Results 16,641-16,660 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish a unit in his Department to co-ordinate social dialogue. [15951/20]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to get more detail from the Taoiseach in respect of the way this unit will be configured. What are its precise objectives? Could he expand on this model of sectoral engagement? What will it consist of and what will be its modalities? It would be very helpful to get a sense of how this unit will engage with the Tánaiste in terms of his ministerial responsibilities. For...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. I am sure he can understand the anxiety of workers who now no longer enjoy the protection of SEOs and their desire for absolute clarity on the protections afforded to them. Can the Taoiseach state in a very straightforward way for the record of the Dáil what the interim protections for those workers are? More generally, on the area of social dialogue itself,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I too would like to hear a very clear answer to those questions in respect of the health funding. Given that we are in the throes of a global pandemic and a public health emergency, it is extraordinary that moneys promised for a health programme would vanish like snow off a ditch, it seems, and we need to know what position the Taoiseach took on that. I would also like a clearer answer...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: When we think of the difficulties that were experienced across the European Union and beyond in respect of the provision of personal protective equipment, PPE, and the really harrowing scenes we saw in hospitals - I am thinking of northern Italy, where it was a race for ventilators - and reflecting on the fact that many Italians, understandably, took the view that the European Union did not...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I need a point to be clarified.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach will be aware that earlier this year the Israeli and US Administrations announced an intention to further annex the West Bank and East Jerusalem by seizing an additional 30% of that landmass after 1 July. The Taoiseach will be very well aware that this would hollow out the existing state of Palestine. It would fatally damage any remaining prospect of a sustainable two-state...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I suggest that we finish out the Palestinian conversation and then Deputy Boyd Barrett gets his questions answered?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not strictly in accordance with Standing Orders, but how and ever.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Quite irrespective of what anybody on Capitol Hill might think, and our position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is well recorded and fully understood everywhere, the fact is that we have the power here to recognise the state of Palestine. As the Taoiseach knows, that matter was settled and agreed by the Oireachtas six years ago. I am saying to him to do it, and to do it while there...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is dishonest.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Very little is being done with our clout internationally.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should do his job and not worry about Capitol Hill. He should worry about here and what is done here in the name of the Irish people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach cannot change American policy, he can change Irish policy.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 48. To ask the Taoiseach if he will undertake to have his diaries published on his Department website on a monthly basis. [16916/20]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 49. To ask the Taoiseach the divisional structure of his Department [16917/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to produce safe travel guidance for public transport users in view of the introduction of regulations for the mandatory wearing of face coverings on public transport which came into effect on 13 July 2020 under the Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (Face Coverings on Public Transport)...