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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too would like to know whether this Government co-ordination Cabinet committee met in advance of last night's Cabinet meeting. With regard to the green list, it was very clear that yesterday the Tánaiste acted as a critic of his own Government, or at the very least of his Government colleague, in telling the media it was wrong to send out mixed messages about international travel. In...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I echo all of those sentiments. I would also like the Taoiseach to answer the question in terms of the allowance for the third super junior Minister. Is it true that this legislation will be brought forward, when will that happen and how on earth does the Taoiseach justify it? I ask the Taoiseach please to answer that question this time.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to address my question in respect of super junior Ministers.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Brady. The multi-annual financial framework negotiated every seven years provides member states with the opportunity to point the European Union in a new direction towards a fairer, greener and more equal Europe. The negotiations on this budget have taken place during unprecedented times and they were lengthy. The people of European Union, and indeed the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, we had the debacle around the Government's green list. Its travel advice was, and is, confused and ambiguous and relies on citizens using their best judgment. Personally, I would prefer that nobody travel abroad this year but the fact remains that we have been given advice only, not a firm instruction, much less a legal requirement. Despite this, the Government has taken it upon...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Taoiseach is not suggesting that those 287,000 recipients of the Covid payment are scamming the system or that they qualify as scammers. I would like him to make that very clear. These are people who have lost work and hope to return to work as soon as they possibly can. They are out of work because we are in the throes of a public health emergency. It is the case that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It does feel like the Government is picking on a very particular section of the population. The Taoiseach avoided each and every one of my questions, so let me put a very straightforward question to him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: An individual in receipt of the Covid payment will be penalised by loss of that payment should he or she travel abroad. Will the Taoiseach tell us when that decision was taken and who decided to change the social welfare guidance? Was it the Tánaiste or the Taoiseach and was it discussed at Cabinet? More to the point, will he tell us if he sees fit to end this ludicrous, farcical and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: They were the Taoiseach's words.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I said earlier to the Taoiseach, it is clear that this is blatant discrimination against one section of the population. It is a policy that would penalise them uniquely, not others, for travelling overseas even though the Government's advice is just advice, and confused and ambiguous advice. It is important that the statutory instrument in question is rescinded. There is a motion on the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to record our disappointment at the fact that Government parties have voted to maintain a discriminatory system which penalises people on the Covid payment. That is a disgraceful action, particularly given the public backlash over the €16,000 pay increase for three super junior Ministers. I understand the Taoiseach has been publicly shamed into stepping back from that position...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it true that the Taoiseach's salary, notwithstanding this cut, will be €1,500 higher than that of his predecessor, Deputy Varadkar?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is incorrect.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18794/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020 that the Government is seeking to rush through the Dáil this week is a far cry from the Fianna Fáil new deal for renters that was promised by the Taoiseach just a few months ago. In fact, he and his Government are now moving to allow for rent increases, notices to quit and the misery that will ensue in the heat of a global pandemic....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on the Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [18795/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Following on from my previous question, I am happy to correct my assertion that the Taoiseach's top-up was €50,000. It was, as he correctly stated, €30,000. Will he inform the House at what point he stopped receiving that top-up payment? Will the Taoiseach also tell us what contribution or engagement the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change has had on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [18475/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The allowance of €30,000 can, in fact, be payable to a party of Government. I take it the Taoiseach is not now in receipt of that allowance. Is it fair to say then that he stopped being receipt of that allowance once he received his seal of office from Uachtarán na hÉireann? The Taoiseach might clarify that. On the plan, all of us want to see children back in school...