Results 16,801-16,820 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [22355/20]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the third time, I am asking the Taoiseach to set out what Electric Ireland told him when he contacted them. I raised this issue around energy bills, which is of massive concern.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach told me earlier that he had been in touch with Electric Ireland. This is the third occasion I am asking him to clarify what it said to him, what commitments it made and so on. I also note that the Ombudsman for Children has published its annual report today. It is raising specific concerns about mental health policy and provision for children and young people. I want to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: They do not want it though.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have acknowledged that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Department needs to do it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: James Connolly also accurately predicted the carnival of reaction that partition would give rise to. Tragically, we have seen that play out over generations. We are very fortunate to live in these times as we have a democratic pathway and international agreements that provide a framework for the kinds of things that the Taoiseach has described, such as creating that sense of participation,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then the Taoiseach should clarify his remarks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to clarify what he said. If I am wrong, put me right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to clarify his position.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that in all its parts?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was asked a question. He is the Head of Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: For Christ's sake. Talk about touchy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Unbelievable.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is the one being utterly divisive and rude.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Restrictions for Dublin city and county were announced on Friday, including restrictions on bars and restaurants banning indoor dining. This particular measure came as a shock. People did not see it coming. According to the Restaurants Association of Ireland it has resulted in tens of thousands of workers being laid off. It is now clear that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The facts are these: we are now living with an ongoing crisis, there are tens of thousands of people who have not worked since March and there are thousands across the city and county of Dublin who got laid off on Friday. The very idea of reducing the payment for these workers at a time when interventions for public health are being made is absolutely extraordinary. The payment of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: "Some constitutional complication" is now null and void, as demonstrated from Friday when emergency provisions were reinstated in the city. The Taoiseach knows full well he can reinstate the full ban on evictions and notices to quit.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: If he has read the evidence, he will know the initiative had a huge effect on dampening down homelessness numbers at the time in question. The Taoiseach should support working families and do the right thing.