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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has circulated an instruction to local authorities to cease call and collect public library services for the duration of the current level 5 restrictions. [32926/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1592. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of data protection breaches identified within her Department in 2019. [33851/20]

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday afternoon the Taoiseach told the Dáil that he accepted Deputy Leo Varadkar's version of events regarding his leaking of a confidential document to his friend when he was Taoiseach. Yesterday evening Deputy Leo Varadkar, now Tánaiste and leader of Fine Gael, came to the Dáil to give his explanation of why he leaked this confidential and sensitive document to a...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: May I again make it clear that I wish to see all the documentation? I am not surmising there is a vast quantity of it. On the contrary, I am asserting that there is very little documentation because the basis for the explanation that the Taoiseach, astonishingly, accepts from the Tánaiste is that he was acting in the public interest and on the basis of a deep and enduring level of...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is my view. I ask the Taoiseach again what he proposes to do. Will he ask the people simply to take all of this on the chin? Deputy Leo Varadkar's alibi was comprehensively dismantled on the floor of the Dáil. It bears no credibility.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the Taoiseach going to do? What contact will he have with a man who has told the House that he routinely leaks from the Cabinet? Is that okay with the Taoiseach?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Pathetic.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No danger of that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach threatening me?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No danger of the Taoiseach-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Incorrect information has been entered into the record of the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to address the ban on the sale of essential clothing for children, which has caused a lot of stress and distress for families throughout the State. We are heading into a very cold winter. Children grow and they need new coats and shoes. Parents across the land are frustrated that they have no option but to buy online. That suits some people but it certainly does not suit many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [31755/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach is aware, five more people experiencing homelessness died last week. These deaths were not only tragic, they may have been avoidable. So far, 50 people have died this year. This means that by year end the number of people experiencing homelessness who have died on our streets will have doubled in 2020. Does the Taoiseach agree that this alarming increase in deaths...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the course of the debate on the legislation, the Minister was advised that his position was wrong. He was challenged on that point and advised that European law and instruments had primacy over the 2004 Act that he was citing. That went in one ear and out the other. It alarms me that the House was misled and that there were repeated public policy statements about sealing an archive for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue coordination unit of his Department. [33559/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (4 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: A number of fundamentals have to be right for social dialogue to be successful. First, the processes, custom, practice and expected standards applied to interactions between the State and others should be understood, respected and adhered to. That means, for example, handing a confidential document to one of one's buddies because one is the Taoiseach and can do so, is not a solid foundation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Taoiseach will join with me in sending our sympathies to the Palestinian people on the loss of Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who died this morning. He was a great advocate for peace, stability and a homeland for the Palestinian people. The world is a poorer place for the loss of him. Joe Biden was elected as the next President of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Notwithstanding all of the difficulties that have presented in the course of this process, there is no doubt that a deal is still possible. If good sense is to prevail then there will be a deal but of course we cannot be certain of any of that. That is why I have raised this issue with the Taoiseach today. There are many issues on which the Oireachtas will divide, that is in the nature of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Safe Ireland has published new data on first-time contacts with domestic violence services for the first six months of this pandemic and the study's findings are very alarming. Three and a half thousand women and just under 600 children sought support and safety from abuse and coercive control for the first time. Helpline calls to services also increased by 25% between March and August,...