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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has consulted the Minister for Health following the recent NPHET recommendations; the preparations that are underway within her Department to address any potential impact that an increase in the Delta variant will have in educational settings; the measures that are now being considered to ensure the public health response to Covid- 19...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with schools further to the recent NPHET recommendations to discuss preparations to address any potential impact that an increase in the Delta variant will have on educational settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36458/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has consulted with the Minister for Health following the recent NPHET recommendations; the preparations that are underway within his Department to address any potential impact that an increase in the Delta variant will have in further and higher educational settings; the measures that are now being considered to ensure the public health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with further and higher education institutions further to the recent NPHET recommendations to discuss preparations for addressing any potential impact that an increase in the Delta variant will have on these settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36460/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have made the case to the Taoiseach on countless occasions that the half measures he has introduced to rein in cuckoo funds are woefully inadequate and simply will not work. Apartments, which are perfectly decent homes, are excluded from the Government's plans. This leaves ordinary workers and families, especially in Dublin but in other cities also, at the mercy of these funds that can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Níl sé seo maith go leor. Níl plean an Taoisigh ag obair. Leanfaidh na cistí ar aghaidh leis seo agus tá sé sin náireach. These investment, vulture and cuckoo funds have not been reined in; far from it. The Government facilitates their actions. Not alone does the Government allow them to snap up entire apartment blocks and houses, it incentivises them...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is about big bucks and big funds muscling into the property market with the assistance of the Government and, meanwhile, our citizens, families and communities are left with no real chance to ever buy or own their own homes. The most despicable part of this is that, tonight, the Government will sneakily move this through, using the guillotine, with virtually no debate. It is the same...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is failing and failing miserably.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is failing miserably with its eyes wide open. It is shameful

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach inform us what the final cost of the new national children's hospital will be? Just over €1.4 billion was the amount agreed at Cabinet but it emerged today at a joint committee that, of 900 claims in total, only a handful have been settled. It now seems inevitable that costs will overrun substantially. The committee was unable to get clarity on this point from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [34760/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting of 24 and 25 June 2021. [34761/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [36219/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I extend a very warm welcome to Deputy Bacik. Fáilte mhór agus comhghairdeas. Well done on a very convincing and wonderful victory. She is now the 37th woman in the House and that is good news for all of us. Congratulations to Ivana. We all look forward very much to working with her. Last week, the Taoiseach and his Government forced through an amendment to legislation dealing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Public land should be used for building public housing - social and affordable housing - full stop. The days of Fianna Fáil and its crony friends, the big developers, creaming off at the people’s expense should be over. I would have thought the Taoiseach would have learned that from catastrophes past but perhaps he has not. He is confirming that €1 billion will be spent...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is very clear that the full and safe reopening of the hospitality sector is urgent so that businesses can open, workers can get back to work and people can interact socially once again. Instead of a thought-out orderly plan to make this happen we have, once again, a last minute scramble from the three parties of government to produce legislation that is discriminatory, ill thought-out and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: What we need is a plan to include everyone and not a plan to exclude some. That is fundamentally wrong and flawed and it is wrong to force it through in this rushed manner.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach propose to answer a question rather than make attack points against members of the Opposition? That would be a refreshing change.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put a question to the Taoiseach.