Results 18,121-18,140 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is not answering the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is more bad news today for renters as the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, calculator reflects that rent inflation now stands at 4.3%. This is at a time when rents are extortionate and at a time when many younger people will now weigh up their options and decide whether to stay or to go once the Covid restrictions lift. It is a disgrace the Government did not show up for renters....
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is disputed.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government does not want to.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Rents there are nothing like they are here.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has no answers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [47861/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach might inform us as to when those sector-specific guidelines will be agreed and when the concerns and the confusion of those engaged in the night-time economy will be addressed, in order that their minds can be put to rest. I want to also raise with the Taoiseach the Owenacurra Centre in Midleton, County Cork, which closed its short-term respite and mental health day care...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [47862/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The families of Dara Fitzpatrick, Mark Duffy, Paul Ormsby, and Ciarán Smith, the brave crew killed when Rescue 116 crashed on a rescue mission in 2017, face significant legal bills as a result of the Department of Transport's review of the accident. The review was taken after the helicopter operator, CHC Ireland, challenged the report into the crash. The family hired legal teams...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [45168/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: An investigation undertaken by Noteworthy.ie during the summer found that in comparison to other countries, the Government here is not spending enough on protecting Ireland's under-threat biodiversity. A 2020 study of biodiversity financing in Ireland raised concern that the key agencies charged with biodiversity protection are underfunded and understaffed to fulfil their remit. I previously...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: EU leaders are meeting this week at another crucial period for the protocol. It has never been more important that the North has a voice in Europe. On Monday, Assembly Members in the North backed a motion calling for direct dialogue between the Assembly and the European Parliament. Sinn Féin has consistently raised the need for continued representation of the North at an EU level...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (19 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative measures required to ensure that all offences under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography can be prosecuted on an organised and transnational basis in line with Article 3.1 of the protocol. [50918/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (19 Oct 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: 704. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 10 October 2021, the reason a proposed review of an error in a case involving the non-processing of an appeal from a District Court conviction in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, a submission for which was approved by her on 15 May 2019, did not ultimately proceed. [51067/21]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The cost of living is out of control. Workers and families are at breaking point as they struggle to keep up with sky-high bills. Their quality of life, their ability to plan for their future and their mental health are now really suffering. People are fleeced with extortionate rents and rip-off insurance costs. Childcare fees are the equivalent of a second mortgage, the price of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach cited external factors such as Brexit, Covid and the global energy market, but failed to answer the straightforward question I asked him. He has done nothing to alleviate the hardship that Siobhan, Alison and Kevin are experiencing. In fact, in the budget he did nothing for renters. He proposed to freeze unaffordable childcare fees at their current extortionate rate, and he...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about VAT on energy bills?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no each-way bet.