Results 18,581-18,600 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Tánaiste expressed his frustration with the Government's slow rate of progress in accelerating plans and ambitions for renewable electricity and new fuels such as green hydrogen. If the programme for Government's commitments are to be realised, a Government-led hydrogen strategy is urgent. We can lead from the front on green hydrogen. This is the view of public and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment will next meet. [5959/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Oireachtas social protection committee published its report last week in response to the Commission on Pensions. It recommends no further increases to the qualifying age for State pensions, which is welcome. Workers should be entitled to retire with a pension at 65 if they so choose. The committee also supports the recommendation to allow workers to retire at 65 once they achieve the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Good pay is the best way out of low pay. Low-paid workers are employed. It would be desperate if the record was so skewed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [4718/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: First, I welcome the establishment of the Citizens' Assemblies on the directly elected mayor for Dublin and biodiversity. However, I have raised previously with the Taoiseach the fact that key agencies such as the National Biodiversity Data Centre are underfunded and understaffed. They are not even underpinned by legislation. That needs to be sorted out as a matter of urgency. Equally...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 148. To ask the Taoiseach when the evaluation of the way Ireland handled the Covid-19 pandemic will commence; the person or body that will oversee the process; the timeframe within which this work will be carried out; the mechanism by which the public, community and voluntary sector will contribute to the process; and if this work will be conducted in public. [5995/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (8 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE received an instruction from his Department on 24 June 2021 to suspend the funding allocation for operational and administrative funding to the North Inner-City Drugs and Alcohol Taskforce; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that this instruction was not communicated to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Two reports that came out today are damning of the Government’s housing policy. The latest rental report from daft.ieshows that rip-off rents were up another staggering 10% in the final three months of last year. New figures also reveal that cuckoo funds, courtesy of sweetheart tax deals provided by the Government, massively outbid ordinary house buyers for family homes and then rent...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does not need to do any kind of deep dive just to come across these figures. A rent of €1,500 or €2,000 per month is simply unaffordable. It seems that he does not actually understand what is happening. He seems to be suggesting the funds build the houses in question; they do not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: They acquire them, and they do so by outbidding ordinary families and workers who simply want to purchase a home and put a roof over their heads. That is what is happening. Does the Taoiseach know what his policy is doing? It is making a bad situation worse. It is demonstrating that the wrong kind of supply can actually make the situation worse. The average renters find themselves in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: It does.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Apartments-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Apartments are homes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is about affordable supply and the right supply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: A survey conducted by SIPTU has found that 41% of childcare professionals are actively seeking a job in another sector. It also found that childcare managers have indicated major difficulties in the recruitment of staff. This should not come as a shock to the Government because early years professionals are very poorly paid and their conditions are in need of massive improvement. Indeed,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [4719/22]