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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is talking down the clock. Can I have an answer?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has not answered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked the Taoiseach a straight question that he has refused to answer.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The recent meeting of the European Council provided leaders with a prime opportunity to address the cost of living crisis and in particular the skyrocketing energy bills that have hammered workers and families for more than a year now. For more than five months, Sinn Féin has been calling on the Government to engage with the European Commission to cut VAT on these extortionate bills....

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Deputy got a lot in there.

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis an Uachtarán Zelenskyy as ucht a óráid ar maidin. I want to extend our deep appreciation and gratitude to President Zelenskyy for his address on this historic day. I want to acknowledge the presence of the diplomatic corps, but in particular, our friend, Ambassador Gerasko, and her staff. I want to pay them a particular...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Appointments (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 145. To ask the Taoiseach if a selection board will be convened by the Public Appointments Service and a shortlisting process carried out by an independent chairperson when filling the forthcoming vacancy in the position of Secretary General to the Government and Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach; and if not, the reason the procedures applied to the recruitment of the most...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 560. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to allocate or increase resources to community organisations in an area (details supplied) that are currently delivering services and supports and those who wish to deliver services and supports to persons in the community who have fled from Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 561. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are being provided in an area (details supplied) by his Department to persons in the community who have fled from Ukraine; if this will include holistic supports to children and young persons who may need specialist supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18212/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 562. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that will be undertaken to integrate children, young persons, young adults and families who have fled from Ukraine into communities in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18213/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 976. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports that are available to a social enterprise (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [18220/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The days of the mass harvesting of turf are over. This is best underscored by the fact that Bord na Móna has moved from its traditional brown peat business to become a leading and profitable champion of renewables. The Government's proposed outright ban on the sale of turf has caused real distress and frustration for rural communities. The proposal is unfair, unworkable and should not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did you not know that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, fair and balanced debate means we have to stick to the fact. The fact is nothing has been done in respect of home heating oil. That is a fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not attribute falsehoods to me by advancing a falsehood of your own. The cost of home heating oil has more than doubled in the past year and the Government has done nothing to intervene. In fact, its proposed course of action will drive the cost of home heating oil up further.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: To return to the turf ban-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach accepts what I have said. He has accepted that the ban as proposed by the Minister, Deputy Ryan, is utterly wrong and utterly unfair and will leave people in rural Ireland, particularly older people and people on lower incomes in a really difficult place. I invite the Taoiseach again to clarify that there will be no ban and that the proposed ban, whether it is the finished...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Taoiseach is not prepared to do that, I remind his backbenchers they will have the opportunity to take their stand this evening by voting in favour of the Sinn Féin motion that proposes the ditching, stopping and halting of this proposed ban in its entirety. That is what we need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is turf.