Results 19,101-19,120 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----of a roof over their heads. Yet, we come in here-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----week in and week out and listen to this rubbish from a Government that is failing. I ask the Minister the direct question.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the face of the ESRI report, which is just the latest evidence of this catastrophe, does the Government still contend that it is getting it right because it very clearly is not?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Big bucks for developers.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has failed.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has failed.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Like Croí Cónaithe and €140,000 for developers.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amendments to the Local Government Acts he intends to progress to provide for maternity leave for councillors. [35452/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a statutory instrument will be enacted before the 2022 summer recess enabling An Garda Síochána to share its material with the Kenova and Denton Operations. [35485/22]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last month, President Michael D. Higgins described the housing crisis as a disaster. I believe that he gave voice to the hard realities faced by those desperately struggling to put an affordable roof over their heads because when people cannot afford a home, it does not just stop there; it has wide-reaching and deep consequences for our society. Today we read that schools in Dublin...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I set out for the Taoiseach a story that I think is very worrying. The teachers' unions are expressing alarm over the fact that teachers are relocating from Dublin because they cannot afford to live here. They cannot afford the rents. They cannot afford to get a mortgage. These are the facts on the ground. I asked the Taoiseach whether he shared concerns about this. I asked him what is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes but I asked the Taoiseach about teachers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am well aware of that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. Well, any answer, whether in 30 seconds or two seconds, would be great.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have raised with the Taoiseach many times the real stress on families now with the costs of getting children back to school in September. I have also acknowledged that it is welcome that the back to school allowance has been increased by €100. We also ask that this allowance be extended. Many middle-income families are struggling badly, and they will not qualify for one red cent....
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: We could all meet on Bere Island.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [24326/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The horrific outcomes of sub-standard Celtic-tiger building practices and the widespread use of blocks and backfill with deleterious materials such as pyrite, mica and pyrrhotite remain with us today. Last week, we witnessed in the Chamber the heartbreak and devastation of families let down by the Government's substandard defective blocks legislation, but today I want to raise the issue of a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. [25802/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth first contacted the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach seeking an investigation into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation report in January 2021. We have subsequently raised the outcome of this investigation on a number of occasions but to no avail. The...