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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are very real.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach did not answer the questions.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is wrong.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: This budget comes at a time when our people are struggling with the most serious cost-of-living crisis in 40 years. The challenges households face are reminiscent of those that people faced in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Families find it very hard to make it to the end of the week. Soaring energy bills and motor fuel costs, extortionate rents and sharp increases in the price of food have...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Instead, the budget continues the cycle of failure that is the hallmark of this Government. It entirely misses the big picture. It has no answers to the big questions in housing, health and in the cost of living. It shows that the Government is not prepared to do what must be done to protect households really in the here and now and that it has no plan for a future in which all of our...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no progress to be found in the budget measures for social and affordable housing. There is no increase in capital spending, no increase to the paltry targets the Government has missed time and again, and no credible action plan to stem record homelessness. In this budget the Government blatantly ignores the lived experiences of a generation locked out of affordable housing as the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of public order units operating across each of the six Garda divisions in Dublin from 2017 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [47364/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of public order units operating full-time across each of the six Garda divisions in Dublin from 2017 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [47365/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each of the public order units operating across each of the six Garda divisions in Dublin from 2017 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [47366/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to scrap the Government's concrete block levy. The proposal is flawed and will make the housing crisis even worse. The Taoiseach says the levy is to ensure that industry contributes to redress schemes for defective blocks and pyrite. However, the reality is that this is not a levy on the industry at all. The Government's scheme is really a levy on those desperately...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: With pleasure, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome our visitors from Ballyhaunis Community School. Fáilte isteach gach duine. The Taoiseach would be more Animal Farm than 1984, some being more equal than others and none more unequally treated than that generation I have described to him who are locked out of home ownership, and well he knows it. Yes, industry has to pay. By the way,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have a serious mental health crisis in Ireland. Communities and families are crying out for help. Front-line services and voluntary organisations are crying out for support. It is not an exaggeration to say that we face into a tsunami in mental health need, not least because of the pandemic. We know that children and young people are left waiting for far too long for mental healthcare....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to revisit this before the finance Bill comes before the Dáil.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [43923/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The annual Education at a Glance report published by the OECD found that Ireland's investment in education as a percentage of GDP is ranked lowest in the OECD. That is the reality. As regards the teaching unions, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, has warned that schools are in urgent need of a significant increase in funding. Similarly, the Teachers Union of Ireland,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [43924/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: A recent national port study published by Wind Energy Ireland found that Belfast Harbour is the only port on the island ready to construct offshore wind farms. The sector has repeatedly warned the Government that it cannot build 7 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030 from a single port. The opportunity that renewable energy affords our island in terms energy security, affordability and job...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the British Prime Minister. [48036/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Whatever about a change in tone from the British Administration, which of course is welcome after six years of Brexit uncertainty and two years of threats to break international law, what intervention will the Government undertake in respect of the protocol legislation? It was championed in the first instance by Liz Truss and I understand it is to go to a second reading in the House of Lords...