Results 19,621-19,640 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are approaching the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin's barbaric and illegal invasion of Ukraine. It is important that we once again extend our solidarity to all of those fleeing the horrendous bloodshed. Everything that can be done must be done to bring to an end this cruel and senseless war. As a neutral country, we can play a unique role in advocating for peace and dialogue to end...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for an organisation (details supplied) to travel to a competition. [4271/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (31 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates on which his officials engaged in preliminary discussions on a possible compensation scheme for Moore Street traders; and what other public and private bodies or organisations were represented at those discussion. [4734/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (31 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020. [4033/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (31 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options that are available to a person (details supplied) when their stamp 1 visa expires. [4319/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (31 Jan 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 805. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a community centre (details supplied) did not receive capital investment. [3969/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hello to everyone from Ballymun in the Visitors Gallery. Yesterday he Taoiseach admitted to the Dáil that he was, in fact, briefed on Government legal strategy on nursing home charges. This was 24 hours after he stated that he was not involved in the strategy and sought to put distance between himself and it. Not only did he admit he was briefed and that his predecessors and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach expressed incredulity at what was suggested. Here are his words so that I am not accused of misrepresenting or misquoting him. The allegation here is very clear. It is that four or five Governments, four or five Attorneys General, any number of Ministers and former Ministers, some of whom are now in the Government and some in the Opposition, and dozens of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is exactly what happened. It happened in respect of preventing those who had been illegally charged in nursing homes from going to court, having the matter adjudicated and getting their money back. It also happened in respect of these citizens who, by the way, were entitled to that allowance. It was illegal. It was judged to have been ultra vires, illegal, for the State to deny those...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the care for people? Where is there evidence of a government standing up for people rather than facing them down-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----many of them in the most vulnerable circumstances imaginable in society?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy was the same.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The State settles before the case goes to trial.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: We cannot protect the past by attacking the vulnerable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy is the same.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and his Cabinet colleagues were advised in a secret memo in 2011 that the withholding of the disabled persons maintenance allowance from people with disabilities was illegal. In the words of the memo circulated to the Taoiseach and the Government, the regulations were "plainly ultra viresand void". The State had not, as the Taoiseach said, a leg to stand on and, therefore, a...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, though.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, was he not?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is all in the one memo.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [4087/23]