Results 19,801-19,820 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the rollout and processing of the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment to eligible non-HSE/Section 38 healthcare employees (details supplied) covered by the Government; the number of payments that have been made by HSE and a company to date; and the number awaiting processing for payment. [11095/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government plans to lift the eviction ban in ten days. If it does this, where are the working families, single people and pensioners at risk of losing their homes meant to go? This question has been put to the Taoiseach repeatedly and those people still wait for an answer. Without putting any measures in place, the Government intends to remove this protection for renters during an...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: When Deputy Varadkar re-entered the office of Taoiseach in December he said housing would be his priority. Now his first major housing decision is to put thousands of renters at risk of losing their homes. With his eyes wide open, the Taoiseach intends to lift the eviction ban knowing that it will spell disaster for so many. It will mean people losing their homes. It will mean some...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: To protect renters, we need an extension of the eviction ban and we need Government pace and ambition. As a matter of fact, we need a new Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That much is evidently clear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it will not. Continuing in Government will make the situation worse.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do your work.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is sitting on its hands.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach presides over a homeless catastrophe. We have 12,000 homeless people, more than 3,000 of whom are children. Some 3,000 eviction notices will fall due in April. What is an acceptable level of homelessness? Will the Taoiseach tell us where those 3,000 households will go in the event of losing the roof over their heads? Will the Taoiseach guarantee to this House that no family...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [12441/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Agreement on the protocol between the European Union and the British Government has been secured. The negotiations are over and the deal has been struck. The majority of people, political parties and business interests in the North want the Executive to be restored and those who were elected almost a year ago to get back to the business of governing. The Withdrawal Agreement Joint...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [10768/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Friends of the Earth research has established serious problems with the Government's retrofitting and energy efficiency programmes, which include waiting lists of up to three years for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's free home energy upgrades for lower income households. According to the report, "Government policy on energy poverty is lacking in scale and ambition, with a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [11070/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The well-being framework tells us that the number of people experiencing discrimination in Ireland is rising. It is important to acknowledge this reality today as we mark International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Analysis commissioned by the Higher Education Authority, HEA, in 2021 found that more than a third of minority ethnic third level staff were subjected to...
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is rubbish.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are evicting people.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: We do not have to.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister really?
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister inform them of where they should go when they lose their home?