Results 19,841-19,860 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 which was due to be published at the end of 2022; and if he is satisfied that the State is meeting its international legal obligations to children as it has still not ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (21 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the programme for Government commitment to introduce domestic homicide reviews legislation can be delivered as he has yet to publish the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews submitted to him in the summer of 2022; and if he remains committed to the zero tolerance policy as set out in the Third Strategy on...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (23 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay by his Department in completing the report of the review of the Equality Acts (Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015) examining the functioning of the Acts and their effectiveness in combatting discrimination and promoting equality, which was due to be...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (23 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 345. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 23 February 2023, when his Department will issue a reply, given all other Departments have responded in full to the question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14431/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have had a housing crisis for more than a decade and this Government has been in office for three years yet only now a report comes to Cabinet stating what everybody already knew, which is that thousands of homes could be built on public land. For years, we have said that building public homes on public land is the answer to the housing crisis. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil turned a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are not new.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is inaccurate.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Our Bill buys the Government time to do what it needs to do. I said in my initially commentary the demonstrable unanswerable evidence of the Government's absolute failure to provide housing and failure to protect renters is everywhere to be seen and felt. At no time did I say that 4,000 people would find themselves in emergency accommodation, much less 4,000 households, for the simple...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Saying that was an insult to people who the Government will cast into homeless, be they caught in the official figures or not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It would not be difficult to be more compassionate than the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a low bar.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: No. It will be 4,000 homeless families.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is 4,000 homeless families.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is a disgrace.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has no teeth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: She did not actually say that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is now very obvious that the Government is desperately trying to avoid a situation where we will have a straight vote on extending the eviction ban, or not, as proposed by the Sinn Féin Bill. Nothing reflects more the absolute determination, or even desperation, of the Government to go this course more than that. The Taoiseach referred to a reasoned amendment. Has that been...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: So it has not been accepted yet, a Cheann Comhairle.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is high for the Garda.