Results 19,861-19,880 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fifty-eight schools in dire need of new buildings, many of which were due to go to tender or construction, have been told that the vital projects are on hold again. Many of these school communities have been waiting for decades. In my own constituency, Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire campaigned for 20 years for its new building. It was at the final stage of the process when it received the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [14827/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and EU division within his Department. [14828/23]

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has now been in power for 12 years. For seven of those years, it has been joined at the hip to Fianna Fáil. On its watch we have gone from housing crisis to housing emergency to housing disaster. The policies Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have implemented together over the course of the last decade have brought us to where we are today. They have followed an agenda that...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá ag teipeadh glan ar an Rialtas seo maidir le tithíocht. Ba cheart dó imeacht. In ainm Dé, tá ár bpobal i mbarr a gcéille agus iad ar son tithe atá slán agus ar fáil ar phraghas réasúnta. Tá daoine i mbarr a gcéille agus iad ar son na hathraithe. Is Rialtas Shinn Féin amháin a réiteoidh an...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Now is the time for others to be given the chance to show what we can do. It is time for change. The longer Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael remain in Government, the more damage they will do. We need a general election and the sooner, the better.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, you are not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Sinn Féin Bill before the Dáil is one last chance to stop thousands from losing their homes. Our legislation to extend the eviction ban buys the Government the time needed to use emergency powers to create necessary capacity and safety nets for vulnerable renters. The Bill, based on the Government's own legislation passed last October, will protect those facing eviction and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know for sure that lifting the eviction ban means the prospect of homelessness for thousands of people, and the Taoiseach knows that too. I know too their fears, their worry, their anxiety, and I know that amplifying that fact, amplifying that experience, is not in the least bit exploitative. As a matter of fact, those who face the prospect of homelessness in a matter of days expect us to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is simply not true. Have we not spent the last weeks and months, and has the Taoiseach not spent them, lamenting the fact that we are losing landlords, that we are losing capacity in the private rental sector? I ask the Taoiseach to answer this question again, and this time to try to answer it straight: where will people go? My appeal has fallen on deaf ears, it seems. We will have a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Could the Taoiseach stop forcing people into homelessness? That is more in his line.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The independent review into violence and harassment in the Defence Forces published shocking findings yesterday, for example, that women were barely tolerated and many were subjected to harassment, bullying and assault, including rape. Decades on from some of these incidents, the devastating effects for women are still felt. We all agree that brave women who join our Defence Forces to serve...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [12972/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [12443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the emergency measures he will take to address the significant backlog of applications to An Bord Pleanála, which has resulted in the agency failing to decide on nearly two-thirds of current applications within the statutory timeframe. [15227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €5 million allocated from NAMA in 2014 for the development of a heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15272/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €12.7 million in funding allocated by his Department for the interpretation stage for the heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15273/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not included a national action plan to address female genital mutilation in the Third Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, as called for by the National Steering Committee on FGM. [15213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 647. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 recognition payment will be paid to a qualified person (details supplied) who has supplied their information as requested in November 2022. [14792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 708. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department's review of the rationale for the disclosure of counselling notes as part of court proceedings, including a victim or survivor perspective, commenced in July 2022 will be completed. [15215/23]