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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 21 March 2023, if he will confirm that he has submitted the business case and consent request to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform as required regarding a company's (details supplied) approved pension increase as submitted to him in July 2022....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has published the National Council for Special Education policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools submitted to her Department on 12 January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15977/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1122 of 18 January 2023, the new incident types and related offences under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 were configured and deployed to PULSE on 7 February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15846/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The following are the words of Arklow teacher, Aoife Ni Chéileachair, who told her heartbreaking story to the media: I am going to be evicted at the start of the last week of term. It's gotten to the point that I may not be able to take my job up next September because I have nowhere to live in the vicinity. In a few short weeks, she faces eviction from the home she has rented for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The one thing that is absolutely clear is that the Government's failure to rise to the housing emergency is having real and devastating consequences for people's lives. The figures published reflect the fact that the Government missed its target on affordable housing by almost 60%. If the Taoiseach counts that as an achievement, or if he regards that as an acceptable level of performance,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach again to accept that this disaster is looming for these families and do the only quick thing he can do, which is to reinstate the eviction ban and, for God's sake, buy the time the Government clearly needs to get this right and protect these families.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was castigating them for not-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. As we speak, people protest at the gates calling on the Government to ratify and implement the optional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. The Government signed the convention five years ago but despite commitments made, it has still not ratified the optional protocol. This protocol is crucial for people with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the President of the United States. [18061/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Taoiseach. The visit was hugely successful. It was a visit primarily about Ireland and it involved a person with a very deep connection with this country returning home. I for one think we should be gracious about that. Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties and objections we have to wider American foreign policy, let it be said and clearly understood that the US was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [18062/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Children's Rights Alliance recently published its annual report card on progress for children under the current programme for Government. The performance in delivering adequate youth mental health received the lowest grade for a second year in a row. The alliance notes that the Maskey report on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in Kerry, and the Mental Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [14831/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last month the Council of Europe published its annual conclusions assessing member states' compliance with the European Social Charter on labour rights. The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe treaty that guarantees fundamental social and economic rights to member state citizens. Ireland is in breach of nine separate areas of rights relating to workers' terms and conditions of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in power now for more than 12 years. In this time we have seen Government make decision after decision that have escalated the housing crisis into a full-blown emergency. Rents are out of control and a whole generation is locked out of home ownership. Homelessness has reached a record level that we could only have imagined. This is the dire situation seven years after...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The critical distinction between here and the North-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----is that here, public finance is not the issue and there it is. There, the block grant and the Tories are an issue. I do not have the space, a Cheann Comhairle, to elaborate beyond that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government now for 12 years and the Minister has sat at the Cabinet table, if I am correct, for the entirety of that time. When he was the housing Minister there were 5,000 souls, God help them, homeless. There are now 12,000. We have record house prices and record, extortionate rents. We have a Government which brags of its largesse and the billions coming into the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister says the Government has everything sorted. I told him about Eamon, his son and his three children. I told him about Margaret, her daughter and her two children. I told him about Colm. These are real people who have nowhere to go, unless I am mistaken and the Minister actually has an answer to that. I put it to the Minister again. For families who will face eviction, where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: You believe in neither.