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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Could I also extend a welcome to the lads from Portlaoise. Fáilte. It is great to see them here. I am glad that the Taoiseach recognises that there has been a succession of hikes in mortgage interest rates. Some people are paying a rate of 8% and there are further hikes in prospect. I am sure the Taoiseach does not contest that. The ECB will meet on Thursday week. For mortgage...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for the tens of thousands of households that are struggling to pay their mortgage?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: According to FLAC and to MABS, they now run the risk of arrears-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and real hardship. What is the Taoiseach's answer if he does not like ours?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Actually it is Michael now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the autumn.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: So Macra is wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [18063/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The 2016 programme for Government committed to tackling child poverty and preventing family and youth homelessness. Earlier this year, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reported serious concern about the large number of children in Ireland living in poverty, food insecurity and homelessness. The hurt and trauma for homeless children and young people was documented by the Ombudsman...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [18129/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We extend a warm welcome to Shauna and Eve from Ardee Community School. They are in transition year and doing work experience, unfortunately for them, with Deputy Ó Murchú. I am sure they will be well able for him. The coalition parties present themselves as champions of homeownership. However, as NESC has documented, there has been a major shift towards rental and away from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Every sector in the State is calling on the Government to ramp up social and affordable housing targets-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to protect and future-proof our society. Will the Taoiseach finally listen to them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are only two questioners on this item.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can read.

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-East Inner City Initiative (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Before rolling out this approach, the first thing that needs to happen is a review of the north-east inner city initiative. I raised this with the Taoiseach's predecessor. I have been asking for a long time that progress be measured to establish what works and what does not work. The approaches that are established to have worked should be extended as other Deputies have suggested. We...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: This month marks - I apologise, I was about to read the Tánaiste's speech back to him. Gabh mo leithscéal. That would have been quite a turn.

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, it was the Taoiseach's speech I was about to read; it was not actually the Tánaiste's speech. Some 25 years ago, the signing of the Good Friday Agreement transcended the past and changed the future for us all. After more than three decades of a terrible conflict, the agreement delivered a peace that had looked impossible. It ushered in a new era of hope, opportunity and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Reviews (27 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 342. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 21 January 2023, when he will publish findings of the consultation to examine the functioning and effectiveness of the Equality Acts, which was expected early this year. [20147/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ashbourne Community School is with us in the Gallery. It is very welcome. As we speak, hundreds of nurses are meeting in Killarney in the middle of a prolonged and ongoing crisis in our hospitals. The health service is on its knees and has been for many years now. There is overcrowding on our hospital corridors, waiting lists are out of control and staff are exhausted and demoralised....