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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Focus Ireland's Best Interest of the Child campaign is being launched today, as the Taoiseach knows. Legislation published by the charity places an obligation on local authorities to take the best interests of the child into account when working with families who present as homeless. As the charity has highlighted, despite all the evidence of the harm that homelessness does to children,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: In its interim report, the commission noted that the State Claims Agency provides it with considerable assistance with witnesses' costs applications. Indeed, the agency is a significant entity in terms of purchasing legal services. It was previously reported that the State Claims Agency the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, had all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also asked about the equitable briefing policy and the failure of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and other offices to sign off.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [20324/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will have to agree to differ with Deputy Ó Murchú on some of that. Two years ago, the European Commission sought to block a citizens' initiative calling for the EU to regulate commercial transactions with illegal settlements. This wrongful act was nullified by the European Court of Justice. Last month, the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions unanimously agreed that the...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Carthy. We mark the 73rd anniversary of the signing of the historic Schuman Declaration at a time of great challenge for Europe and the world. The last three years have tested the resilience, togetherness and solidarity of the peoples of Europe in profound ways. A perfect storm of crises came in the shape of a global pandemic, a soaring cost-of-living and...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach well knows, food costs are crippling ordinary workers and families. Price hike after price hike has hit people's pockets hard. There is no sign of these costs coming down. Inflation in Irish supermarkets is at the highest level ever recorded, with the past three months alone seeing food inflation soar by up to 16.6%. The average shopper is set to see their annual grocery...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fáilte roimh gach duine from the Banner. We also have people here from Indiana in the US and others. They are very welcome. I have made the case to the Taoiseach – I hope he has heard what I am saying – that a meeting with the sector, while welcome, is not enough in and of itself. A message to the sector asking it to bring costs down is welcome but that equally is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: At dawn on Sunday, Israeli forces arrived at a primary school in Jubbet ad-Dhib, a village in the occupied West Bank. They proceeded to bulldoze the EU-funded school building to the ground. In the aftermath, we saw the heartbreaking image of children as young as six sifting through the rubble for their schoolbooks. The demolition of Palestinian schools is a terrifying feature of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the North Sea Summit. [20297/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the HIV and AIDS national monument will be installed in the People's Park. [21069/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of the new special school in Dublin 7. [21085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special school in Dublin 7 will open; and when parents can enrol their children. [21086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 442. 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 Justice and Equality: Child Protection (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1099 of 21 March 2023, when he will introduce the second stage of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022; and the interim measures he will take to ensure that the State is meeting its international legal obligations to children as it has still not ratified...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Workers and families are struggling and families are struggling to keep up with sharp increases in grocery costs and households are being fleeced, day in and day out. Food price hikes have hit people's pockets hard and still show no sign of coming down. Last week, the Government met food retailers and the Taoiseach said the Government would have a very stark message to deliver. In...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last year, when costs at the pumps were skyrocketing, nobody was scaremongering. That was a reality that every person experienced when going to fill his or her vehicle. The Minister and I are in agreement. I do my weekly shop as well. We see with our own eyes, do we not, the evidence of increased costs. It is an absolute disaster for people on small or fixed incomes. People are really...