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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...on the deal for the new national maternity hospital. Instead of securing a clean-cut transaction where the site will come into public ownership, the deal ensures the hospital will have a private landlord under a very convoluted ownership model. This is the wrong decision. It falls short of protecting the State's proposed investment of between €800 million and €1 billion of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put it to the Taoiseach again that we work together to move from this convoluted leasing arrangement to simply a gifting of this land to the State so that we have a public first-class centre of excellence for women, publicly built on public land.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Land Acquisition (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 404. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is provision in law that would allow a person to be excluded from purchasing land public or private on the open market on the grounds that they do not reside in the county in which the land is being sold. [17484/14]

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the Dáil speaks with one voice. Today, we condemn the illegal and ongoing annexation, the illegal seizure of Palestinian lands by the Israeli occupier. Today, we condemn the illegal displacement of Palestinian families and communities from their homes and from their land. Today, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and assert their inalienable right to their...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: We now have a white elephant, as people have said. The Department is obviously figuring out what it will do with the land. I would like to know the position in this regard. The land is an asset acquired by the State and it is not being used for anything. It is serviced land and has cost a fortune. What is the process in this regard? Can something or anything be salvaged from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (4 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach mentioned the report, Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland's Broken System. It is a welcome piece of work which includes a number of very welcome recommendations such as building affordability into policies designed to increase the supply of housing, starting with land and rental costs; using publicly owned land to increase the supply of housing;...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (17 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has responsibility for a parcel of land (details supplied) in Dublin 22; why the legal process initiated by South Dublin County Council a number of years ago to acquire the lands by way of a deed of waiver has not yet been completed; and if he will expedite this transfer, as a matter of urgency. [40260/15]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...way to deal with this issue. The Government proposes to invest between €800 million and €1 billion of taxpayers’ money in building a new and much-needed national maternity hospital. It simply makes sense that the land on which that hospital is to be built is owned by the State. This means a very clean transaction whereby the land is transferred directly to the State....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Far too many Irish women have paid far too high a price. So the new national maternity hospital is absolutely vital for the delivery of modern, progressive healthcare for women in Ireland and everybody wants to see this hospital built and built quickly. But we also have to get it right. Yesterday, the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, brought a memo to the Cabinet seeking the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, an overwhelming majority of Dublin city councillors, including some colleagues of the Taoiseach, voted against transferring public land to a private developer. The councillors took a stand for public housing on public land to meet social and affordable need. They know this is the only way to tackle this city's overwhelming housing crisis. The proposal for Oscar Traynor Road in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: General Scheme of Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Pre-legislative Scrutiny (8 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...? Different financial thresholds are given, one of which I have just read out. Why was that figure of €2,600 chosen? Head 5 also refers to "any estate or interest the public official has in land (other than a family home) in excess of €10,000". Why was that figure chosen? How was the figure of €13,000 reached in the next paragraph, which refers to "any...

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Over the years land continued to get more expensive and a small number of developers grew in size and capacity. Huge amounts of EU Structural Funds landed in the coffers for massive road building projects and the like and gradually the golden circle was completed. Colleagues on the Fianna Fáil benches will not simply eradicate more than 60 years of sponsored cronyism with a single Bill no...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: How can the Government talk about a neutral budget as it prepares to land this unjust tax on citizens and families? How is it neutral to land an additional bill on the doormat? How is it neutral to ask families who are just keeping their heads above water to pay yet another bill? Is it neutral to ask families, who are in financial distress and struggling to keep a roof over their heads, to...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Street and develop a monstrous shopping mall on Ó Connell Street. Is the Minister aware that these backroom deals involved gross misuse of the compulsory purchase order process to the advantage of one developer, Chartered Land, which at the time was not even the registered owner of the lands in question? Will the Government call for full disclosure from Dublin City Council...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is either not investigated at all or is inadequately investigated. That is at the heart of this. It is very important, without naming names or giving any details, to establish if the information landed on the Revenue's desk and, while it was read with interest, was considered already to have been known and officials were on top of it. Alternatively, did the information land on the...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of Ministers Shatter and Fitzgerald in respect of the State's obligation to protect fully our children. We demand of the church or any other private institution that they respect the laws of the land. We have to be very sure that the laws of the land are robust and are implemented. In that respect, when we come back in the autumn, I ask that the child welfare and protection agency Bill,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Undoubtedly, all the documentation, the publication of which I welcome, will be studied, scrutinised and considered very carefully. However, I raised with the Taoiseach the ownership of the land and he has responded by reminding us we are looking at a 300-year lease at a cost of €10 per year. That begs the question as to why lease on those terms and why did the Sisters of Charity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...choose the four successful candidates? How many were on the list that was handed to the Taoiseach for decision? I seek a bit more detail on the numbers. One current area of work for the council is on land use, land value and urban development. I note a recent workshop on the issue in late February, which focused in particular on housing affordability. There were presentations and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...will be built. I also expressed my astonishment that neither the Taoiseach nor the Minister for Health had made any substantial effort to convince St. Vincent's Healthcare Group to transfer that land to the State. Furthermore, I proposed that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, should meet urgently with the board of that group to...

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (23 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the value of the land assets taken from financial institutions by the National Assets Management Agency is at least equal to the price paid by NAMA for these assets. [10500/12]