Results 1-20 of 21,383 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin, unveiled the Government's intention to convert the GPO for the purposes of retail units and office accommodation. This is the Government's shameful plan for the most iconic site of Ireland's struggle for freedom. This is the building outside which Pádraig Pearse in Easter 1916 read aloud the Proclamation of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Domestic violence is at epidemic levels. Women's Aid has published its annual report and it makes for very grim reading. Last year, it received the highest number of domestic abuse complaints in its 50-year history. All forms of abuse against women have increased. Physical abuse is up 22%, sexual abuse by 30%, emotional abuse up 15% and economic abuse up 5%. One third of women who...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What message does this send to women fighting to survive? After 15 years of strategy, the Government is still talking about basic training initiatives for front-line responders. Where is the urgency? None of this is good enough. Women faced with violence and abuse deserve far more. Léiríonn tuarascáil scannalach de chuid Women's Aid inniu go bhfuil eipidéim ag dul...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister. Let me acknowledge the actions that have been taken by Government and the commitment the Minister has made here to the House in respect of Jennie's law and further reform. That is welcome but it is not enough. The evidence on the ground reflects the reality that violence against women and their children is not taken with the seriousness it deserves. Those are the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The lack of standardisation is undesirable, as is the lack of wraparound services. I do not want the Minister to deliver just more of the same. We need a real step change if we are to achieve zero tolerance.
- Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are not splitting the atom either.
- Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the 1998 Good Friday Agreement recognises the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves, and be accepted as, Irish or British, or both; and — the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution - Amending the Constitution to give citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [26977/25]
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Uachtaráin) 2014: Tarchur chuig Roghchoiste [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tairgim: Go gcuirfear an Bille faoi bhráid an Roghchoiste um Thithíocht, Rialtas Áitiúil agus Oidhreacht de réir Bunordú 187. I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage pursuant to Standing Order 187.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Pathetic.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is such a cheap shot.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not happening.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Never mind that. What about services?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about services? That was the question.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are being slaughtered.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Government brought forward a plan, the net effect of which will be to cause rents to rise across the board. One particular group who will be affected by this are students. Having said initially the Government would have their backs, it is now clear it does not have their backs because those renting in the private sector will suffer, just like others, as landlords can seek...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Insurance has gone up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach keep track of even his own Bills?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, you did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: HRT is not a grocery.