Results 181-200 of 21,631 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government needs to sanction Israel.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The deficit in our infrastructure is on the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has presided over that. The Taoiseach is right that investment needs to be made. The mistakes that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have made during the past number of Administrations have to be corrected. The Taoiseach is right about that. However, he is entirely missing where the lives of families and people are at.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is right to say that the rate of inflation has fallen, and thank God for that. However, he is entirely missing the fact that prices have not followed suit. Anybody who goes into a supermarket or shop or opens a bill can tell the Taoiseach that we are in place where households are still struggling. On the Government's record, in the past five months the price of home heating oil has...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is on the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who is disputing that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Meanwhile, Johnny and Mary cannot pay their bills.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have had six months of this do-nothing Government. Now, the Dáil is about to rise. As it rises, the Government will leave people with stress and uncertainty. People will face big rent hikes next year, thanks to the Government. Students and their families face a big hike in college fees, thanks to the Government. Also thanks to the Government, tens of thousands of families will be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Before I begin, I wish to congratulate our undisputed world champion, Katie Taylor, on an incredible victory in Madison Square Garden on Saturday morning.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Katie, as we know, has fought all over the world. She has walked many times into the lion's den. I know lots of people are anticipating the mother and father of all homecomings and a fight, maybe, in Croke Park.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has comprehensively ruled out providing a cost-of-living package in October's budget. The media today is full of reports that he is set to double down on the removal of support payments for struggling households. At a time when living costs are through the roof and people have been hit by skyrocketing prices from every direction, the Government proposes to abandon households...
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The most recent meeting of the European Council placed a heavy focus on the ramping-up of EU defence readiness. Of course, under the Commission Presidency of Ursula von der Leyen, the term "defence readiness" is simply code for the acceleration of a militarisation agenda, an agenda that pushes Europe into a new arms race, an agenda that will see the European Union spend an unprecedented...
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed, the Tánaiste's plan to align Ireland with the von der Leyen Commission's new EU militarisation instrument, security action for Europe, shows exactly why our neutrality must be defended to the hilt. We are talking about a proposal that would raid the coffers of EU social funds for €150 billion and redirect that money to military purposes.
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The ordinary people of Ireland will not surrender our neutrality just so Micheál Martin or Simon Harris can get a pat on the head from the high and mighty at the European Commission. The mothers and fathers of Ireland did not raise their sons and daughters to be sent off and die-----
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----in imperialist wars of aggression, in conflicts that have nothing to do with this country because, make no mistake, that is where the plan of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to demolish our neutrality leads us. That is where von der Leyen's turbo-charged militarisation leads us. So, with everything we have got, we are going to stand up and defend out neutrality and in doing so, we will...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What will students and their families be asked to pay for college in September? Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? The Minister for higher education last night claimed that he believes in giving straight answers to a straight question, and then delivered a ten-minute speech in which he gaslit students and failed to answer that question at all. We have now had ten days of Government...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is in October.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: No child is safe in Gaza. The Israeli genocide has mercilessly slaughtered children with abandon and the international community has watched on. The commitment made by this State and Government is a very modest one to take 30 children. They should be evacuated with all due haste. According to the medics who will treat these children, not alone have eight children been identified by the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, I have been in contact with the Tánaiste and he informed me that there was in fact a necessity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----for a memo to Cabinet. I do not know what the communications are like within government; I am not really interested in that. I am interested in the children-----