Results 2,001-2,020 of 21,647 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 298. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the study commissioned by him to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, the National Strategy for Women and Girls as well as the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy. [6077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the officials in his Department have completed their examination and analysis of the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews submitted to him in the summer of 2022. [5927/23]

Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ben arrivata, Signora Presidente. You are very welcome, Madam President. Ireland is a nation that stands proudly for the values of democracy, solidarity, equality and human dignity, for freedom. These are values shared and cherished by the peoples of Europe as we strive to shape a bright future for workers, families and communities in a rapidly changing world. They are of course the...

Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----and openly and repeatedly violates international law. If the European Union is a Union of values, of peace, then the EU must be to the fore in forming a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine with the same international determination and momentum that defeated apartheid in South Africa three decades ago. Tá a fhios againn nuair a oibríonn muid le...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ben arrivata, Signora Presidente. You are very welcome, Madam President. Ireland is a nation that stands proudly for the values of democracy, solidarity, equality and human dignity, for freedom. These are values shared and cherished by the peoples of Europe as we strive to shape a bright future for workers, families and communities in a rapidly changing world. They are of course the...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----and openly and repeatedly violates international law. If the European Union is a Union of values, of peace, then the EU must be to the fore in forming a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine with the same international determination and momentum that defeated apartheid in South Africa three decades ago. Tá a fhios againn nuair a oibríonn muid le...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 19 January 2023, when he will establish a network of family contact centres to enable supervised meetings or handovers of children between parents who are no longer together or where domestic abuse has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [4087/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and his Cabinet colleagues were advised in a secret memo in 2011 that the withholding of the disabled persons maintenance allowance from people with disabilities was illegal. In the words of the memo circulated to the Taoiseach and the Government, the regulations were "plainly ultra viresand void". The State had not, as the Taoiseach said, a leg to stand on and, therefore, a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, though.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, was he not?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is all in the one memo.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach expressed incredulity at what was suggested. Here are his words so that I am not accused of misrepresenting or misquoting him. The allegation here is very clear. It is that four or five Governments, four or five Attorneys General, any number of Ministers and former Ministers, some of whom are now in the Government and some in the Opposition, and dozens of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is exactly what happened. It happened in respect of preventing those who had been illegally charged in nursing homes from going to court, having the matter adjudicated and getting their money back. It also happened in respect of these citizens who, by the way, were entitled to that allowance. It was illegal. It was judged to have been ultra vires, illegal, for the State to deny those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the care for people? Where is there evidence of a government standing up for people rather than facing them down-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----many of them in the most vulnerable circumstances imaginable in society?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy was the same.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The State settles before the case goes to trial.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We cannot protect the past by attacking the vulnerable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy is the same.