Results 2,021-2,040 of 21,131 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Strategies (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 724. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of the €363 million budgetary allocation committed to the five-year period of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence that has already been committed to existing current and capital expenditure. [37127/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (12 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1076. To ask the Minister for Health when he will immediately publish the Action Plan for the Disability Capacity Review; and if he will include its measures in his Department’s budgetary plan for 2023. [38037/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Everyday, people are asking themselves after a decade of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael botched policy that favoured private developers and landlords, how is it that in the face of a crisis like no other in housing we are subjected to the same banal rhetoric we have had to listen to for the last ten or 15 minutes. The Minister should ask himself how we have record house prices, record rent...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----for the honour and glory-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----of a roof over their heads. Yet, we come in here-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----week in and week out and listen to this rubbish from a Government that is failing. I ask the Minister the direct question.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the face of the ESRI report, which is just the latest evidence of this catastrophe, does the Government still contend that it is getting it right because it very clearly is not?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Big bucks for developers.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has failed.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has failed.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Like Croí Cónaithe and €140,000 for developers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has left those families behind. It is disgraceful.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are perfectly happy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I extend a very warm welcome to all the groups in the Public Gallery referred to by Deputy Cairns. Tá fáilte rompu go léir. Parents across Ireland are under enormous pressure to meet extortionate back to school costs. It is a big source of stress for families every summer but this year is exceptional, given the ever worsening cost-of-living crisis. For weeks, we have...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government took its time listening to what is just plain common sense by making a move on these matters now in July and putting money in families' pockets when they need it and when it will count. I ask the Minister to take the next step. He is surely not saying to families who have €621 a week that they are home and hosed, and that it is plain sailing for them. We describe...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: SIPTU members employed by the Irish Wheelchair Association are on strike today. They are on the picket line because they have not had a pay increase in 14 years. Even though they do the same work as HSE healthcare assistants, they are paid a lot less, which is €3 per hour less. As the Tánaiste will be aware, this is a common problem across section 39 organisations. These are...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. The haste with which the Government wishes to move the defective blocks scheme of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, through the Oireachtas is extraordinary and scandalous. I know time is short and we are coming towards the summer break, but we should reflect on the fact the defective blocks containing mica and pyrite have...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: This merits comment. The Government is attempting to ram this matter through without proper scrutiny-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and without proper amendment to produce another scheme that will fail. I will place on the record of the House-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----that the time allowed for consideration of this is wholly inadequate. People's homes, people's lives-----