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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (25 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons working in his Department’s press office, communications team and social media team in tabular form. [52771/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (25 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 800. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons working in her Department’s press office, communications team and social media team in tabular form. [52787/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (20 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 283. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the applications to date to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme by country of residence; the number of successful applications to the scheme by country of residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52640/22]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The European Council will meet at a time of ongoing discussion on the Irish protocol. We are facing the 28 October deadline for agreement between the European Union and the British Government. I am therefore surprised the Taoiseach did not have in his remarks any reference to the protocol and the politics playing out around all of this.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is critical that these talks deliver a positive outcome, the chaos in London and the dysfunction of the Tory Truss Government notwithstanding. It is important that we have good faith negotiations and the needs of ordinary people in the North and across Ireland are put front and centre. The European Union is essential in ensuring all of this happens. To repeat the point, I am surprised...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is very much on the agenda for the people living on this island.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are now into the end game.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Taoiseach's job to ensure it intrudes on the agenda of the European Council. He will find very willing ears on it.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: If I could continue without the endless heckling from the Taoiseach and his colleague.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Acting Chair for the clarification. To clarify further, I was being barracked and not vice versa. The Taoiseach is aware that since Michelle O'Neill was elected First Minister designate in May, the DUP has refused to re-enter the Executive and appoint a deputy First Minister. The DUP cites concerns around the protocol but the reality is it is holding democracy to ransom. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [48038/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: He certainly would not, leak or no leak.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In July, Shane O'Farrell's patients, Lucia and Jim, received a copy of the final scoping exercise report into Shane's death. The process took over three years. It is important to acknowledge that every State-sponsored mechanism by which the family have sought to secure the truth of the events leading to Shane's death has taken an inexcusable time to be completed, with the strategy being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: NESC has just published the findings of focus group work undertaken in the north-west on the experiences of people in the Border areas under the themes of sustainability and connectivity. Indeed, connectivity concerns are at the heart of this work. The Taoiseach met with a cross-party delegation of councillors from Donegal, Derry and Strabane earlier this year. During that meeting, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. First, I endorse that call for immediate action on the citizens' assembly on the issue of drugs. The matter is outstanding and is urgent. As Deputy Gannon said, we know from our own constituency and the communities we represent just how critical this is. I also want to ask the Taoiseach about a citizens' assembly on the issue of Irish reunification....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know if the Taoiseach heard the voices of the thousands of students who last Thursday took part in a walk-out protest against the Government's failure to tackle the student accommodation crisis. I do not know if he heard their experiences of the impossibility of finding any accommodation, the real pressure of this cost-of-living crisis, impossible and crazy commutes for so many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Unbelievable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, Sinn Féin brought a motion before the Dáil calling on the Government to ensure that households are protected from electricity and gas disconnection this winter. Our motion proposes a ban on disconnections now instead of waiting until December as the Government's plan suggests. It would provide desperately needed protection and certainty for the hundreds of thousands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The difficulty lies in the Taoiseach's statement that the Minister "will continue to engage". I am very concerned that there is not a sense of pace in the Taoiseach's response to this situation, which is one of incredible stress and worry for hundreds of thousands of families throughout the land. The Taoiseach's concern about people falling into debt is understandable but I need to say that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a copy of the business case undertaken by his Department on the establishment of a passport office in Belfast; the date on which this work was initiated; the date on which it concluded and if this work was undertaken by officials in his Department or outsourced to another agency, organisation or academic. [52305/22]