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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [43924/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: A recent national port study published by Wind Energy Ireland found that Belfast Harbour is the only port on the island ready to construct offshore wind farms. The sector has repeatedly warned the Government that it cannot build 7 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030 from a single port. The opportunity that renewable energy affords our island in terms energy security, affordability and job...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [43923/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The annual Education at a Glance report published by the OECD found that Ireland's investment in education as a percentage of GDP is ranked lowest in the OECD. That is the reality. As regards the teaching unions, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, has warned that schools are in urgent need of a significant increase in funding. Similarly, the Teachers Union of Ireland,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have a serious mental health crisis in Ireland. Communities and families are crying out for help. Front-line services and voluntary organisations are crying out for support. It is not an exaggeration to say that we face into a tsunami in mental health need, not least because of the pandemic. We know that children and young people are left waiting for far too long for mental healthcare....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to revisit this before the finance Bill comes before the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: With pleasure, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome our visitors from Ballyhaunis Community School. Fáilte isteach gach duine. The Taoiseach would be more Animal Farm than 1984, some being more equal than others and none more unequally treated than that generation I have described to him who are locked out of home ownership, and well he knows it. Yes, industry has to pay. By the way,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to scrap the Government's concrete block levy. The proposal is flawed and will make the housing crisis even worse. The Taoiseach says the levy is to ensure that industry contributes to redress schemes for defective blocks and pyrite. However, the reality is that this is not a levy on the industry at all. The Government's scheme is really a levy on those desperately...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the new National Strategy for Women and Girls for 2022 to 2025 will be published. [47944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 463. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, which includes the National Strategy for Women and Girls and the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy. [47945/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that he has made in his discussions with the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland regarding contributing towards the mother and baby home redress scheme. [47947/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to his Department’s failure to respond in-part and in-whole to the freedom-of-information requests of a person (details supplied), some of which date back to September 2020; and if this delay meets his Department’s commitment to promote transparency in its...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the core and additional budget allocated to her Department for 2023 to deliver a five-year programme of reform to address service demand and support the establishment of a new statutory agency for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, in tabular form. [48175/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 642. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the additional budget allocated to his Department for 2023 to fund implementation of the Disability Capacity Review in tabular form. [48196/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no progress to be found in the budget measures for social and affordable housing. There is no increase in capital spending, no increase to the paltry targets the Government has missed time and again, and no credible action plan to stem record homelessness. In this budget the Government blatantly ignores the lived experiences of a generation locked out of affordable housing as the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: This budget comes at a time when our people are struggling with the most serious cost-of-living crisis in 40 years. The challenges households face are reminiscent of those that people faced in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Families find it very hard to make it to the end of the week. Soaring energy bills and motor fuel costs, extortionate rents and sharp increases in the price of food have...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Instead, the budget continues the cycle of failure that is the hallmark of this Government. It entirely misses the big picture. It has no answers to the big questions in housing, health and in the cost of living. It shows that the Government is not prepared to do what must be done to protect households really in the here and now and that it has no plan for a future in which all of our...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for this to work, and for renters to have relief, there must be a ban on rent increases for three years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I invite the Taoiseach to correct the error in the proposals made yesterday.