Results 201-220 of 21,383 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Renting has never been more expensive or less secure than under the Taoiseach's Government. This week, daft.ie published its figures for the rental market for the start of this year. Rents are now climbing faster than at any point in the previous 20 years. Average new rents are now over €2,000 a month. That is an eye-watering €24,000 a year on rent. In Dublin city, new...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: In summary, I want the Taoiseach to stop screwing it up. That is actually what I want. I want the Taoiseach to take account of the fact and accept the fact that he is presiding over an emergency and a catastrophe. There are record levels of homelessness. This society is now so numbed to your failure that record numbers - there are almost 5,000 children in homeless accommodation - do not...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (21 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to provide places for parents and carers to be represented on the Department of An Taoiseach Disability Unit [26142/25]
- Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — children are legally entitled to an assessment of their health and education needs under the Disability Act 2005, and that the assessment must take place within six months; and — the law is being broken with respect to the 15,296 children whose Assessment of Need is overdue, and with just 4,162 assessments conducted last...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will meet next. [22208/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Children are on the brink of starvation in Gaza as a consequence of Israel's blocking of humanitarian aid. It is blocking food, water and medicines. More than 500 people have been slaughtered in Gaza in recent days alone. What people might not know is that the Irish Government has made Ireland complicit in funding this genocide. The Irish Central Bank oversees the sale of Israeli war...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Similarly, under Standing Order 35(3), I wish to move an amendment to the Order of Business-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to ensure that at the end of Thursday's business we have statements on the Government's deal with Michael Lowry and that the Taoiseach and Tánaiste make statements and take questions and give full-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----clarity and transparency. What is the relationship with Cabinet?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is this rota of Ministers? What deal was struck?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Michael Lowry.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about Michael Lowry?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The question was asked.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about Michael Lowry, the Chief Whip's colleague?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Or combine with the law.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What the High Court found is that the State is breaking the law.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What the High Court demanded is that the State be in compliance with the law.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is what the ruling means. It does not mean change the law. The Taoiseach's message to us today is that rather than working to be in compliance with the law to ensure that children get the assessments of need to which they are legally entitled within the statutory framework of six months, his idea is to change the law and remove that provision. There is a common view, certainly across...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I put it to the Taoiseach again that rather than suggesting he simply changes the law, he should comply with the law and tell us how-----