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Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland has changed and is changing. Brexit is responsible for some of that. The EU took a significant decision when it stated to our then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at the outset of Brexit that, in the context of Irish reunification, the North will automatically rejoin the EU and the North’s citizens will become full EU citizens once again. That is a very important statement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department's Covid-19 and health unit. [57548/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59150/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have two questions. Will the Taoiseach give an explanation as to why the long Covid clinic at the Mater hospital in Dublin is to close? What is the basis for that decision, which seems deeply unwise? Second, I refer to community disability services, which have been caught in a debacle around the transfer of functions from the Department of Health to the Department of Children,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the criticisms of the current national risk assessment is that it does not adequately provide for poverty-related risks and includes an inadequate analysis regarding social exclusion. Of particular relevance today is the criticism that forced displacement does not feature as a risk. It is mentioned only fleetingly in the analysis. Social Justice Ireland has observed that forced...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not my fault.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know. The way the questions are ordered is bizarre.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What remedy is there to be?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the national risk assessment 2021-2022. [57547/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It can still be on the west coast, though.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government contains a promise to create a food ombudsman to protect farmers and consumers from unscrupulous behaviour on the part of powerful retailers and processors. Farmers had sought a regulator with real teeth to tackle the cartel-like behaviour of factories and others, particularly in the meat sector. The Government's draft Bill for an office for fairness and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not analyse my question. Give an answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: You did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Please do not point at me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is have any notion of cost.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will it be?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fiasco surrounding the delivery of the national children’s hospital continues. It is a saga that has rumbled on for two decades. We have already seen the cost for the hospital balloon and almost double. Despite all this investment, the children of Ireland still do not have their hospital. It was supposed to be open by 2014. Then it was August 2022. Now we are told it might...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Taxpayers’ money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Whatever about it being disadvantageous for the Taoiseach to give a final figure of costs to the Dáil, let me tell the Taoiseach that it is wholly disadvantageous and unacceptable that the Government has set out on this project with a totally open-ended contract, playing advantage at every turn to the developer, such that we have spent €1.1 billion of taxpayers’ money. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [54593/22]