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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----not allowed to frustrate the work of the finance committee? I want confirmation of that from the Taoiseach and confirmation that he will, if necessary, intervene.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The finance committee.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not an answer. That is entirely-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise a very serious matter that has been raised by Deputy Catherine Murphy. It concerns the facts that the finance committee wrote to Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Health, that it has actively sought information pertaining to the proposed secondment of Dr. Tony Holohan to Trinity College Dublin and that it has sought all the information pertaining to the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: This makes a mockery of the business we do. It is wholly unacceptable that a Minister or senior civil servant not only refuses to co-operate with a committee of this House but also acts to actively frustrate its work. We need a substantive response from the Taoiseach on this matter to make it very clear to his own ministerial team and, perhaps more important, the public administration...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach intervene to ensure that the information sought by the finance committee is furnished-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and that the Minister for Health and Secretary General appear before the finance committee?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is not answering the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did you not know that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, fair and balanced debate means we have to stick to the fact. The fact is nothing has been done in respect of home heating oil. That is a fact.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not attribute falsehoods to me by advancing a falsehood of your own. The cost of home heating oil has more than doubled in the past year and the Government has done nothing to intervene. In fact, its proposed course of action will drive the cost of home heating oil up further.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: To return to the turf ban-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach accepts what I have said. He has accepted that the ban as proposed by the Minister, Deputy Ryan, is utterly wrong and utterly unfair and will leave people in rural Ireland, particularly older people and people on lower incomes in a really difficult place. I invite the Taoiseach again to clarify that there will be no ban and that the proposed ban, whether it is the finished...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Taoiseach is not prepared to do that, I remind his backbenchers they will have the opportunity to take their stand this evening by voting in favour of the Sinn Féin motion that proposes the ditching, stopping and halting of this proposed ban in its entirety. That is what we need.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is turf.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I asked about turf.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The days of the mass harvesting of turf are over. This is best underscored by the fact that Bord na Móna has moved from its traditional brown peat business to become a leading and profitable champion of renewables. The Government's proposed outright ban on the sale of turf has caused real distress and frustration for rural communities. The proposal is unfair, unworkable and should not...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Meetings (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 168. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which groups (details supplied) chaired or co-chaired by the Secretary General of his Department met from June 2020 to date in 2022. [19419/22]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 180. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of the staff member to return to their position within the Department. [20650/22]