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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The housing emergency has dominated life in Ireland for more than a decade. It is a story of an entire generation locked out of affordable housing and locked out of opportunity. It is a generation that works hard and does all the right things but still sees their aspirations pushed further away. Their lives are on hold and their futures are uncertain. Over the past four days, I have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Are the 8,000 new builds?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach describes Housing for All as the most ambitious plan. He talks about significant impact and indicators of success, yet all the evidence on the ground in the real world is of a social emergency. There is catastrophic failure in the housing market that has implications for people's quality of life, their life options and chances and their mental health. Younger people are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [54589/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 3 of 2022 will be published. [54590/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Prague summit of the European Political Community. [51352/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am delighted to see the Ceann Comhairle back in the Chair. The Taoiseach stated that energy and energy security were a significant focus of the Prague summit, and they continue to be for European political leaders. In that regard, I wish to raise our planning system, particularly An Bord Pleanála, which has been in crisis for some time. The difficulties run deeper than the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Alliance for Insurance Reform has stated that insurance companies are taking their policyholders and the Government for a ride when it comes to the insurance reform plan. Business and voluntary organisations have seen no reduction in their insurance premiums while a report published today shows that motor insurance has fallen by only 2% in the past year. The value of awards has reduced...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I support the Taoiseach's comments regarding the importance of population screening and the importance for women to participate in CervicalCheck. All of us who avail of the service are well aware of its absolute value. Vicky’s ambition to bringing screening home can be achieved. It was a catastrophic error for the laboratory services not to be available and for screening not to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the sad news broke that Vicky Phelan had passed away. Her two children, Amelia and Darragh have lost their beautiful mother so early in their lives. Our hearts go out to her husband Jim, to her heartbroken parents, Gaby and John, and to Vicky's family and friends who are devastated by her death. The nation mourns with them. Vicky Phelan was a force of nature. In pursuit of...

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Vicky said, "The hardest part for me, it's not the dying, it's the leaving my children behind. That's what breaks my heart." Yesterday, at just past midnight, Vicky's battle with terminal cervical cancer ended, her young life ended, her life stolen by a vicious disease, her life stolen by profound failures of the State, of Government and of the HSE. Enormous and endless tributes flow now...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Council for Special Education will complete and submit its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools which was first commissioned in September 2018; and the reason that it has taken over four years to complete. [56186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 20 October 2022, when a full reply will be issued. [56495/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The highest rents, highest house prices and highest levels of homelessness - that is the reality of the Government's record.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here is Karen, who is in her early 20s. She says she has been with her boyfriend for six years and they are still living with parents in a box room. They just want to start their own life and are just waiting for something to get better. It is so hard, she says. Michael says: We are a working family with 2 children. Renting for 21 years. We’ve been given a notice of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is not going to put roofs over people's heads.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night during a debate with Sinn Féin's Deputy Ó Broin, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien, claimed that we do not have a housing emergency. It was incredible stuff and, therefore, I will share with the Taoiseach just some of the hundreds of accounts from people who have been in touch with us in the past 24 hours - victims of the housing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We had a trolley crisis in the summer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is breaking records for all the wrong reasons in our health service. For the first time in our history, we have had a summer trolley crisis, with record wait times. We have seen people aged 75 and over waiting for six or nine days on a trolley. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, said just this afternoon that more than 100,000 patients have waited on trolleys...