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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [24326/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The horrific outcomes of sub-standard Celtic-tiger building practices and the widespread use of blocks and backfill with deleterious materials such as pyrite, mica and pyrrhotite remain with us today. Last week, we witnessed in the Chamber the heartbreak and devastation of families let down by the Government's substandard defective blocks legislation, but today I want to raise the issue of a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. Well, any answer, whether in 30 seconds or two seconds, would be great.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have raised with the Taoiseach many times the real stress on families now with the costs of getting children back to school in September. I have also acknowledged that it is welcome that the back to school allowance has been increased by €100. We also ask that this allowance be extended. Many middle-income families are struggling badly, and they will not qualify for one red cent....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes but I asked the Taoiseach about teachers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am well aware of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I set out for the Taoiseach a story that I think is very worrying. The teachers' unions are expressing alarm over the fact that teachers are relocating from Dublin because they cannot afford to live here. They cannot afford the rents. They cannot afford to get a mortgage. These are the facts on the ground. I asked the Taoiseach whether he shared concerns about this. I asked him what is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last month, President Michael D. Higgins described the housing crisis as a disaster. I believe that he gave voice to the hard realities faced by those desperately struggling to put an affordable roof over their heads because when people cannot afford a home, it does not just stop there; it has wide-reaching and deep consequences for our society. Today we read that schools in Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Maternity Leave (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish a general scheme to grant an entitlement of maternity leave to councillors elected to local government. [37262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 531. 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. [37013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an Intreo centre at Navan Road, Cabra West, Dublin 7 will reopen to the public upon the completion of refurbishment works. [37334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of the refurbishment works being carried out at the Intreo Centre, Navan Road, Cabra West, Dublin 7 [37335/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Strategies (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 723. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the €363 million committed to the five-year period of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence by Department and year. [37126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Strategies (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 724. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of the €363 million budgetary allocation committed to the five-year period of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence that has already been committed to existing current and capital expenditure. [37127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1076. To ask the Minister for Health when he will immediately publish the Action Plan for the Disability Capacity Review; and if he will include its measures in his Department’s budgetary plan for 2023. [38037/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Everyday, people are asking themselves after a decade of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael botched policy that favoured private developers and landlords, how is it that in the face of a crisis like no other in housing we are subjected to the same banal rhetoric we have had to listen to for the last ten or 15 minutes. The Minister should ask himself how we have record house prices, record rent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for the honour and glory-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----of a roof over their heads. Yet, we come in here-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----week in and week out and listen to this rubbish from a Government that is failing. I ask the Minister the direct question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the face of the ESRI report, which is just the latest evidence of this catastrophe, does the Government still contend that it is getting it right because it very clearly is not?