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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [4364/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Tánaiste expressed his frustration with the Government's slow rate of progress in accelerating plans and ambitions for renewable electricity and new fuels such as green hydrogen. If the programme for Government's commitments are to be realised, a Government-led hydrogen strategy is urgent. We can lead from the front on green hydrogen. This is the view of public and...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach spoken to them on the back of these reports?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier, the Taoiseach described the latest report of the Police Ombudsman as deeply concerning. It is indeed shocking and sheds light on the activities of British state agents and on their connection to 27 loyalist murders and attempted murders in south Belfast between 1990 and 1998. As he will know, this is just the latest report setting out the nature of the relationship between the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is comparing a novel to a human rights report.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach might read the Amnesty International report.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Read the report.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What people who are living this struggle have had is delay, dithering and lack of clarity from the Government bar the one Minister of State who was very clear and told people to stop complaining and shop around. I take it from the Taoiseach that that is not the official advice from the Government. The Government should stop dithering and should intervene in a way that is proportionate to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: People cannot pay their bills today, this week or this month.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Merci beaucoup. For more than a year, households have been hammered by a cost-of-living crisis that is out of control. Workers and families do all they can to keep up with sky-high bills and runaway price increases, but people still cannot catch a break or catch a breath. They are crucified by the extortionate costs of housing, energy, fuel, groceries and insurance and everything going up...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 148. To ask the Taoiseach when the evaluation of the way Ireland handled the Covid-19 pandemic will commence; the person or body that will oversee the process; the timeframe within which this work will be carried out; the mechanism by which the public, community and voluntary sector will contribute to the process; and if this work will be conducted in public. [5995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE received an instruction from his Department on 24 June 2021 to suspend the funding allocation for operational and administrative funding to the North Inner-City Drugs and Alcohol Taskforce; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that this instruction was not communicated to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 267. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Covid-19 vaccination related activities Irish Aid is currently engaged in; and the countries in which this work is taking place in tabular form. [5556/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 370. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the independent study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews has been finalised; and when it will be published. [5672/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach the groups chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [3188/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach notes the Secretary General's work on the national memorial and records centre. This is an important commitment by the Government and its delivery will ensure that Ireland meets its moral and human rights obligations to the women and children who endured institutional abuse overseen by the State. The Government's action plan for mother and baby home survivors commits funding...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is aware the DUP continues to boycott the North-South Ministerial Council. As has been said previously, the party leadership continues to issue threats to the North's political stability. I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that these actions do not serve anybody in the North well. What is his view on, and the Government's response to, the DUP's boycotting of the North-South...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tell the HSE that.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [4366/22]