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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was announced earlier this week that the joint committee on the protocol will be convened in the coming weeks. We have been calling for this for many months and I welcome it as a positive development. As I have outlined many times, the protocol is needed to prevent a hard border on our island and to protect the Good Friday Agreement and the peace process. Where there are issues that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, the Taoiseach told us he will play a key role in ensuring departmental delivery on the commitments to end domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, and I welcome that. One of the most urgent actions required to address Ireland's failure in this area is our obligations under the Istanbul Convention on Domestic Violence, in particular refuge places. A report published by Safe...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need a waiver for that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Repeated references to Covid-19 in the Global Ireland progress report reaffirm the reality that in our interdependent world, no one is safe from Covid-19 until everyone is safe. A motion calling on the Government to immediately support a trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, TRIPS, waiver on Covid-19 vaccines was passed by the Seanad last month. Throughout the pandemic,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the production that is the game changer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not the charity element.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that but it is a prerequisite.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the poor south, it is a question of production.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was longer, and it needs to be amended.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the leak?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is talking down the clock.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the investigation be completed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will this investigation be completed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a year later.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of Global Ireland: Ireland's Global Footprint to 2025. [61496/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation final report in advance of its publication in 2021. [61494/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: A year has now passed since the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, wrote to the Secretary General of the Taoiseach’s Department seeking an investigation into the leaking to the media of the commission’s final report. The failure to conclude this investigation has been described by survivors and their families as another broken promise in a long litany of broken promises from the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The help-to-buy scheme is inflationary.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: How many?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach correctly described the scandal of inappropriate prescribing of medication to young mental health service users in County Kerry as deeply shocking. The wider public, in particular those availing of mental health services or whose children or young people are availing of mental health services, need an assurance at this time that what happened in Kerry is not happening anywhere...