Results 2,601-2,620 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has failed in terms of supply and affordability. Those are the facts. I will help the Taoiseach to try to absorb the reality. This image shows a storage room. This accommodation would set you back just €300 a month. That is probably considered good value in the Taoiseach's housing market. This image shows a converted hallway in Dublin. This would knock you back...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did you live like those living in the accommodations I have described?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Stop that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the out-of-control cost of living and the never-ending price hikes that workers and families are forced to endure. I must say he came up very short in terms of a complete Government plan in respect of energy cost. It seems he is either unable or unwilling to grasp the scale of the crisis that hard-pressed households deal with every day. They know -...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Greedy developers. That is how it collapsed eventually.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of emergency refuge and emergency non-refuge accommodation units for victims of domestic violence and their children in each county in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form. [3781/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (26 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated to emergency refuge and emergency non-refuge accommodation units for victims of domestic violence and their children in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form. [3782/22]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then find another model.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach could answer the question.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should not trivialise this.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would like the Taoiseach to give people answers to their questions-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and not trivialise it-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, the Taoiseach specified wage inflation.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach spoke of a spiralling wage inflation at a time when people's wages are flat and those people are put to the pin of their collars.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Women of Honour came forward to share personal and harrowing stories of sexual harassment, violence and bullying within the Defence Forces. I commend their courage. As the Taoiseach will know, the women have been very clear in their call for an independent investigative statutory process to look at these very serious allegations. Despite this, the Minister for Defence, Deputy Coveney,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The truth is that no step change has been effected by the Taoiseach's Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: What we have seen is more of the same. The proof of that is that house prices are up 14% and rents are up 8%. The truth is that the Government has continued with the same approach. Rather hearing an answer from the Taoiseach, he reached for excuses. I am well aware of the international context and of the inflationary pressures. By the way, the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland has...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Energy costs.