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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today the Dáil will vote on Sinn Féin's motion to stop the ban on the sale of turf. The Taoiseach has indicated that it is his intention to vote against the motion. He will do this despite the frustration felt right across rural communities. He will do it despite the fact that he could not even convince his own backbenchers of the merits of the plan. He will do it despite the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, published its quarterly rent index this morning and it shows again that the Government's housing policy is failing dismally. In fact, it makes for fairly devastating reading, particularly for those in housing need and for those who now have their lives defined by this never-ending housing crisis. The report tells us that rents have doubled since 2011 -...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: We seem to be going around in circles here. The Taoiseach does not dispute the facts in the report from the RTB as presented this morning. I am assuming he does not contest the fact that rents are out of control right across this State, that people are struggling to make these rents, that house prices continue to climb and climb or that homelessness is again at crisis proportions. All of...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21346/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [12671/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: In August last year, ActionAid Ireland, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Men's Development Network all called on the Government to ratify the International Labour Organization, ILO, convention on violence and harassment. As the Tánaiste and his Minister of State have recognised, ILO Convention 190 is the first ever international instrument on eliminating violence and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: Genius.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am just saying that the penny is dropping. Genius.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Northern Assembly recently passed legislation providing for statutory entitlement to at least ten days' paid leave for victims of domestic abuse. Similar protection is urgently needed here. We know that some organisations in the public and private sectors already provide domestic violence paid leave for their employees. This entitlement is usually supplemented with training for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Shared Island dialogue all-island women's forum civic initiative. [13967/22]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about Robert Watt?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no witch hunt.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no witch hunt.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no witch hunt.