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Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Explain them.

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The assertion by US President Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, that the dispossessed, impoverished and brutalised refugee population of Gaza should be permanently exiled to facilitate Israeli occupation and those wishing to construct a dystopian riviera is astounding in its cruelty and demonstrates utter disregard for human rights and international law. The only way to stop Israel...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: If you walk down Henry Street in Dublin, just outside Dunnes Stores you will find two plaques. The plaques are inscribed with the names of 11 courageous Dunnes Stores workers who went on strike in 1984 and took to the picket lines in protest against the company's handling of goods from apartheid South Africa. For more than two and a half years, Mary Manning and her colleagues sustained...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: ESB Group is enormously profitable. It receives significant funding from the taxpayer by way of the public service obligation levy. Yesterday, the CEO of the ESB stated that the cost of repairing damage to the network caused by the recent storm would be borne by customers in their bills. We have previously discussed the hardship that has been wrought by the storm, where so many of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Contrary to the Taoiseach's assertion, the actual priority for this new cobbled-together grubby-deal Government is actually jobs for the boys, and for the few girls who might be lucky enough to make an appearance. Its desire to divvy out the spoils of government is unparalleled in the history of this House. The Order of Business proposes more positions, more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Oh wow.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the first time, the Taoiseach and, by extension, the Government have openly accepted that they have missed their targets. I suppose that is progress of some sort. The fact remains that the Taoiseach deliberately and repeatedly used a figure of 40,000 new homes for 2024 when he has to have known that this was not going to be delivered. He cites Deutsche Bank but he knows that by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ten minutes?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You want ten minutes of me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am more than happy to speak for ten minutes; I have a lot to say. Forty thousand is the number of new homes the Taoiseach and Simon Harris said they would build last year. It is a number that was repeated again and again throughout 2024, going into overdrive in the lead-up to last November’s general election. Let me recall for the Taoiseach some of his bluster. On social media...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the funding provided to county councils for road gritting is restricted solely to regional and national roads. [2183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contingency measures his Department has in place to ensure that funding is provided for council municipal districts such as the Edenderry local electoral area in Offaly, which has no national roads and therefore does not meet the criteria for additional funding from central Government for essential road safety services during...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if An Garda Síochána is still using a building (details supplied) or whether it has instead been transferred to another Department, State agency or body; and if so, to provide the relevant details regarding this change of use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Weather Events (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post primary schools in north Offaly that were forced to close during the severe cold weather the country experienced from 6 to 10 January 2025, in tabular form. [2186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authorities (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to Offaly County Council on an annual basis from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [2183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Weather Events (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedures in place for county councils to apply for additional funding during severe weather; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2185/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the supplementary welfare allowance can be used to replace gas boilers for those who do not have the means to pay to replace them on their own (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2454/25]

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (23 Jan 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to set back the goal of ceasing trading with companies that profit from the dispossession, the apartheid and the brutal dehumanisation of the Palestinian people. I regard this as a stunning betrayal. Humanitarian aid is necessary and reconstruction is absolutely vital, but we need to be clear that on their own these are not enough.