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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The need to build capacity in our hospitals has never been more urgent. Decades of bad government policy meant that our health service was at breaking point before we ever heard of Covid-19. Now we face the most serious health emergency of a lifetime. However, despite what the past 18 months have taught us, there is a real absence of urgency and planning from the Government. We need more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Then you have not been listening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well I think you are wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Illiterate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is nothing wrong with our literacy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture; and when it is next due to meet. [54209/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will return to the matter of the Mercosur deal. Despite recent protestations by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the deal, it is worth reminding ourselves that the Government agreed to the negotiating mandate for that deal, which included beef. Throughout the negotiations Sinn Féin called repeatedly for beef to be taken out of the negotiating mandate but no action was taken by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the absence of school transport for the children of Carrigaline Community Special School. There are 29 children who require school transport but none was planned as the school opened at the end of September, a full month after all other children returned to school. In fact, there are a number of children who are yet to set foot inside the school because they simply cannot get there....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deal with transport will next meet. [53057/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the British Prime Minister. [52216/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has reported that he raised the issue of legacy with the British Prime Minister in May and July. Can he confirm that he raised the issue in his exchange with Boris Johnson at last week's conference? Will the Taoiseach elaborate on what contact has been had with the British Prime Minister over the past two weeks in respect of plans that are at an advanced stage, we understand,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no answer.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: A report commissioned by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has again exposed the chronic shortage in refuge places for victims of domestic violence. This is a national crisis. The Istanbul Convention obliges this State to have 498 refuge places; currently there are 140. Nine counties have no refuge place. Between September and December last year, 808 requests for a refuge went...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's policy and his Minister are failing. Supply is, of course, the issue and that is why the Taoiseach should have embraced the ESRI recommendation to double capital investment in the delivery of homes, but he did not do that. His top economist trashed that report. I ask him not to lecture me or anyone else on the Opposition benches on the issue of supply, while simultaneously...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Blah, blah, blah. I ask the Taoiseach to answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is why we have increases in rent of 20%.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: If that is the Taoiseach's idea of success-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----he is really in trouble, more trouble than even I imagined.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was very sorry to learn of the death of Austin Currie, a man who, through his long and distinguished political career, was extremely influential on both sides of our divided island for many years. As a leading member of the early civil rights campaign, a co-founder of the SDLP, a Minister in the short-lived 1974 power-sharing executive in the North and a Fine Gael Minister of State, Austin...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The latest daft.ierental report makes for very bleak reading. It will bring no comfort to tenants who hand over an extortionate amount of their earnings to landlords every month and it again highlights the abject failure of the Government to get to grips with this crisis. Rents, already at record levels, increased by a further 7% in the past year. The average rent has more than doubled in...