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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Oh, is it not?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. If you say so.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Political insults seem to be the Taoiseach's preferred mode.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----who are looking to put a roof over their heads.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have a housing emergency. The Taoiseach has said that housing policy will be front and centre and that he understands the depths of this emergency, when he clearly does not. He sat there in a state of self-satisfaction when no more than eight affordable homes will be delivered by the end of this year. I think that is scandalous. He ought to be ashamed that this is his record in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----how it is that only eight homes will be delivered by the end of this year? People deserve a full explanation and accountability for that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of eight houses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not 16,000, but eight.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Cheann Comhairle, can I enquire and ask for your guidance, as Cathaoirleach in this House? The objective of this session is that questions are put to the Taoiseach and the Taoiseach attempts, to the best of his ability, however limited that might be-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to answer the questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that it-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----ought to be for the Head of Government-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to go off on a diversion-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will resume my seat. What brings this House into disrepute is that kind of blather that we have had to listen to-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----with no answers to very important questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the fact there will be an opportunity to hear from the Minister for Health on the issue of the horrific turn of events at the maternity hospital in Cork. In October 2018, the then Government announced an affordable housing fund worth €310 million to deliver 6,200 homes to rent or buy over a three-year period. In the Taoiseach's budget day speech at the time, he claimed...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is big on numbers and targets but very low on delivery. That is the reality. He cannot spoof his way out of this one because I have a reply from his Minister, dated 21 September, which makes it clear that the sum total of eight affordable homes for purchase will be delivered by the end of this year - eight - at a time-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach knew that. It is not a surprise to him.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have to tell him it is a surprise to people----- It is not, and it should not be to the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: I urge the Taoiseach to engage with the Minister for Health and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, as a matter of urgency and to rectify this situation.