Results 321-340 of 20,543 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I acknowledge the Irish women's darts team and officials who are in the Public Gallery. They are the current world champions. Comhgairdeas agus fáilte. Sixteen years ago, Fine Gael said it would end the scandal of people waiting on hospital trolleys. Yesterday in University Hospital Limerick, there were 130 patients on trolleys. That is the highest number ever recorded at any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----may be small but we can have a very, very big influence on this question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's party has been in government for 12 years. He is in his second stint as Taoiseach. Obviously, one can only assume that he has used that time, as he has claimed, to build relationships. He might inform us about who our allies are on this question, what level of persuasion the Taoiseach has exercised and what work he has done outside the European Council to talk to European...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: More than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed. More than 2,000 Palestinian children are dead. More than 1,000 Palestinian women are dead. More than 15,000 Palestinians have been injured. Almost 2 million Palestinians have been displaced. This is the depressing toll of human suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza over the past two weeks. The people of Ireland were rightly outraged...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a brutally violent offensive military campaign. Hundreds of schools in Gaza have been destroyed. Its health infrastructure has been obliterated. The hospitals that remain functioning are quickly running out of fuel to keep generators going. As food runs out, the people of Gaza face starvation. As clean water runs out, they face the prospect of cholera. As they run out of the...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The people of the world are witness to a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Israel has unleashed the weight of its military might upon a beleaguered refugee population. It rains its arsenal of missiles down upon 2 million impoverished people hemmed into an area half the size of County Louth. This indiscriminate mass slaughter of innocent men, women and children is carried out in full sight...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I remind our Government that the recitation of all our interventions and charitable acts for the Palestinian people does not relieve it of its primary responsibility to hold Israel accountable to the world for its acts of impunity and violation of international law. We in Ireland know all too well the pain and tragedy of colonisation, occupation and dispossession. We have known conflict and...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I move amendment No. 2: After "utterly condemns the hospital bombing that occurred last evening;" to insert the following: "— unreservedly condemns Israel's brutal assault on the civilian population of Gaza which has resulted in more than 3,000 deaths including over 1,000 children to date in breach of international law; — condemns the forced displacement of...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: To be clear, is that all of our amendments?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was bragging there about the Government's achievement in housing. Meanwhile, a new report published by Morgan McKinley Ireland shows that Ireland faces a brain drain across the economy. Workers in many professions are emigrating because of a housing crisis and sky-high living costs. Accountants are heading off to Australia and Canada and the construction sector has also been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Israel's carpet bombing decimated Gaza's medical infrastructure, crippling the ability of Palestinians to help the injured, the sick and the dying. The destruction of hospitals is a direct violation of international law, a war crime, yet Israel believes it has the right to bomb hospitals. Last night, Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City was bombed. "Devastation", "carnage" and "a massacre" are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Starving people is not defence. Impoverishing and displacing people are not defence. Destruction of their hospitals is not defence. This is in fact an all-out offensive assault on a refugee population trapped in the world's largest open-air prison. The leadership of the international community condemns, deplores and expresses outrage but does not shout "Stop". Humanity now demands we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome that call. We need ceasefires. We need peace. We need an end to the bombardment and the blockade, and the suffering inflicted mercilessly by Israel on the Gazan population. Let me just say to the Taoiseach what we do know. We know that Israel has bombed hospitals in Gaza before. It is a repeat offender in this regard. We know that Israel ordered the evacuation of hospitals....

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: For 12 long years, Lucia and Jim O'Farrell have lived every parent's worst nightmare. In the summer of 2011, their beloved son, Shane, was left to die on the side of a Carrickmacross road. He had been blown off his bicycle in a hit-and-run incident. A life full of love, promise and potential was cut short. All Shane's tomorrows were wiped out in the blink of an eye. He was only 23 years...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope the proposal arising from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, will see health and social care workers in the community and voluntary sector achieve the pay parity they have demanded for so long. The announcement of last week's budget was the moment the Government officially walked away from fixing healthcare. Last night I met organisations that deliver services to people with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: He has not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The proposal to have a motion on the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories taken without debate is not acceptable. We have had a tradition in the Dáil of working collectively and in a collegiate fashion to arrive at consensus positions when it comes to Palestine. I believe that we should maintain that. There is enough common ground, some of which the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: These are not defensive actions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach will attend an emergency meeting of European leaders. At this meeting, will he call for ceasefires? Will he call for an end to the bombardment of Gaza, for dialogue and for the imposition of international law?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is abundantly clear that Israel is not abiding by international law, humanitarian law or the law of wars, as the Taoiseach put it. There have been 3,000 Palestinian deaths. Many more people are missing under the rubble. We have witnessed with our own eyes collective punishment and the targeting of civilian infrastructure resulting in no water, no medicines, no food and an increased...