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Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are nearly a week into the cyberattack on the HSE and the Department of Health. We are told it will take weeks to resolve this matter. Obviously, the operational capacity of the entire system has been completely undermined and patients will suffer as a result. The picture emerging from our public health system in respect of its IT capacities and technology is not a good one. Speaking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the vaccine roll-out group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [25952/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Citizens' Assembly on gender equality made a number of recommendations that complement and supplement the programme for Government commitments on tackling domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence and supporting victims and their children. Is it the intention of the Government to consider the implementation of these recommendations in tandem with its own work? The Taoiseach is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the programme for Government. [25951/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I sincerely doubt that Deputy Mac Lochlainn ever looks plaintively at the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach will be aware, thousands of families in Donegal and Mayo have been devastated by the presence of mica and pyrite in the structure of their homes. I met many of these families last year. I would struggle to describe to the Taoiseach the level of stress and trauma they have endured. Unfortunately, rather than making available to them a fully funded scheme which would cover...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and capital gains to apply. End the sweetheart arrangements and make absolutely sure that protection is afforded to every residential unit. Houses, apartments, duplexes-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----all of them are homes and all of them need to be kept away from these vultures, these cuckoos, these funds that the Taoiseach-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----has invited in to wreak havoc in the lives of our citizens.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why will the Taoiseach not answer the question?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Never mind my party; you're the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach has no answers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has no answers for an entire generation. There are no answers, only spoof, from the Deputy from Cork.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We might expect answers. It is called Leaders' Questions. We expect answers from the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is why the taxpayer pays his salary.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The reality for the Taoiseach is that he caused this problem. He caused this crisis and he is sustaining it. The reality is that, as a consequence of his policy, these investment funds come here. Not alone do they come here and snap up family homes from under the noses of home buyers but, in fact, his Government invests in these funds to the tune of hundreds of millions of euro. His...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin has been raising with Government the need to tackle the growing power of so-called cuckoo funds for years. We proposed measures to end the sweetheart tax deals that these funds have been gifted by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, but, time and again, Government has voted against these proposals. Last week, the Taoiseach came to the Dáil and expressed his shock that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disadvantaged Status (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will introduce a DEIS-type model for early learning centre settings to narrow the gap for disadvantaged children as committed to in the whole-of-Government Strategy for Babies, Young Children and their Families 2019-2028. [26479/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is not much I can say in 20 seconds.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will take the 20 seconds to inform the Taoiseach, because he may not know, that his Fianna Fáil colleagues on Dublin City Council voted against the Oscar Traynor proposal because it was flawed. I have to break it to the Taoiseach that the days of gifting vast swathes of public land to private developers are over, as far as we are concerned. I had hoped, given the experience we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Some Fianna Fáil councillors have learned that so, who knows, perhaps there is hope for the Taoiseach yet.