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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not a bit sensitive. I am not remotely sensitive.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am all for housing. I oppose homelessness.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should get cracking.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The word I used was "squandering".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit. [21618/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [21616/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The National Economic and Social Council's view is that Ireland must evolve from a speculative and highly cyclical system to a permanently affordable, stable and more sustainable system of housing. The council’s recommended actions to deliver change in the area of housing are concerned with bridging the supply gap by actively managing land for the public good and the affordability gap...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are worrying aspects to of all this, leaving aside the delay. Can the Taoiseach tell us with any certainty whether the work will be completed in October? Aside from the costs, which are shaping up to be astronomical, quite frankly, and the slow pace, this investigation is starting to look and feel very much like a tribunal. The idea of these commissions was to allow for a thorough...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raised with the Taoiseach on a number of occasions the need to end restrictions in maternity hospitals for pregnant women and their partners. I am sure the Taoiseach has heard, as I have, the really heartbreaking stories from many people about the hardship this has caused. Put simply, partners are not visitors and they must have access, along with the pregnant women, for appointments,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, initiatives.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: A number of the Taoiseach's colleagues objected to those as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: State land for public housing, not for the Taoiseach's developer friends.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: You do realise you are the Taoiseach and the Head of Government but this is your response to the young people of this country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are a disgrace.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are a disgrace. The young people of this country see you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let the House record that we are in the grip of a housing crisis, which is a social crisis and a social catastrophe for people up and down the length of this State. The Head of Government, the Taoiseach, instead of setting out what he and his Government propose to do to put a stop to the gallop of these investment funds that are deepening the crisis and causing so much hardship, reaches for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: God help us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The front of this morning’s newspaper editions reminds us again of the severity of the rent crisis and of how an entire generation is locked out of affordable, secure housing. Rents have doubled in the last decade. The average rent statewide now stands at an eye-watering €1,443 per month. That is, of course, a shocking figure but will not come as a shock to those caught up in...