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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sunday's National Day of Commemoration remembered all those killed during the Tan War and marked the anniversary, as the Taoiseach said, of the Truce. The all-party decade of centenaries advisory group has met just twice online. This group needs to be facilitated in playing a much more proactive role in developing a complete, and I would suggest more grassroots and community-driven,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is very clear that the full and safe reopening of the hospitality sector is urgent so that businesses can open, workers can get back to work and people can interact socially once again. Instead of a thought-out orderly plan to make this happen we have, once again, a last minute scramble from the three parties of government to produce legislation that is discriminatory, ill thought-out and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: What we need is a plan to include everyone and not a plan to exclude some. That is fundamentally wrong and flawed and it is wrong to force it through in this rushed manner.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach propose to answer a question rather than make attack points against members of the Opposition? That would be a refreshing change.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put a question to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Public land should be used for building public housing - social and affordable housing - full stop. The days of Fianna Fáil and its crony friends, the big developers, creaming off at the people’s expense should be over. I would have thought the Taoiseach would have learned that from catastrophes past but perhaps he has not. He is confirming that €1 billion will be spent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I extend a very warm welcome to Deputy Bacik. Fáilte mhór agus comhghairdeas. Well done on a very convincing and wonderful victory. She is now the 37th woman in the House and that is good news for all of us. Congratulations to Ivana. We all look forward very much to working with her. Last week, the Taoiseach and his Government forced through an amendment to legislation dealing...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 173. To ask the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for quarter 2 of 2021 on the website of his Department. [37374/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish Prison Service has provided her with a report of an incident which took place in 2021 in Cloverhill Prison during which a male prison guard instructed a female solicitor to remove her underwear when her bra set off a metal detector when attending for a visit with a client on an urgent matter, and if she will meet...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission a review into the practices and policies within the Irish prison system which resulted in a male prison guard instructing a female solicitor to remove their underwear when their bra set off a metal detector in order for them to meet with their client on an urgent matter; and if she will make a statement...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [36219/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting of 24 and 25 June 2021. [34761/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [34760/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach inform us what the final cost of the new national children's hospital will be? Just over €1.4 billion was the amount agreed at Cabinet but it emerged today at a joint committee that, of 900 claims in total, only a handful have been settled. It now seems inevitable that costs will overrun substantially. The committee was unable to get clarity on this point from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is failing and failing miserably.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is failing miserably with its eyes wide open. It is shameful

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Níl sé seo maith go leor. Níl plean an Taoisigh ag obair. Leanfaidh na cistí ar aghaidh leis seo agus tá sé sin náireach. These investment, vulture and cuckoo funds have not been reined in; far from it. The Government facilitates their actions. Not alone does the Government allow them to snap up entire apartment blocks and houses, it incentivises them...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is about big bucks and big funds muscling into the property market with the assistance of the Government and, meanwhile, our citizens, families and communities are left with no real chance to ever buy or own their own homes. The most despicable part of this is that, tonight, the Government will sneakily move this through, using the guillotine, with virtually no debate. It is the same...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have made the case to the Taoiseach on countless occasions that the half measures he has introduced to rein in cuckoo funds are woefully inadequate and simply will not work. Apartments, which are perfectly decent homes, are excluded from the Government's plans. This leaves ordinary workers and families, especially in Dublin but in other cities also, at the mercy of these funds that can...