Results 361-380 of 21,085 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish the school in Clontibret and educators beyond that all the very best in Monaghan, but Deputy Carthy brought me to meet these families. They are who we met and they could recite the stats just as well as the Minister, maybe even better than her. They are still left with the reality that there is no special school in Monaghan. The special classrooms have their place and are extremely...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will be interested to hear what action you took. I am sure the parties will avail of that opportunity.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will wait to see what the Government will do on that. Transparency goes both ways, ladies and gentlemen.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the Order of Business, I wish to raise the issue of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and events as they have unfolded in Lebanon. We are now one year into this absolute catastrophe. Hell still reigns down on innocent civilian and refugee populations. We are now in a situation in which our own peacekeepers are really in the way of danger. The Taoiseach has left the Chamber. He will meet...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----as we witness an ongoing genocide. He is not here to answer that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put it to the Chief Whip and the Government that we need time to discuss what is happening in the Middle East, not least the situation of our own peacekeepers.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well, am I speaking to the Order of Business or-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you. First of all, if you will indulge me, a Cheann Comhairle, if the Government wants to schedule statements on the important issues of child protection and safeguarding, that is in its gift. I want to be clear that, for our part, these unauthorised references to which the Minister of State has referred were unacceptable and reprehensible. Action has been taken. The two...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I visited Crumlin yesterday, as it happens, and spoke to a number of families who have children and young people with autism. We spoke about lots of things such as school places and so on. The one issue that came up with them and that I hear again and again - it is not recent; it is a long-standing issue - is the means test for the carer's allowance. I spoke to one woman yesterday who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Carers do extraordinary work all across Ireland. They show incredible dedication to vulnerable loved ones they care for: parents who care for children and young adults with complex needs, those who look after their elderly parents and those who care for family members with disabilities. Caring is work done with love, but it is work. It is 24-7 every day and every night non-stop. Carers do...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: They will continue to pay big fees, continue to search for spaces that do not exist, and continue to be stressed today and worried about the future. Our plan would deliver the change they need, not just soundbites. It is a plan to make childcare affordable at €10 a day per child by next September, a plan to deliver early years educators and childcare professionals the pay increase...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have heard the Government oscillate between self-congratulatory backslapping and defensive, self-righteous attack rhetoric, neither of which is grounded in any sense of reality. I notice the Taoiseach is not here to participate in this debate. That is a first in my recollection. Perhaps, after all the bragging and hot air, the Taoiseach cannot present himself to stand by and stand over...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is actually mental.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, homelessness and dereliction. First-time buyer-----

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Fianna Fáil way-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Just like in Gaza.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The clinicians give the clinical advice. I am not asking the Taoiseach for clinical advice. Why would I?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am suggesting nothing of the sort.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I kindly ask the Taoiseach, when I raise the issue of a 13-year-old boy with a 120o curvature of his spine who has waited five years for his surgery, not to insult him or his mother, Keara - do not mind me - with smart alec, slick responses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: This child has waited five years. This child is suffering. This child can be treated in the United States. The clinicians have told Keara, his mother, that four weeks of halo-gravity traction treatment, which she cannot access here, and then another four weeks will be needed, at least, for the surgery, which will be complex but those surgeons can do it. She needs clarity. She has been...