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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.

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.