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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of testing at airports and ports. Last week, the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Deputy Naughton, confirmed that Dublin Airport and Cork Airport have a capacity of just 150 daily PCR tests and that this will increase to just 300 tests by year end. Even taking account of the 91% fall in passenger numbers recorded last month, 8,500 people still pass...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the issue of Dublin Zoo. Zoos across the island are under pressure but Dublin Zoo is in big trouble and we woke this morning to the news that it might face closure. I need not tell the Taoiseach that a closure would be devastating for local employment and the economy, as well as for tourism. Dublin Zoo is one of our key tourist attractions and has occupied a special place for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Public housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's response is incoherent gibberish and he knows it. The Taoiseach has changed his tune from when he sat on the Opposition benches and correctly challenged the Government of the day to give an account of itself and challenged the then Minister for Justice and Equality to give an account of the process by which a selection for a judicial appointment was made. The standards then...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach's Government voted to block the Dáil from putting questions to the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, regarding the appointment of the former Attorney General, Séamus Woulfe, to the Supreme Court. His claim that this would impinge on the separation of powers is utter nonsense, as he well knows. In the Dáil in 2017, the Taoiseach said that any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [34837/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier this year, the HSE commissioned a rapid assessment of a suicide cluster which took place in Ballyfermot last year. The outcome of the assessment was published late last month and it makes heartbreaking and alarming reading. The area considered by the assessment has had a female suicide rate three times the national average since 2015. However, it was the deaths of eight women in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the data protection unit in his Department. [33883/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise two specific matters with the Taoiseach. The first relates to the records of the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries or, as it is more commonly known, the McAleese report. In its statement on mother and baby homes last month, the Government committed to ensuring that the rights of all citizens to access personal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The failure of the Department of Justice to inform the victims or their legal representatives of this data breach has caused untold hurt and concern.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know but these are important matters.

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: First Stage (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Covid-19 has heightened awareness of the depth and breadth of domestic violence and abuse. Every day during the first six months of the pandemic, 19 women and three children contacted a domestic violence service for the first time, seeking support and safety from abuse and coercive control. Coercive control is now a crime and last month's landmark judgment sends a simple message to abusers...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does himself no credit as Head of Government to resist the legitimate and reasonable ask from the Opposition that the Minister for Justice make a statement and take questions on this matter. I remind the Taoiseach that when he was in opposition, he had plenty to say when a former Attorney General was elevated to the Bench of the Appeal Court. At that time, some of his...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to examine this matter and to examine exactly what happened. The only person who can assist us in that regard is the Minister of Justice.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will persist with this matter in respect of the Minister for Justice. As the Taoiseach is aware, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board advises. It is a clearing mechanism for suitable candidates, but it is the Government which decides who the appointee is. Something happened in this process that requires answers. The Taoiseach clearly cannot provide them because he was unaware of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is talking down the clock.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and the Government are denying a request by the Opposition, virtually in its entirety, for the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, to present to make a statement and to take questions relating to the process surrounding the appointment of a justice to the Supreme Court benches. The Taoiseach is being disingenuous in his approach on this matter. He has stated, correctly, that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will this Government on his watch now assist Dublin City Council in the way I have set out-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to ensure that the site is developed efficiently and that it results in affordable housing for people who desperately need it?