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Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: One year ago, Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a brutal and criminal war on its peaceful neighbour, Ukraine. In doing so, he unleashed the largest land conflict and the greatest displacement of people in Europe for nearly 80 years. Russia's attack on and bombardment of the Ukrainian people is an attack on sovereignty, on peace and on the right of a nation to be free. It is a vicious and...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...The time for equivocating is over and the exceptionalism being applied to Israel has to stop. I put it to the Tánaiste, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and to his colleagues in government, that Ireland now needs to step up. We need to step up if we are to have any hope of breaking this cycle in the Middle East or ending the endless war of attrition and the endless targeting of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...not once but twice to disclose a donation in back-to-back elections from the same wealthy supporter. This is a supporter who has secured lucrative State contracts, was appointed to the powerful Land Development Agency by Fine Gael outside of the normal process and was appointed as chair of the north-east inner city programme implementation board. Mr. Stone has now resigned from both...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...donation of a postering service, Michael Stone, at that time headed the Construction Industry Federation, the organisation that represents developers. Mr. Stone was subsequently appointed by Fine Gael to the Land Development Agency outside of the normal process. This demonstrates again how politics work in Ireland. There is a cosy club culture that sees Fine Gael Ministers slip...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...with various sectors north of the Border. I, too, hope we get to a position where we have a functioning Executive, a First Minister for all and a functioning assembly. That is where this needs to land. However, it is essential everybody understands that the alternative to that is not a return to direct rule from London. We need to be very upfront and frank with our unionist colleagues...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... The fear of disconnection is very real and very present for them. This will only get worse as people scramble to keep up with the soaring cost of living. The October bills are arriving now. They are landing like a body blow. I spoke to a woman last night who told me that the heart was put crossways in her when she saw her bill. She said she felt winded. That is how she described...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...I am very concerned that there is not a sense of pace in the Taoiseach's response to this situation, which is one of incredible stress and worry for hundreds of thousands of families throughout the land. The Taoiseach's concern about people falling into debt is understandable but I need to say that a far greater concern for those using prepaid meters is that they will not have supply to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...certainty. They do not protect people from the continuous barrage of hikes. In fact, when the Government introduced its initial energy credit, it was too slow. It was wiped out by further price hikes before it even landed into people’s accounts. Therefore, this is clearly a flawed approach. Households need a Government response that matches the scale of the crisis. I believe...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to the Tánaiste in December to carry on as normal, because it is very clear that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in power for far too long and, by God, families and workers throughout the land have paid a heavy price for that. More and more people see that we need a change of Government, not just a change of Taoiseach. The coalition is stuck in the past, a Government...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----making the right choices. Simply put, we need a government that builds public homes on public land at a massive scale and these must be homes-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the can for any school that would seek to exclude a child. However, there has to be a level of honesty here. There is absolutely an issue around resourcing, also. Furthermore, the courts in this land have found that the Government has broken the law in respect of the Disability Act 2005. The State has not been honourable-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... I asked him a question. We have a motion coming before the Dáil this evening, which is crystal clear. It sets out very clearly a call from the Oireachtas for full public ownership of the land. To be clear, by that I mean a clean transfer of ownership in perpetuity to the State of that site. I understand that the Government will support the motion, or at least it does not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...will be built. I also expressed my astonishment that neither the Taoiseach nor the Minister for Health had made any substantial effort to convince St. Vincent's Healthcare Group to transfer that land to the State. Furthermore, I proposed that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, should meet urgently with the board of that group to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for the women of this country that for far too long we were denied. He also ought to be struck that there is no doubt in the mind of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group as to who owns the land. It is very clear. It is very clear that it is the landowner. It was also clear in setting out at the committee meeting that there was no meaningful engagement on the part of the Taoiseach or the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...on the deal for the new national maternity hospital. Instead of securing a clean-cut transaction where the site will come into public ownership, the deal ensures the hospital will have a private landlord under a very convoluted ownership model. This is the wrong decision. It falls short of protecting the State's proposed investment of between €800 million and €1 billion of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...€10 a year for 299 or 300 years is effective public ownership. The question is this. That being the case, why is it that there has not simply been a clean transaction and a transfer of this land to the State? That is actually the question. If the Taoiseach is saying that it is public ownership in all but name, why is it not full public ownership? That is the first question....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why not make public ownership in all but name actual, legally certain public ownership of this land? That is actually the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., there should be absolute clarity on the separation of Church and State. They go on to observe that the necessary public trust and confidence "would be better achieved if the State owned the land on which the hospital [will be] built". Now that comes from two eminently qualified professionals who were centrally involved in planning for the new maternity hospital. Their concerns, it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...experience and a determination that that will never happen again. The Taoiseach has talked about a tenner a year for 300 years. He is trying to pass that off as public ownership. He says the land was gifted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The crux of this issue is that the land has not been gifted.