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Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the case.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's friends in Fine Gael met their banking buddies. History will record what happened.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is that the Taoiseach's single transferable excuse? It is pathetic.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the implementation of the programme for Government. [29923/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish additional Cabinet committees as outlined in the programme for Government. [29925/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raised with the Taoiseach earlier the issues mortgage holders face. The real shame is that on 30 September the opportunity to extend a full break for mortgage holders was lost. That is on the Taoiseach and it is a big failure of his Government. Can he set out for us very clearly what alternatives, what propositions, he will put to the banks, given that MABS reports that banks, as I said...

Ceisteanna – Questions: National Economic and Social Council (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The National Economic and Social Council, NESC, is hosting the annual conference of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils Network next week. NESC published an important paper earlier this year that addressed employment vulnerability as part of a just transition in Ireland. The paper recommended that Government take steps to improve the evidence base for...

Ceisteanna – Questions: National Economic and Social Council (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department with the National Economic and Social Council. [28558/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: In July, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, announced that he was conducting a review of co-living, despite having stated when in opposition that co-living was "bonkers". Today, yet another co-living application has hit the headlines. This time it is for a 14-storey, 506-bed co-living development in the markets area near Capel Street in Dublin...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is right that the European Banking Authority did indeed oversee and supervise the regime for mortgage breaks. Under those rules, mortgage holders in Germany, Spain and Italy got payment breaks for 12 months. In this State, they got three months followed by another three months, which is six months in total and half the time allowed to mortgage holders in other jurisdictions....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, they are saying to them, "That is too bad. Your mortgage is not sustainable and we are offering you no alternative." That is a recipe for repossession of people's homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Having messed up disgracefully at the end of September by allowing the banks to return to business as usual, I am asking the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, to intervene now to make sure that the banks play ball and offer customers all the relevant options.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The other jurisdictions offered breaks that were interest-free.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, people woke up with a great sense of anxiety and uncertainty about the future. Last night's news that the State was to be moved to level 5 from midnight tomorrow until the end of November was the source of this uncertainty and anxiety. I understand fully that this was a hard decision for the Government. I also know that it is an even harder decision for all those who will...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 119. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of his Department’s estimate for salaries, wages and allowances for 2021. [31367/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 120. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of his Department’s 2021 estimate for a specialised sexual offences unit. [31368/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing of Budgets (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department’s progress in expanding the equality budgeting programme. [31366/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the restrictions in place under level 3 of the living with Covid-19 plan; if clarity will be provided for schools that have been seriously impacted financially by these measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (20 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 611. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the situation impacting doctors who have graduated and are unable to secure an internship place for 2020, noting the financial and clinical impact this has had on these graduates; if he has raised this issue with the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31240/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: When the Government came to draft this budget, it did so against the backdrop of great crises and challenges for Ireland. It was written against the reality of lost jobs and incomes and the tragedy of lost lives. This pandemic is undeniably the most serious crisis we have faced in living memory, and as Brexit looms large on the horizon, there is justifiably a great deal of public anxiety...