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Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: By stopping all other activity in the services.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach seems to have difficulty even accepting publicly or saying out loud that the Government did in fact cut the pandemic unemployment payment. We know it was initially envisaged as a 12-week intervention. We know now that this was not the case. We know this is a protracted period of a public health and an economic crisis for workers across the State. The cut that was made has to...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It should certainly be higher than €203.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy McDonald is avoiding nothing.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should not mislead the Dáil. That is entirely untrue. That is inaccurate. That is wrong information.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate the point just made. We now have access to the letter written from NPHET to the Minister for Health, which found its way into the public domain; I do not know how. Perhaps the Taoiseach knows but I do not know how it found its way into the public domain on Sunday evening. It was private correspondence. In any event, that is all we have. The production and publication of data...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was talking about Philip Nolan's-----

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, 12 trade organisations and 429 businesses from the hospitality and events sector wrote an open letter to the Taoiseach. I assume he has read that letter. He will know that the vast majority of these businesses are indigenous. He will know that they are now at their wits' end and are calling on the Government to make a series of emergency interventions to ensure their businesses...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [28557/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate the concerns over the news of cases and a cluster in a nursing home. I presume that we have a better plan for residents in nursing homes and those who run them than we had last spring. I have raised the issue of testing and tracing with the Taoiseach time out of number. We are being contacted increasingly by parents across the State who are facing lengthy delays for tests...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government cut the pandemic unemployment payment and the wage subsidy. That is the reality. For all of those in low paid work to whom the Taoiseach referred, and whom he correctly said are disproportionately affected by a very severe lockdown, let me tell him that the fact the Government cut these important supports looms large and is to the forefront of their thoughts when there is any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was with no other care in the system.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday was a critical day in our fight against Covid-19. The Taoiseach and I spoke yesterday afternoon as he considered the public health advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET. I am glad the Taoiseach also spoke to Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster about strengthening the all-Ireland approach. There is no doubt that the decision facing Government yesterday was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will she come to the House today?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the statement be delivered on the floor of the Dáil?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet Committee that deals with matters relating to the Defence Forces. [27068/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Two errors have been discovered in the calculated grading system. Are we satisfied that there are no other errors? Is there a possibility that this new expertise and review might, in fact, turn up other problems or errors? The Taoiseach said the objective of keeping the information to themselves was to prioritise contact with students. What has been the nature of that contact? There has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: This really is the icing on the cake, the final cock-up for the class of 2020. It will have ramifications not just for that class, but for secondary school students in fifth and sixth year who were already anxious and went back to school at the height of a pandemic. They look to the State and the people in charge for some reassurance that they have some idea what they are doing, and here we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic Plan (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: When was the Department made aware of this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic Plan (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a high level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [25392/20]