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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The past six months were very difficult for people and the next six months will equally be difficult as we face into maybe the most difficult winter season in living memory. Big asks are being made of businesses, as the Taoiseach says, of workers and of families. In that context, any hike in energy costs or any utility cost is quite simply out of the question. We have had a hard time, but...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is excellent and is, I am sure, met with joy universally. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his opening statement. There are many things I might have raised with the Taoiseach today as we return to session. I did not think I would be raising the issue of energy costs, but here we are. This morning, people woke to the news that some 1 million of them are to face higher electricity...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am glad to hear that news about the British-Irish Council. I am, however, disappointed that the Taoiseach is maintaining what I regard as a fairly passive stance towards the absolute necessity for an all-Ireland approach to human health. We have such an approach to animal health. Why on earth would we not have one for human health? The Taoiseach will recall from leaders' meetings before...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The North-South Ministerial Council is the Taoiseach's opportunity to bring his critique of the Northern position on international travel to the table, to debate it with our colleagues and to press for a solution. We will support him in that because that is our view as to what must happen. We need a single island system of protection. That is the only way we will get ahead and stay ahead...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was describing the Taoiseach's passive-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. This is about an all-island approach.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not attack the Government.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The sooner we have some sense of the shape and direction of this new unit, the better. The objective of working towards a shared Ireland and an Ireland in which we have agreement and consensus where that is possible - and we are not going to have consensus on all matters - is worthy. However, there is a need that must also be met in preparing for the reality and prospect of constitutional...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [17251/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the absence of the arts from the July stimulus strategy with the Taoiseach. The Government's treatment of people in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in recent times has been well voiced by all of us in opposition. The Government's decision yesterday evening to oppose the Sinn Féin amendment to the Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020, which...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for public services reform to be driven from his Department. [17249/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee which addresses matters relating to justice. [17250/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality will meet. [18476/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to voice my disappointment and dissatisfaction at the fact that the Taoiseach has consistently failed to answer the very simple questions put by me and Deputy Paul Murphy.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may think that is clever but it is not clever at all. It is disingenuous and unhelpful to the people we represent. The Enough is Enough - Every Voice Counts campaign has been raised this afternoon and I wish to return to it. The stories have been set out of those whose day-care facilities have been closed and the kind of devastation that has meant in their lives for them,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would like the Taoiseach to answer questions. We all like things but it seems we are not going to get them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will it be carried out by the Department, when will we see results from it and when the small number of people involved get their money back?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, the Taoiseach has not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not.