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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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We all share the Taoiseach’s view and all of us find it difficult to reconcile that Ireland, not in the dim and distant past but in the recent past, was such a hostile place for vulnerable women and their children. I said in my opening remarks that that is a shared view and the correct view. This, therefore, is not simply data. This is information and testimony that relates, as the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is attacking me, actually.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is being very aggressive and it is entirely unnecessary.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should go back and listen to himself.

Other Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Ceann Comhairle will have to try to hide his disappointment and compose himself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: What happened to women and children behind the high walls of Ireland's mother and baby homes casts a long and a dark shadow. For decades, these homes were shrouded in secrecy and the awful abuse of single mothers, the forced separation of families and the horrors of what happened in places like Tuam is still hard to comprehend. Those who survived these institutions, those who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she is ensuring that educators are following the HSE guidelines and protocols for children with respiratory problems in schools; and the description of face covering. [30377/20]