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

Mary Lou McDonald: Somebody did.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Welfare and solidarity payments should not be abused. We are all in agreement on that point. If there is any malpractice or fraud, it must be addressed. The circumstances we now face do not relate to corruption or malpractice but to a decision taken by the Government to openly and blatantly discriminate against workers who are on a Covid payment. Having issued inconsistent and confused...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Taoiseach who has broken the consensus and the notion that we are all in this together by sending inspectors to airports seeking out those on Covid payments. That is what has happened. I put it to the Taoiseach that in so doing, the Government acted outside the law. I would like him to state to the Dáil the legal basis upon which individuals were approached to establish...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [18475/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The allowance of €30,000 can, in fact, be payable to a party of Government. I take it the Taoiseach is not now in receipt of that allowance. Is it fair to say then that he stopped being receipt of that allowance once he received his seal of office from Uachtarán na hÉireann? The Taoiseach might clarify that. On the plan, all of us want to see children back in school...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Following on from my previous question, I am happy to correct my assertion that the Taoiseach's top-up was €50,000. It was, as he correctly stated, €30,000. Will he inform the House at what point he stopped receiving that top-up payment? Will the Taoiseach also tell us what contribution or engagement the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change has had on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on the Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [18795/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020 that the Government is seeking to rush through the Dáil this week is a far cry from the Fianna Fáil new deal for renters that was promised by the Taoiseach just a few months ago. In fact, he and his Government are now moving to allow for rent increases, notices to quit and the misery that will ensue in the heat of a global pandemic....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18794/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is incorrect.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to record our disappointment at the fact that Government parties have voted to maintain a discriminatory system which penalises people on the Covid payment. That is a disgraceful action, particularly given the public backlash over the €16,000 pay increase for three super junior Ministers. I understand the Taoiseach has been publicly shamed into stepping back from that position...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it true that the Taoiseach's salary, notwithstanding this cut, will be €1,500 higher than that of his predecessor, Deputy Varadkar?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I said earlier to the Taoiseach, it is clear that this is blatant discrimination against one section of the population. It is a policy that would penalise them uniquely, not others, for travelling overseas even though the Government's advice is just advice, and confused and ambiguous advice. It is important that the statutory instrument in question is rescinded. There is a motion on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Taoiseach is not suggesting that those 287,000 recipients of the Covid payment are scamming the system or that they qualify as scammers. I would like him to make that very clear. These are people who have lost work and hope to return to work as soon as they possibly can. They are out of work because we are in the throes of a public health emergency. It is the case that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It does feel like the Government is picking on a very particular section of the population. The Taoiseach avoided each and every one of my questions, so let me put a very straightforward question to him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: An individual in receipt of the Covid payment will be penalised by loss of that payment should he or she travel abroad. Will the Taoiseach tell us when that decision was taken and who decided to change the social welfare guidance? Was it the Tánaiste or the Taoiseach and was it discussed at Cabinet? More to the point, will he tell us if he sees fit to end this ludicrous, farcical and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: They were the Taoiseach's words.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, we had the debacle around the Government's green list. Its travel advice was, and is, confused and ambiguous and relies on citizens using their best judgment. Personally, I would prefer that nobody travel abroad this year but the fact remains that we have been given advice only, not a firm instruction, much less a legal requirement. Despite this, the Government has taken it upon...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to correspondence issued by this Deputy on 29 June 2020 regarding the decision made by Dublin Bus to cancel provision of school transport services to a school (details supplied), the reason for the decision; if he has raised the matter with Dublin Bus; if he has raised the issue with the Minister for Education and Skills; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the delay in receiving leaving certificate calculated grades will impact on students that have applied to study at an EU member state university many of whom require results in August 2020 to secure an offer of a place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18194/20]