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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should be accurate.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach about the HIQA report into nursing homes which contained some very damning observations. It is absolutely apparent that nursing homes did not conform to any satisfactory level of clinical governance and were left without the human and practical resources necessary to protect residents and staff. We know how all of this ended. It ended with many people losing their lives...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: We must do the work now and throughout August to ensure this committee can speedily work in order we learn the lessons and the families affected have some platform for their real experiences to be recorded and responded to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government have an intervention for those families?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach his Government’s handling of the issue of international travel. There is absolute public confusion and a lack of public confidence in the Government’s whole approach which has been marked as cack-handed and, frankly, operating on a wing and a prayer. Yesterday the Taoiseach was at odds with the Tánaiste, and the confusion between the two...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I hope that the Tánaiste desists from the type of sniping that the Taoiseach has described. We need an all-island approach, and I hope that the North-South Ministerial Council meeting next week will provide an opportunity for Dublin to step forward, stop being passive, and to champion that very approach. Our position is well known within the five party Executive, which is that we need...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is dishonest.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Very little is being done with our clout internationally.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should do his job and not worry about Capitol Hill. He should worry about here and what is done here in the name of the Irish people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach cannot change American policy, he can change Irish policy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I suggest that we finish out the Palestinian conversation and then Deputy Boyd Barrett gets his questions answered?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not strictly in accordance with Standing Orders, but how and ever.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Quite irrespective of what anybody on Capitol Hill might think, and our position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is well recorded and fully understood everywhere, the fact is that we have the power here to recognise the state of Palestine. As the Taoiseach knows, that matter was settled and agreed by the Oireachtas six years ago. I am saying to him to do it, and to do it while there...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I need a point to be clarified.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach will be aware that earlier this year the Israeli and US Administrations announced an intention to further annex the West Bank and East Jerusalem by seizing an additional 30% of that landmass after 1 July. The Taoiseach will be very well aware that this would hollow out the existing state of Palestine. It would fatally damage any remaining prospect of a sustainable two-state...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I too would like to hear a very clear answer to those questions in respect of the health funding. Given that we are in the throes of a global pandemic and a public health emergency, it is extraordinary that moneys promised for a health programme would vanish like snow off a ditch, it seems, and we need to know what position the Taoiseach took on that. I would also like a clearer answer...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: When we think of the difficulties that were experienced across the European Union and beyond in respect of the provision of personal protective equipment, PPE, and the really harrowing scenes we saw in hospitals - I am thinking of northern Italy, where it was a race for ventilators - and reflecting on the fact that many Italians, understandably, took the view that the European Union did not...