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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]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has convened the well-being expert group. [27069/20]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: When he stands up to respond, will the Taoiseach tell us when the two errors in respect of the calculated grades came to light? I know this news will be deeply concerning to students across the land and it seems quite something that errors of this magnitude have occurred but I would like to know when the Government first discovered them. Can the Taoiseach confirm which Departments and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, at 6.30 in the morning, Derryroe Limited, a development company, bulldozed No. 40 Herbert Park. This was the home of The O’Rahilly, who was killed in action during the 1916 Rising. As the Taoiseach knows, he was the leader of the Irish Volunteers and the campaign to save this house in which he lived received very widespread and deserved support right across the public....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Níl aon phlean ag an Taoiseach. Is í sin an fhírinne. Tá a lán le rá aige ach níl aon phlean aige. He cited the extraordinary income support measures that were introduced by Government. Of course, the Government has cut the pandemic unemployment payment and the wage subsidy and it has left tens of thousands of the lowest income workers out of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, released an important paper on the impact of Covid-19 on the housing supply. It argues that the pandemic will result in a drop in the private sector supply of new homes. This will further widen the gap between supply and demand, making housing even more unaffordable for working people. The ESRI's central recommendation is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Broadcasting Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The commission is to consider the future of print, broadcast and online media in what is described as "a platform-agnostic fashion", which is an interesting turn of phrase. Consideration needs to be given to the differing regulatory frameworks governing online media and traditional media. I think all Members present agree on the absolute importance and urgency of the work of the commission....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (29 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has hearing difficulties.