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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.

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]