Results 461-480 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (9 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional classrooms by a school (details supplied). [29892/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the arrangements being made to ensure that the parents of children with autism in the Taghmon area of Westmeath will have an appropriate school place for September. [29893/24]
- Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Here we are again, having statements in the Chamber following the news of an utterly chilling act of violence committed against a woman. We are all horrified by the brutal and barbaric assault committed on Natasha O'Brien by Cathal Crotty. The man who perpetrated this crime received a suspended sentence. The Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, has appealed the sentence and I welcome...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [27974/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27973/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the past year, the Government has assured us that the proposition on the future funding of RTÉ would be brought before the Dáil before the summer recess. We have just over a week to go. In the 20 months to April of this year, more than €500,000 has been paid in TV licence fines by ordinary people. In that same time, almost 5,000 people received a conviction for...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I also extend sympathy and solidarity to the families of those precious lives that were lost in counties Mayo and Westmeath. The fundamental problem we have here is that the Taoiseach is failing to face the actual reality on the ground, which is that there is not high-visibility policing in Dublin’s inner city. It is not there. The Taoiseach cited Pride and occasions where there...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last Saturday week on 23 June, Canadian tourist, Neno Dolmajian, was attacked on O'Connell Street in the early hours of the morning. He was viciously beaten, sustained serious injuries and was taken to the Mater hospital. He died there yesterday with his parents and his sister at his bedside. I want to express my deepest sympathies to Mr. Dolmajian's parents, his family and friends. Neno...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raised with the Taoiseach previously the case of Jack McNiffe from County Kildare and the issue of July provision. Funding for students in special classes for the summer programme of the July provision had been reduced from €60 per student in 2022 to €45 in 2023 and now to €30 in 2024. The Taoiseach challenged me when I raised the issue before and he questioned the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has the right view.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, but you can do both.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a unique site.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is crazy. Absolutely crazy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Government not sign that order then?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Correct.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the outcomes of the child poverty and well-being summit. [28184/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The EU directive on adequate minimum wages is a significant opportunity to improve workers' rights and increase productivity in the Irish economy. The success of the directive relies on the domestic legislation underpinning it and the plan on collective bargaining that will be presented to European Commission as part of its transposition. The need for collective bargaining to be protected...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know whether the issue of support for Mrs. von der Leyen to have another term of office leading the European Commission came up at the Taoiseach's Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination. The Taoiseach might advise us whether it did. I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Government that professes to be serious about Palestinian rights would weigh in behind von der Leyen...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Taoiseach raise the issue of Israel with her?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: What did she say?