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Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I simply want to know what has changed between 2018 and now. This was to be a priority. It was a must do item. What has changed the Government's perspective?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [17457/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, the Minister for Justice and Equality brought a memo to Cabinet in respect of a study to be carried out on the introduction of domestic homicide reviews in addition to other supports for victims of familicide. I extend again my deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Clodagh Hawe, including her mother Mary and her sister Jacqueline, and those of her three sons, Liam,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: These suggestions need to be fully considered.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15017/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach said, a no-deal outcome remains a real and most undesirable possibility in the Brexit scenario. This is causing huge difficulties across Irish society, North and South. Damage is already accruing to many industrial and economic sectors, not least agriculture and farming. Also, the population has been unnerved by the lack of clarity around whether a deal will in fact be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a decision which the majority of Irish people support. I resent deeply the spending of even 1 cent of the taxes I pay to facilitate participation in what should be a celebratory event but which is now deeply unacceptable for being held in Israel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Taoiseach has a view on that matter, he might share it with us.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, the rent pressure zone legislation is doing nothing for renters - that is the fact - who are facing rents of between €1,300 and €2,200 on new homes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear that we need new measures that will work. What we need immediately is a rent freeze. I am asking if the Taoiseach will finally accept that his plans have failed and act definitively to protect renters.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not protecting them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, in response to the publication of the latest quarterly report from daft.iesaid that rents are rising at a slow rate. Meanwhile in the real world, average rents are in excess of €1,300 across the State, an increase of 8% on the same time last year, and average rents stand in Dublin at over...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that. The best way to proceed is for the contract to be made public. If I am correct, I understand the Minister, Deputy Bruton, has undertaken to make that request of Granahan McCourt. This is the best way to go forward. I do not accept the Taoiseach's analysis that risk is being equally shared. Perhaps, more importantly, that is not the conclusion arrived at by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: On what basis does the Taoiseach assert this certainty?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá ceist agam faoi broadband arís. Caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil sé dochreidte go bhfuil Granahan McCourt ag íoc €220 milliún agus an cáiníocóir ag íoc €3 billiún. It is crucial that we deliver high-speed broadband to rural Ireland because people want, need and deserve it. That means actual delivery, not delivering an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 340. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a MRI scan in Cappagh hospital. [20716/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government promises to reform the HSE into a more efficient, transparent health service. Over the weekend the Taoiseach was forced to apologise to four pathologists in University Hospital Waterford whose very serious assertions regarding unacceptable conditions at the mortuary he had dismissed out of hand. The pathologists outlined that due to inadequate body storage and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: How much?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is very coy but he does not display the same reticence in naming the figure for the taxpayer, with €3 billion rolling off his tongue. He does not have to convince anyone in this Chamber or beyond of the need for rural broadband; far from it. I remind him that officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform - and I understand their concerns were also held by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: How much private money is involved?