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

Mary Lou McDonald: How much private money? Is it €500 million? Is it €100 million?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: After decades of neglect of rural Ireland, having asset-stripped rural Ireland and having delivered one broken promise after another now on the eve of an election, the Government pulls what I can only describe as a cynical political stunt - a confidence trick. The documentation, which is voluminous and which it will take some to read in its totality, reflects that there is a fundamental...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is a cynical way for the Government to do its business. I do not know what, if any, explanation there is for publication of these documents five minutes before Leaders' Questions. I am also not sure where the Taoiseach is. As the Head of the Government the Taoiseach is the person to whom questions should be put and who should give the answers on behalf of the Government. I support...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda districts and or stations in which gardaí have received training in coercive control prior to or following the enactment of the Domestic Violence Act 2018, in tabular form. [19793/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 646. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment to have cataracts removed. [18548/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1341. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) has completed their examination into the legal and scientific considerations relating to the collection of DNA samples by the State for the purpose of returning human remains in Tuam, County Galway, to identifiable relatives for dignified burial; and if so, when the report will be published. [18442/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The horrific attacks in Christchurch one month ago left all of us numb. As has been said, Christchurch, New Zealand is the last place one would imagine this might happen. There is a central lesson in that, namely, that no part of our globe is immune from this toxic cancer of hatred. There is no doubt that we have much to do in our own society to ensure cohesion. Deputy Burton referred...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The reality is that Brexit represents a real and present danger to the Good Friday Agreement and all of the apparatus, infrastructure, human rights' standards, equality provisions, parity of esteem and the citizenship protections that go with it. That is the actual truth. There is another truth. The DUP has gone into hiding, into the embrace of Theresa May at Westminster, and they are in...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [16452/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The practice normally is to go to Fianna Fáil. I do not mind.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Martin has it the wrong way around with regard to his assertion that the institutions have not been functioning. I deeply regret this and it is disgraceful we do not have institutions of government up and running more than two years on. We know the history of this. We had landed on an accommodation the DUP could not carry. I will not get into a blame game but that is what happened....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Whereas the Taoiseach correctly stated the additional extension of time for the British Government and Parliament to get its house in order lessens the prospect of an imminent crash, the threat is not entirely removed. There is no such thing as a good Brexit for us. I have spoken to people throughout the country and those in farming say the Brexit damage is being done as we speak. Whereas...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: They have been left entirely.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in preparing for a hard Brexit. [15016/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Calleary sounded decidedly clingy in his contribution. The Taoiseach may wish to reassure him after this sitting that all is well with Fine Gael and its partners in Fianna Fáil. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is preparing legislation to provide lawfully for the phased forensic excavation of the Tuam mother and baby home. The commission's report into the burial...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a small mercy that we were not reliant on the Taoiseach and his Government for rural electrification because there would still be debate about Ardnacrusha power plant. We would still be in the dark, lighting candles and hoping for the best. The Government used the wrong procurement process. The process was supposed to generate a dynamic of competitiveness and yet there is a sole...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is just daft.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: With every day that passes, the process surrounding the national broadband plan becomes ever more reminiscent of the debacle that now surrounds the cost of the national children's hospital. When I pressed the Taoiseach on this here yesterday, he admitted and confirmed for the first time that the cost of the broadband plan could reach €3 billion, despite the original cost estimate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Homicide (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 26 March 2019, when a reply will be provided. [17932/19]