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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----which was an incredibly daft and dangerous proposition. The Deputy persists in advising the Taoiseach to think out loud about customs and checks and where they should be located. Can I offer the Taoiseach absolutely contrary advice? I believe that is dangerous.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have agreed on a collective position that there can be no hardening of the Border and no damage to the Good Friday Agreement. I advise the Taoiseach that as the clock ticks down and the pressure mounts, and as Boris Johnson and the British system are desperately fishing for an out, this is not the moment for the Head of Government in this State to think out loud or to make any proposition...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Counselling the Taoiseach in the way Deputy Martin has done is enormously dangerous. The message to Boris Johnson, the Tories and the British state needs to be much more clear-cut.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Martin was calling for it to be pulled down long before the scandal that brought it down.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: He should go away and stop being silly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a silly response.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cyber Security Policy (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: In a submission to the Committee on Justice and Equality this month, Women's Aid again highlighted the absence of specific cyberharassment or cyberstalking legislation. As the Taoiseach knows, various avenues of criminal and civil law can be used to a limited degree, but they fall well short of what is needed to deal with cyberharassment. Women's Aid suggests that a specific...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which agricultural issues are discussed; and when it last met. [37278/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the issue of the open letter of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, which was issued on social media and addressed to farmers at picket lines across the country. I do not believe the Minister's intervention was helpful. It does not represent the kind of leadership required at this very sensitive point in this dispute. Those who are on the picket lines are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too commend the women and men of Dublin for an extraordinary eight in a row in total - a eight in a row aggregate is wonderful - and Tipp, of course, for the hurling victory.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure they did. The Taoiseach says the Department will publish the report of the Commissioner for Data Protection on the public services card. The commissioner has found that important aspects of the card are unlawful. I do not think many of us were very surprised by that. I refer to the unlawful retention of the personal data of millions of citizens as well as the Government's...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: There will not be any.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is more than that.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a very disappointing response. It matters not a whit whether Deputy Micheál Martin, the Taoiseach or anyone else in the House endorses this agreement if it is not sellable and does not work for the farmers who are out on the picket lines. That is what matters. I am disappointed that the Taoiseach would try to use this issue to provoke a party-political fracas. It is not...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The farmers who continue to protest and picket outside meat processing factories are fighting for their livelihoods and for the future of the family farm. The Taoiseach's words will offer them little hope and comfort. In the midst of the figures that he rattled off, he did not mention, even though he should have, that many beef farmers made less than €10,000 per year. Despite doing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the cybercrime Bill will be published to give effect to those provisions of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime 2001 of the Council of Europe not already provided for in national law in order to enable ratification of the convention. [37279/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parole Boards (17 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has issued guidance to the Irish Prison Service on the implementation of the Parole Act 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37359/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Administration (6 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual operating cost for the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council in 2018 and 2019, respectively. [34971/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gender Proofing of Policies (6 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is utilising the SWITCH model in its development of gender budgeting processes to be implemented across all Departments. [34980/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing of Budgets (6 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will prepare an annual equality budget statement to be read by him alongside the Budget Statement as recommended by the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight. [34983/19]