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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (16 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take following the adoption of a resolution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (11 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a defined benefit pension scheme (details supplied) has been closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17033/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits that the Government will actively fulfil its mandate as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. Today marks the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. That agreement has delivered peace and fundamentally changed relationships across Ireland and the relationship with Britain. It promised power sharing, equality and the potential...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: For those of us who live in the real world, let me set out what has happened. There has been a €450 million overrun and counting. Those are public moneys that will have to be found somewhere. This whole fiasco has been overseen by a Minister who is clearly incompetent. At this stage he is a lame duck Minister whom the Government, with the assistance of Fianna Fáil, insists on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not an underestimate, it is an overestimate

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Our health service is in a state of perpetual crisis. Overcrowding at our accident and emergency departments and hospitals worsens by the day and yesterday the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar became the latest hospital to announce it was at maximum capacity and to advise patients to stay away. That follows the dangerous level of overcrowding we have witnessed in Cork University...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Office of the Information Commissioner was consulted by his officials when drafting the Retention of Records Bill 2019. [16826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Data Protection Commission was consulted by his officials when drafting the Retention of Records Bill 2019. [16827/19]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim buíoch as an deis labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo um thráthnóna. Once again, the European Council meets tomorrow to discuss the Brexit debacle and specifically to discuss another request by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, for an extension to the Article 50 process. Brexit was a bad decision made worse by the refusal of the British Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would have thought that the DUP's position is very clear. I want to raise the DeSouza case as well. Does Deputy Burton have a problem?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The DeSouza case represents a real breach of faith by the British Home Office, which, as has been pointed out, now insists that persons are British citizens even when they clearly are not. Not only that, people now have to pay the princely sum of £400 in order to renounce a Britishness that does not pertain to them. This case has caused very considerable anger right across the North of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think that is a very worthy question in respect of Palestine and I would be interested to hear the Taoiseach's answer. It is hard, when we look at Germany now and witness its political and economic strength, to imagine what it was like 30 years ago when it was divided, disunited and split by the iron curtain. I very much welcomed the fact that Chancellor Merkel made the equivalence...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: What I would like to know is the extent to which the Taoiseach has had discussions with Chancellor Merkel in respect of Irish reunification. Has he started that conversation? I imagine it is a conversation in respect of which she could offer very valuable insights and perhaps some wisdom.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Northern Ireland and the meetings and engagements he attended. [12012/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk. [15015/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tomorrow marks the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. It was and is an agreement that, despite the challenges that remain as a result of the partition of our country, we can collectively hold up as an illustration that tolerance and inclusivity are the way forward for our island. Over the past two decades, our island has changed beyond recognition and for the better....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach following events and listening to the increasingly hawkish rhetoric from the Israeli Government? As he is aware, there is an election taking place in Israel today and the Prime Minister, Mr. Netanyahu, has pledged that if he is re-elected, he will annex illegal settlements. As the Taoiseach is aware, the settlements are in contravention of international law and have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps the Taoiseach knows more about the situation in the North than in the jurisdiction of which he is Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael thinks it is hilarious.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where is it?