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Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to add my voice of sympathy and to extend my condolences to everybody who has buried a loved one in these most heartbreaking of circumstances. It is important to acknowledge that from the start the right model and approach was adopted in response to the public health emergency and credit is due to everybody for that. The approach being test, isolate and trace and to do that in a...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh míle maith agat. I thank everyone who sent me kind wishes. Thank you all very much. It was very thoughtful of you. Having been sick and having experienced the virus at first hand, it sharpens one's understanding of everything surrounding this public health emergency, most particularly the big gap there has been between, on the one hand, the very ambitious announcements...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will share time with Deputy Louise O'Reilly. Across this island there are citizens, families and communities bracing themselves for what will be a very tough few months. The crisis presents us with the challenge of our lifetime to protect health, defend livelihoods and save lives. Nobody here has all the answers to all the challenges we face but we have been elected and we have a job...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Deputy.

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The duty for all of us living on this island is to be sensible, thoughtful, not to panic and to do everything we can to stop the spread of coronavirus. People are naturally concerned. The WHO has said we are in "uncharted territory". However, we are not in a war. On this island, we now have nine confirmed cases, eight of which are linked to travel to Italy and one a case of community...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have not had the opportunity to discuss issues relating to the EU since the UK formally left the EU on 31 January. I begin my remarks, therefore, by paying tribute to the former Sinn Féin MEP for the North of Ireland, Martina Anderson. I commend her on her tireless work and effort as a Member of the European Parliament for the past eight years. Go raibh míle maith agat,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to be careful in the mechanism we choose for the purposes the Deputies have set out. I share the view of the Business Committee that all the time, attention and resources of those at the front line of this emergency need to be spent on keeping the public safe. That said, we have a caretaker Government. It is absolutely essential that those of us on the other benches not be left as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Mar 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 529. To ask the Minister for Health when planned surgery for scoliosis will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [2658/20]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too commend every Teachta Dála elected here, particularly the new Deputies and their families. I thank Deputies Doherty and Kerrane for proposing and seconding me for the position of Taoiseach. In line with the theme of change it is only appropriate to note that today for the first time a nominee from a party other than Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael has managed to garner the greatest...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps that makes us winners again. I see that we still live rent free in Deputy Micheál Martin's very narrow and bitter mind. I see that he proposes to continue the diatribe and vitriol that sustained him and served him very badly in the course of the election campaign.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all agreed that the motif and theme emerging from this election is change, but I hear a note from some Members who might seek to suggest that this is some kind of capricious nonsense on the part of the electorate, that perhaps people were not really sure what they meant by change, that it was some kind of fuzzy ill-defined feeling. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Everybody who has been elected here is a winner, but the fact is, to do the maths, the winners were Sinn Féin, our colleagues in the Green Party, the Social Democrats and every party who said to the people there is a different and a better way to do government. I know in voting for us people said we want to give you the chance, we have seen the shambles, the same old same old same, the...

Ainmniú Iarrthóirí agus Ceann Comhairle a Thoghadh - Selection of Candidate and Election of Ceann Comhairle (20 Feb 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an gCeann Comhairle ar a cheapachán mar chathaoirleach ar an Tríú Dáil is Tríocha. Is onóir mhór duit agus do theaghlach é. Táim cinnte go ndéanfaidh tú do dhícheall do chuid gnó iomlán a dhéanamh go cruinn. Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Sinn Féin déanaim comhghairdeas...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that discusses environment matters; and when it will next meet. [50204/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that discusses agricultural matters; and when it will next meet. [50203/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Ó Snodaigh's tie is always a crowd-pleaser.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Women's Aid reported last month that its helpline had received 898 disclosures of where a man had told a woman he would kill her, the children, a family member or himself. Since the Women's Aid report was published, a sixth woman has died violently in Ireland this year. Jasmine, Elzbieta, Cathy, Skaidrite, Valerie and now Nadine have been killed. They have left 14 children without mothers....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Neither I nor previous contributors have said anything that is not factual. The facts of the matter are that very many childcare providers believe they will not be able to meet additional insurance costs and therefore may not be in a position to open their doors in January. They are the only facts we need to face. The last thing I want to do is cause panic or anxiety to any parent or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am talking about costs.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We all agree that manners need to be put on the insurance industry in this country. Insurance companies have been exposed for charging customers extortionate premiums, despite the fact that claims have fallen significantly and those same companies' profits continue to soar. There was general outrage when motorists discovered the extent to which they were being ripped off. There is an...