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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Good Friday Agreement is not only eloquent but it is also crystal clear on the right of any citizen to be recognised as Irish, as British or as both. As the Taoiseach has acknowledged, Emma is an Irish citizen. She carries an Irish passport, and despite the clarity around her identity and citizenship, Emma has been blackguarded and pursued through the courts by a very hostile and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: And get no result.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the High Court in Belfast ruled that people born in the North of Ireland are British citizens even where they identify as and are Irish. The ruling was made in the case of Emma DeSouza. Emma has fought a long and admirable campaign with the British Home Office to be legally recognised as an Irish citizen only. Emma's case is well known and has become a symbol of the need to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when the Cabinet committee on security is scheduled to meet. [38482/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department [38484/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements regarding the candidature of Ireland for the UN Security Council. [39603/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent United Nations climate action summit. [39604/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk. [39605/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing of Budgets (15 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will publish the OECD report that undertook a policy scan of equality budgeting here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41962/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, decidedly of the right, have failed Irish society and citizens. Yes, the budget was developed in the shadow of Brexit. However, the policies and budgetary decisions of Fine Gael since 2011 and Fianna Fáil before it cast a darker and longer shadow over the lives of workers and families who will be looking at the budget and wondering what is in it for...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government simply refuses to listen. Suggestions that it knows will make a difference in the daily lives of so many people are slapped down. The Government knows but does not care. That is poor leadership, bad government and a very short-sighted perspective. It is clear that housing, health and income insecurity are now the main results of this Government's policies. It is also now...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, are on their knees. Communities and families are crying out for help. During 2017 and 2018, some 747 people in this land tragically died by suicide. People are dying and this Government has allocated a paltry €14 million in new money for mental health services in 2020. Shame on the Government. That is especially the case when...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Budget 2020 has come at a time when change is happening all around us. The withdrawal of Britain from the European Union presents many challenges for Ireland, social, political and economic. Budget 2020 also comes at a time when workers and families are looking for a break: a break from wages that do not go far enough, a break from high bills and a break from rip-off costs. People are...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: They see through the Taoiseach.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That is really bad-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Minister for Finance announced an increase in carbon tax as part of budget 2020. The Government pushed ahead with a tax increase that it knows will disproportionately hit the vulnerable and low paid. The Government knows this because it has been told. The ESRI and the Department of Finance have told the Taoiseach that poorer households, rural areas and lone parents will bear...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The history of carbon taxes in this jurisdiction is that they have not had the effect of reducing emissions. That is just a fact. It has been patchy but the trajectory is going in the wrong direction. The Government has had €400 million per annum to invest to support behavioural changes and it has failed abjectly. This is a case of the Government believing its own hype and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly. I want to place on record, lest there be any misunderstanding, that Boris Johnson's behaviour is not driven by ignorance. It is not that, as Deputy Martin suggests, he does not understand. Boris Johnson understands full well the consequences of his recklessness. It is not ignorance of Ireland; it is more belligerence towards Ireland, North and South, that is at play, and I want...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the number and type of Cabinet committee meetings held since June 2019. [37285/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: In 2015, we in Sinn Féin published a fully costed ten-year plan to increase the capacity of the health service to achieve equality of access and to ensure it is funded on a fair and sustainable basis. That was followed by the all-party Oireachtas committee's plan, Sláintecare, which similarly provided for the development of a single-tier universal public health service over ten...