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Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Taoiseach has a view on that matter, he might share it with us.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, the rent pressure zone legislation is doing nothing for renters - that is the fact - who are facing rents of between €1,300 and €2,200 on new homes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear that we need new measures that will work. What we need immediately is a rent freeze. I am asking if the Taoiseach will finally accept that his plans have failed and act definitively to protect renters.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not protecting them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, in response to the publication of the latest quarterly report from daft.iesaid that rents are rising at a slow rate. Meanwhile in the real world, average rents are in excess of €1,300 across the State, an increase of 8% on the same time last year, and average rents stand in Dublin at over...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that. The best way to proceed is for the contract to be made public. If I am correct, I understand the Minister, Deputy Bruton, has undertaken to make that request of Granahan McCourt. This is the best way to go forward. I do not accept the Taoiseach's analysis that risk is being equally shared. Perhaps, more importantly, that is not the conclusion arrived at by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: On what basis does the Taoiseach assert this certainty?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá ceist agam faoi broadband arís. Caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil sé dochreidte go bhfuil Granahan McCourt ag íoc €220 milliún agus an cáiníocóir ag íoc €3 billiún. It is crucial that we deliver high-speed broadband to rural Ireland because people want, need and deserve it. That means actual delivery, not delivering an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 340. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a MRI scan in Cappagh hospital. [20716/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government promises to reform the HSE into a more efficient, transparent health service. Over the weekend the Taoiseach was forced to apologise to four pathologists in University Hospital Waterford whose very serious assertions regarding unacceptable conditions at the mortuary he had dismissed out of hand. The pathologists outlined that due to inadequate body storage and...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: How much?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is very coy but he does not display the same reticence in naming the figure for the taxpayer, with €3 billion rolling off his tongue. He does not have to convince anyone in this Chamber or beyond of the need for rural broadband; far from it. I remind him that officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform - and I understand their concerns were also held by...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: How much private money is involved?

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...