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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not yet.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [3891/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken with the leader of the DUP, Ms Arlene Foster, recently. [2542/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Like previous speakers - perhaps more so, given that Sinn Féin is a national organisation and we represent a substantial portion of the electorate north of the Border - I am anxious that the institutions of government be re-established. I am also a realist. We have a mandate from the North of Ireland and we know there is no appetite among Northern nationalists or progressives to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is not being fair to any of them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government states that the Taoiseach will end the need for rough sleeping by providing a high level of funding for the homeless services that support emergency beds and accommodation options. Yesterday, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government stated that in light of the cold snap we are experiencing, there will be places in emergency accommodation for all...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is my figure wrong?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are out at Heuston Station in tents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The reason nurses and midwives are on picket lines today is the Taoiseach's failures. I refer to his inaction and absolute failure not just in regard to the pay issue but the recruitment and retention crisis associated with it. I stopped to stand on picket lines with nurses and midwives this morning on my way to work. I was at Temple Street, the Rotunda and the Mater hospitals. Nobody to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I invite the Taoiseach, therefore, to take the next logical step, and commit to directly and personally intervene and engage. I ask that of him today as Head of Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Are the pictures of our young nurses in Melbourne and Sydney and all around the globe asking the Taoiseach to give them a reason to come home fake news? If he will pardon the pun, are they doctored images? I do not believe that they are. People know that certain nursing staff go abroad for a year but then they come back but the reality now is that we are losing so many of our best and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I speak on behalf of the nurses and midwives I spoke to this morning who asked me to tell the Taoiseach to engage. Deputy Varadkar is their Taoiseach and Head of Government. They are asking him to engage. If he is interested in sorting this dispute, that is what he will do, and he will do it speedily.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We know what they are. I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The nurses are on strike.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: But there is a strike.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask about cost rental and affordable housing. No affordable housing scheme has been in place since Fine Gael and, let it be remembered, the Labour Party in government scrapped it in 2011. Now we are in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis, of which Deputy Boyd Barrett has given examples. Dublin City Council, for its part, has led from the front. It has ambitious plans to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is an important issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [2490/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that when there is a live negotiation any commitments made to mitigation or legislative measures have to be weighed against the dynamic and the positioning of the Irish State in that negotiation. Having said that, time is running short now. I would certainly welcome it if we could see the legislation before 22 February. It is imperative that we have ongoing briefings not just...