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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: She tells of how these had traumatic affects on people's lives. She describes a culture of fear. Are there more Majellas out there? What will the Taoiseach do establish the full facts? Majella said yesterday that she spoke with Deputy Michael Noonan who was Minister for Justice in 1983, but she spoke to him ten years ago and at that point he said to her that this was an internal Garda matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The mind boggles as to how this could ever have been an internal Garda matter. I understand that Deputy Michael Noonan has not responded to this matter. Should he now make a statement and has the Taoiseach spoken with him on the issue?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Taoiseach that the next steps must in the first instance be dictated by Majella but I also think that the State has an obligation, retrospectively, to ensure, for example, that she is awarded her full pension. There is an obligation on the State not to speculate that there may well be other Majellas but to establish the full facts of the matter. It seems anecdotally that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is right that those of us who grew up in the 1980s recognise this atmosphere and ideology as set out through Majella's story. It is important in the here and now that we give absolute assurances, and that it is made absolutely clear, that we in fact live in a different Ireland. On that basis, the former Minister for Justice, Deputy Michael Noonan, should make a statement and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will try. I want to raise the case of Majella Moynihan. I am sure all of us, listening as Majella told her devastating story, have been moved and deeply saddened by her experiences. For those of us who were children in the 1980s, I think this transported us back to that Ireland - that awful, oppressive, misogynistic Ireland. Majella told her story. She told of her background as a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 85. To ask the Taoiseach the terms of reference for the citizens' assembly on gender equality. [25416/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Carer's Allowance Payments (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that guards in the Irish Prison Service whose families are in receipt of a carer's allowance have recently had their payments suspended following an instruction by inspectors from his Department that all carer's allowance payments be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25088/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (12 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, EU and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [24205/19]

Northern Ireland: Statements (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the opportunity to speak on these statements on the North in the Dáil. Far from suggesting anybody should butt out, be quiet or be reticent in our discussion on the North, on the contrary, it is incredibly important that the Oireachtas has ongoing engagement on progress, dilemmas and politics in the North. I only wish debates on matters in the North were more regular. I have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 958. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the final report of the independent review of the role and remuneration of elected members to local authorities will be published. [23318/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Seanad reform implementation group. [24204/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: While the Taoiseach has "noted" the report and said that it will be reflected on and discussed, he seems to have no appetite to act. I know from speaking to people that although the Seanad for all of its importance may not be the stuff of excited conversation on a daily basis in the real world-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----nonetheless there is a general sense that Seanad reform is a bit like rural broadband, namely, something that is spoken of at length but which never happens. I question the political will of this Government to deliver reform. The Taoiseach has expressed strong views on proposals for reform and that is all very well and good but given reform of the Upper House has been a matter of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with President Macron of France. [23294/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if will report on the recent informal meeting of the European Council. [23296/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Concerns around the budgetary position post Brexit will have been raised even more loudly by those who saw the statement in the weekend's edition of The Sunday Timesby Boris Johnson, potentially the British Prime Minister, that he would withhold the £39 billion in outstanding British contributions to the EU budget for 2019 and 2020 unless the EU agreed what he called more favourable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I suggest that the Taoiseach prioritise a visit to Edinburgh and that he very speedily ramp up the conversation with the Scottish Government and the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in particular. The stance adopted by the Scottish Government on fishing and fishing rights around Rockall is, frankly, bewildering. Scotland wishes to remain within the European Union, and that position has been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Report and Final Stages of the National Minimum Wage (Protection of employee Tips) Bill 2017, introduced by Sinn Féin, are due to be held in the Seanad tomorrow afternoon. This is important legislation which would make it illegal for an employer to withhold or deduct employees' tips and would require businesses to display their tipping policy so customers know how tips are distributed....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: A cut of this nature runs against the grain of Sláintecare and the stated intention to keep people in the community. It runs against the ambition of dealing with delayed discharges and overcrowding in our hospitals. It makes eminent sense for the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, to go back to HSE management and tell them that the money has to be found and that 6,000 people or more...