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Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 2:To insert the following after “an integral part of the Draft Agreement”: “— further resolves that the rights of citizens in the North are protected and vindicated as outlined in the Joint report from the negotiators of the European Union and the United Kingdom Government on progress during phase 1 of negotiations under Article 50 TEU on...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody asked Sinn Féin.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should not talk about hard borders then. Then talk of Border polls would not undermine that work.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: What are the Taoiseach's plans for the re-establishment of the Assembly and the Executive in the North? Prior to the summer recess he indicated that there would be an initiative in the autumn. We are now decisively moving into the winter and there is no word of any sustainable initiative. Nobody should be surprised at the DUP's rejection of the Barnier deal. I urge Members to remember...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach must clarify two matters for us. First, he must clarify whether the maximum facilitation proposal that was rejected by the European Union for sound reasons is being advanced again? Second, will he clarify for us whether any other similar proposition is being advanced that would hollow out or offer something less than that being afforded in the current backstop? I agree with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Cabinet yesterday gave the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, the go-ahead to bring forward a Bill to provide for a referendum that, if passed, would ensure the continued public ownership of water services. The Taoiseach spoke earlier about cross-party consensus, which he seems to support at this juncture. I remind the Government that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This week, balloting for industrial action began among more than 40,000 nurses and midwives. This is a mark and a measure of the desperation and frustration of nurses and midwives. The Minister for Finance, by way of response to this ballot, is hard-balling nursing and midwifery staff by claiming that their pay demands would compromise budgetary policy. He made this claim just two days...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, there are 425 people on hospital trolleys, including 14 children. There are 63 people on trolleys in Limerick, for example, 34 in Cork University Hospital and 34 in Tallaght Hospital. I could go on and recite the litany right across the State. In my opening remarks I said that there is only one application for every four nursing and midwifery vacancies in the system. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not on the issue of pay-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a chair count.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of special advisers in his Department; and the areas of policy to which they are assigned. [45088/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if A Programme for Partnership Government progress report will be published in December 2018. [42203/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The obvious question to ask is whether or not this current Dáil will still be here come May 2019. Whereas the toing and froing - it seems to me like a sham battle between Fine Gael and its partners in government, Fianna Fáil - might be depicted as a matter for themselves, it has implications for the entirety of the Dáil and, more importantly, for policy delivery and for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent engagements with the National Economic and Social Council. [42202/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of those key long-term challenges that requires long-term planning is climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy. I know one of the main areas of the work of NESC is in this arena. Last week the European Parliament approved four of the eight proposals comprising its clean energy package for 2020 to 2030. The directives in question originally had binding renewable energy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister did not answer the question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a specific issue which concerns girls younger than 12 years.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are asking for evidence which people cannot provide owing to the passage of time.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week or perhaps the week before, in response to questions on promised legislation and the programme for Government, the Taoiseach indicated that the Government would deal in a whole and compassionate way with survivors of the Magdalen laundries. Over the course of the weekend, I read that under the scheme women who worked in the laundries when they were girls under the age of 12 will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.