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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A (economy) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [38474/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I share the concerns raised by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett and add the issue of the corporate tax honeymoon period extended to the banks. I also add issues related to the taxation of intangible assets held by multinationals, a loophole which was partially closed by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, but which requires a full and final resolution. I noticed in the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It should at this juncture be clear even to Deputy Micheál Martin that at the heart of the crisis and the hiatus in the institutions in the North is the fact that the DUP has not embraced the Good Friday Agreement. We can only have a functioning system of power-sharing where we have parties that are open to power-sharing. We cannot indefinitely suspend the expectations of an entire...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the Chancellor of Austria, Mr. Sebastian Kurz, since July 2018. [37517/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning customers of a number of banks did not receive child benefit and other social welfare payments owing to a systems wide banking issue. I appreciate that it was not an error of the Government, but, of course, it has caused considerable concern and anxiety for many who rely on these payments. Will the Taoiseach confirm for the House that the systems error has been corrected and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that response. I echo his sentiments in respect of the achievements of the last 20 years. All of that should be acknowledged in spite of the fact the institutions are currently not operational. It needs to be acknowledged also that in order for power-sharing to work, in order for the institutions to be re-established, the spirit and the letter of the Good Friday...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In an interview published in this morning's edition of The Daily Telegraphthe leader of the DUP Arlene Foster had this to say:It has been deeply frustrating to hear people who voted remain and in Europe talk about Northern Ireland as though we can’t touch the Belfast Agreement. Things evolve, even in the EU context. There has been a lot of misinterpretation, holding it [the Good...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am delighted that the Taoiseach raised with the Palestinian President, Mr. Abbas, issues relating to women's rights and LGBT rights. No doubt in giving Mr. Abbas the benefit of his wisdom, the Taoiseach would also have reflected that he and his colleagues themselves are relatively recent converts to those causes. I am sure the Taoiseach can assist Mr. Abbas in walking that journey. I...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The inquiry is not history; it is under way.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee F, national security, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [30679/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is absolute rubbish.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the foreign visits he plans to undertake from September to December 2018. [29284/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America. [30678/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think it is absolutely necessary for the Taoiseach to move beyond articulating an aspiration of recognition of the state of Palestine to actually doing so. He has long-fingered this issue. He says that he will do it in the context of a two-state solution, at a time when that looks very remote; a time of great trouble in the Middle East and particularly in Gaza. It is the will of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will keep it in mind. Last night the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government survived a motion of no confidence as a result of the cowardice of Fianna Fáil. Despite that, the issue of demanding political accountability for housing and homelessness is not going away. We need a huge change of direction and policy that delivers secure, affordable housing for all our...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The convention considered all of those matters.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: As we speak nurses and midwives, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, are meeting to discuss pay and staffing shortages. The national executive of the Psychiatric Nurses Association is also meeting today to consider the recent report of the Public Service Pay Commission. For years nurses, midwives and their unions have highlighted the recruitment and retention crisis...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is not contesting the fact that there is one application for every four nursing and midwifery vacancies in the health service. That is a fact too. The fact is that we train what are said to be the best, brightest and most capable nursing and midwifery staff and then we lose them, specifically to London, Canada and Australia. When one makes a pay comparison one must benchmark...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are 10,000 people in emergency accommodation.