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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is incapable of keeping promises made and its budget is testimony to that.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to address just some of these broken promises. Broken promise number one is the cost of living. During the election, the Government was clear over and again that tackling soaring prices and the runaway cost of living was its biggest priority. As a man once said about empty promises, is that not what you tend to do during an election? That is certainly true of you lads. The...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: What of the renters of Ireland? Only a few months ago, the Government came forward with a Bill that will put renters on the hook for massive rent hikes, and now it shafts them again. There is no increase in the renters' tax credit, as Fianna Fáil promised, but Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil dug deep to increase the tax break for landlords to €1,000. Little wonder that most of...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The first 100 days of Government ran out on 3 May, which is over six months ago. That promised pathway must have run up a cul-de-sac somewhere because it is nowhere to be seen. This broken commitment means parents continuing to fork out a small fortune in childcare fees. That childcare promise was just another one of the Government's trademark soundbites. Is it not embarrassed by the way...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Be clear that students and parents will not be fooled by the Government's spin, because they will feel it in their pockets. Budget 2026 should have abolished student fees for good. The Government should be on a pathway to that. That is what it should have done, but it chose not to. We provided for a cut of €1,500 on the pathway to that. That was the right thing to do. Broken...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: This budget comes at a time when ordinary households are reeling from a cost-of-living crisis that is out of control. Workers and families are hit by rip-off prices in every direction. It is getting harder and harder to make ends meet and to keep up, and it shows no sign of letting up. It is rent, big electricity and gas bills, runaway food prices, the cost of petrol and diesel, crippling...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You can answer it now.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fees have gone up.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Take that up with the British Government.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Tánaiste is concerned about British policy, he should take it up with the British Government.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is very sensitive.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is Fianna Fáil speaking.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach told me only a few short weeks ago that, "We will do what we can on taxation to alleviate the pressure on people." No one took that to mean landlords and developers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We thought he meant working people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: We thought he meant people who generate all of these billions of euro in surpluses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach explain again to the working people of Ireland how he arrived at the decision-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to spend €9.4 billion and leave them worse off?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Explain that, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: A Cheann Comhairle, in fairness, he never answers anyway.