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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, tell the Taoiseach that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Rather than the Micheál methodology.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a strange methodology.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the Taoiseach doing to end the rip-off?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá a fhios ag gach duine nach bhfuil rud ar bith sa bhuiséad do dhaoine, teaghlaigh ná oibrithe atá ag fulaingt. Is í sin an fhírinne. I have asked a question about price gouging and ending the rip-off by energy companies. As usual, the Taoiseach has come up with nothing. His budget has made a bad situation worse for working people. I know he is not a great...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: A warm welcome to the visitors from Claregalway and the people from the United States. The ambassador is also most welcome. Cuirim fáilte rompu go léir. More than a million households will be hit with big hikes in their electricity bills this month. This morning we have further proof of what we have been saying for a long time, that energy companies are brazenly ripping off...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 385. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has completed a ‘definitive project brief’ for 14-17 Moore Street, similar to the brief completed on the GPO. [55336/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for the start and completion dates for all phases of works conducted thus far at 14-17 Moore Street since the purchase of each building by the State. [55337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 387. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the meaningful progress expected in 2026 at 14-17 Moore Street; the estimated timeframe for completing the application for Ministerial consent; and the length of time the process usually takes. [55338/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 388. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the interim protective measures that have been put in place to mitigate against issues such as dry rot and timber decay at 14-17 Moore Street; and if it is intended to move some materials to a location off-site for treatment. [55339/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Oct 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 389. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the new building with ancillary visitor facilities is planned for construction at 8/9 Moore Street or 8/9 Moore Lane; and to provide an update on this project. [55340/25]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Its refusal and inability to do what needs to be done has locked a generation out of affordable housing to rent or buy, left people stuck in the box rooms of their parents' homes into their 30s and 40s, and sent young people packing to Canada and Australia because they have lost hope of ever owning a home of their own. These are the consequences of the Government’s failure.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Twelve years ago, Fine Gael rolled out the red carpet for the vulture funds with sweetheart tax arrangements, and nothing has changed. Today, its policy remains wedded to the interests of wealthy property funds, developers and big landlords over the housing needs of ordinary people. The Taoiseach today described this strategy as Government policy encouraging private investment to crowd in....

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not fair, and once again the Government sells carers short. Is buiséad é seo atá scríofa ag Fine Gael. Tá Fianna Fáil ar nós iománaithe ar an gclaí ag breathnú air. I measc pacáistí móra cánach, tréigeann an buiséad seo oibrithe agus teaghlaigh chun aire a thabhairt dóibh siúd atá ar bharr...

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...