Results 41-60 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Under Standing Order 35(3), I propose that time be urgently scheduled for statements today on the Department of justice's refusal of visas for 33 children and their chaperones who are due to travel to Ireland from Palestine to play hurling. The children have practised and trained for a year.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is a modest respite for children-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----living in a live genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the children from Palestine?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is a disgrace. It is very hard to listen to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not child welfare to leave dying kids in Gaza to bleed out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government needs to sanction Israel.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The deficit in our infrastructure is on the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has presided over that. The Taoiseach is right that investment needs to be made. The mistakes that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have made during the past number of Administrations have to be corrected. The Taoiseach is right about that. However, he is entirely missing where the lives of families and people are at.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is right to say that the rate of inflation has fallen, and thank God for that. However, he is entirely missing the fact that prices have not followed suit. Anybody who goes into a supermarket or shop or opens a bill can tell the Taoiseach that we are in place where households are still struggling. On the Government's record, in the past five months the price of home heating oil has...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is on the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who is disputing that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Meanwhile, Johnny and Mary cannot pay their bills.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have had six months of this do-nothing Government. Now, the Dáil is about to rise. As it rises, the Government will leave people with stress and uncertainty. People will face big rent hikes next year, thanks to the Government. Students and their families face a big hike in college fees, thanks to the Government. Also thanks to the Government, tens of thousands of families will be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Before I begin, I wish to congratulate our undisputed world champion, Katie Taylor, on an incredible victory in Madison Square Garden on Saturday morning.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Katie, as we know, has fought all over the world. She has walked many times into the lion's den. I know lots of people are anticipating the mother and father of all homecomings and a fight, maybe, in Croke Park.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has comprehensively ruled out providing a cost-of-living package in October's budget. The media today is full of reports that he is set to double down on the removal of support payments for struggling households. At a time when living costs are through the roof and people have been hit by skyrocketing prices from every direction, the Government proposes to abandon households...
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The most recent meeting of the European Council placed a heavy focus on the ramping-up of EU defence readiness. Of course, under the Commission Presidency of Ursula von der Leyen, the term "defence readiness" is simply code for the acceleration of a militarisation agenda, an agenda that pushes Europe into a new arms race, an agenda that will see the European Union spend an unprecedented...
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed, the Tánaiste's plan to align Ireland with the von der Leyen Commission's new EU militarisation instrument, security action for Europe, shows exactly why our neutrality must be defended to the hilt. We are talking about a proposal that would raid the coffers of EU social funds for €150 billion and redirect that money to military purposes.