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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is ideologically driven.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [40784/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Minister for Justice and Equality has finally brought outstanding legal advice to Cabinet this morning that will enable his Department to progress redress payments to survivors of the Magdalen laundries. A year has passed since the Ombudsman published his report of an investigation into the administration of the Magdalen redress scheme. That investigation found a serious...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [40783/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The proposal for an EU digital sales tax was raised earlier by the leader of the Green Party and, in response, the Taoiseach gave a critique of the model that is proposed. Does he have a concern in respect of this tax in the context of overall Irish tax sovereignty? On the issue of jobs and job plans, it is very obvious that throughout this island, North and South, there are very severe...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I hope they are not too extremist.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: They do not need to. I am doing my job.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: We did the work last February.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [40782/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: It says everything about the Taoiseach that when his performance or competence in the discharge of his duties is questioned, he lashes out. In an exchange earlier today, he accused me of being too radical and - ouch - apparently I am a bully. The Taoiseach levelled these accusations at me for having the temerity to put it to him that he is not acquitting himself well at this point, when the...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the issue raised by Deputy Coppinger in respect of the structural issues affecting schools throughout the State. I understand the Minister for Education and Skills briefed Cabinet on this matter this morning. I ask for a brief update as to where the remedial works are at and if the schools that are closed will be able to re-open this week. I also ask what plan is in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I urge him, as Head of Government, not to lose his nerve or blink at this stage. How on earth, at such a sensitive time in a negotiation, can the Taoiseach commit himself to a review clause? Reviews, by definition-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----imply things that are time-bound and transitory. How has the Taoiseach committed himself to that when he now says on the floor of the Dáil that he has seen no wording and does not in fact know what it would amount to?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not creative; it is dangerous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's difficulty is that he has, in fact, resiled from his stated negotiating position. He has done it at a time that arguably could not be worse. We are at crunch time and truth time. We urged the Taoiseach and the Barnier negotiating team not to blink in their dealings with the Tories in London and to stay the course with the very reasonable bottom line protections that Ireland...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last December when the joint report of the EU and British Government negotiators was published, the Taoiseach hailed it as a panacea for all of Brexit's ills. He said at the time that it "achieved what we sought to achieve" in avoiding a hard border. He also said it was not only rock solid but "cast iron." He claimed that it was politically bulletproof. His language was such that very...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of his Department’s allocations of €65 million for information and communications technology and €17 million building programme as provided for in budget 2019. [44750/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the €65 million for the An Garda Síochána information and communications technology capital budget for 2019. [45561/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown the €10 million An Garda Síochána capital budget for 2019. [45562/18]