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Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In July, the Taoiseach said the talks in respect of the Northern Ireland institutions and the re-establishment of them would reconvene in the autumn. I would like him to set out if this is still his proposed timetable. What action does he propose to take in respect of the rights that are still outstanding in the North? I refer to marriage equality, Acht na Gaeilge and the struggle of so...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council. [30412/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Page 35 of the programme for Government contains a number of commitments in respect of public sector pay. Yesterday, the Minister for Finance made a much anticipated announcement in respect of pay restoration. As the Taoiseach knows, more than 60,000 public sector workers, including 16,000 teachers and nearly 10,000 nurses who entered service after 2011, currently earn less than colleagues...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: You poor pet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can only surmise that the Taoiseach is delusional. It is the only conclusion I can arrive at. He seems to believe that everything is okay and that he is on track despite the facts. It is not opinion or speculation but a fact that homelessness has risen and that house prices and rents are out of control and beyond the reach even of people at work. The Taoiseach seems to be entirely...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: By every measure, the Taoiseach's Government is failing to tackle the national scandal that is the housing emergency. Private rents and house prices continue to spiral out of control. Social housing output remains glacial with fewer real council houses to be delivered this year than last year. Not a single affordable home to rent or buy has been delivered by Government over the past three...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: They will snipe from the ditches about a lack of housing but what will they do tonight when faced with an opportunity to vote? The answer to that is that they will do absolutely nothing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need bold, meaningful action and we need real leadership. We need a new plan and we need a new Minister so is it not time that the Taoiseach dismissed the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy? He is quite happy to hang the prospect of dismissal over the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, for refusing to state her confidence in the Minister but...

National Monuments (The Moore Street Battlefield) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim buíoch as an deis seo labhairt ar an mBille tábhachtach seo. Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Teachta Tóibín as ucht é a chur faoi bhráid na Dála, agus iarraim ar gach aon Teachta tacaíocht a thabhairt don Bhille atá ós ár gcomhair. The aim of the Bill before the Dáil is to designate certain parts of Moore Street and its...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (20 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Ms Karen Bradley, recently. [37665/18]

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim buíoch as an deis labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo um thráthnóna. I welcome the publication of the Scally report. We would all like to know who leaked it. The Minister might shed some light on that matter.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Screening saves lives. In the course of this debacle, our debate and everything that flows from them, let us be clear - any woman listening who is concerned should have a smear test. It may well save her life; it has saved others. It is welcome that the Minister has accepted all of the recommendations made. He shares a view about having them implemented. We look forward to working...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and may, in and of itself, beg for further investigation and a commission. The default position of the State apparatus when it became clear that problems had arisen in a screening system that was, of course, not 100% effective - there are very few 100% figures in life - was to deny, obfuscate and leave women in the dark. I commend Vicky Phelan, Emma Mhic Mhathúna, Ruth Morrissey,...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim buíoch as an deis labhairt ar an rún tábhachtach seo. Ba mhaith liom mo chuid buíochas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Brian Stanley as ucht an rún a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. Iarraim tacaíocht ó gach aon Teachta don rún atá os ár gcomhair. The programme for Government contains a number of commitments on the postal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the Taoiseach's first response he said that he and Theresa May affirmed their determination to see the institutions in the North back up and running. I put it to him directly that there is in fact no determination from the British Government to achieve that outcome. In fact, it has acted to frustrate that very course of action. We achieved an agreement or accommodation last February and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put it to the Taoiseach that it is actually very dangerous for him to set out that rhetoric on the floor of the Dáil, but that it is even more dangerous if he actually believes and is gripped by the delusion that the Tories have done anything positive or assertive to ensure a pathway back. They have not. They have frustrated progress.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [30677/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I return to the issues of the gender pay gap and gender equality more generally. I understand these matters formed part of the Taoiseach's discussions in June with Ms Christine Lagarde. The gender pay gap is a frontline equality issue, not a sideline, petty concern. It is a matter of deep concern that, notwithstanding legislation on equal pay for work of equal value dating back to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [29286/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that media reports in Ireland and across the water in Britain yesterday about the implementation of the backstop agreed between the British Government and the EU in December amounted to speculation. Nonetheless, at this stage, they are very worrying. It is clear there is still a wide difference of opinion between the various actors, that is to say, the British Government and the...