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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 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. [17609/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody believes Mr. Davis's assertion because it is not true. It is the stuff of "Alice in Wonderland" and I really wish the British would desist from positing these non-starters. It is clearly part of their strategy to play for time in the hope that either Europe or the Government in Dublin will blink and they will get away with pushing the Irish question indefinitely down the pipe. That...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Increasingly, parents across the State, including the Taoiseach's constituency of Dublin West, contact me on the lack of places for children with autism spectrum disorder, ASD, in ASD units or mainstream classrooms. That experience is common among members of the Sinn Féin group. We have lost count of the number of parents who have contacted our representatives in desperation because...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where are the children supposed to go?

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are being offered home tuition.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join the Taoiseach in commending the women who have come through the awful ordeal that was visited on them as very small girls. I commend them on their bravery. I accept that the protection of our children is now a matter which looms large in public policy in a way that it did not ten or 15 years ago. However, there is no room for complacency. I recall very accurately that as we dealt...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is trouble in paradise; the Government parties have fallen out.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has started in more ways than one. Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of leniency in the sentences handed down for sexual crimes against women and children. In response, the Taoiseach gave his support for our call for the introduction of sentencing guidelines. I urge him and the Minister for Justice and Equality to support Sinn Féin's amendments to the Judicial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the publication of this policy statement. I believe climate change mitigation, the promotion of rural employment and driving economic development are all crucial policy objectives and outcomes. However, there is one particular prerequisite to building the bioeconomy which the policy skates over, although, to be fair, it does mention it, namely, enhancing the supply of domestic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national policy statement on the bioeconomy published recently by his Department. [16170/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if the appointment of independent members to the National Economic and Social Council has been finalised. [16169/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Taoiseach as an cheist seo a fhreagairt. The closing date for the receipt of applications for these four vacancies was 21 February. The Taoiseach says the process has been completed and that he has a list of proposed appointees. When does the Taoiseach propose to announce who the individuals are? I imagine there were any number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recently published review of the operation of the strategic communications unit in his Department. [15860/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach as ucht a chuid freagraí. First, I welcome the publication of the report on 27 March by the Ard-Rúnaí of your Department, Mr. Martin Frasier. I think it is insightful and it is useful in examining the mistakes made in the establishment of the strategic communications unit, SCU. I welcome its principal recommendation, for the SCU to be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This afternoon some of the so-called hooded men and their legal representatives are in the Public Gallery. They have just held a briefing session for Deputies and Seanadóirí in the audiovisual room. As the Taoiseach will know, last month the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, rejected a request by the Government to find that the men had suffered torture at the hands of the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Such an appeal must be entered before 20 June. I know the men will meet the Tánaiste this afternoon. In the interest of standing up for human rights and dignity, the Taoiseach should confirm to the House that the Government will, in fact, appeal the ruling.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach accepting our amendments then?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In no way am I seeking to second-guess anybody. I have stated clearly the necessity of the separation of powers and the autonomy of the Bench. Neither do I believe, however, that we should second-guess the testimony of people who have come through the judicial system and the consistent message that they feel let down and that they have been failed. One of the victims in the case I set out...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are serious issues with the sentences handed down for sexual crimes perpetrated against women, children and men in the State. This evening, RTÉ's "Prime Time" will air a programme which underscores this truth. The programme centres on the rape of three young girls at a foster home in County Galway between 2003 and 2007. The girls were all under the age of ten when they were...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 92. To ask the Taoiseach the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [17913/18]