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Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have raised one.

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the record of the Dáil, I am actually raising two young children. While I regard that as something of a personal endeavour, it also puts me, like so many others, in a position to understand that all of the cant and empty rhetoric about balancing the books is not worth a fig to struggling families. To couples at work or individuals on their own who have to provide care for their...

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The forthcoming budget represents a genuine opportunity to deliver for those who are struggling to make ends meet. The Taoiseach says he represents those who get up early in the morning. I can tell him that nobody gets up earlier in the morning than those who are raising young children. While Fine Gael and their friends in Fianna Fáil engage in a sham fight over tax cuts, and hammer...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to mention the consolidated domestic violence legislation which I have raised consistently in the House. This Government and the previous one made repeated commitments to bring forward such legislation. Can the Tánaiste give us a specific date for when the heads of Bill for the criminal justice (Istanbul Convention) Bill will be ready for pre-legislative scrutiny?

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well then, do that.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is about one or the other.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's reply was most unconvincing. I do not think even she is convinced by the flawed and almost perverse argument she has presented. The people who go out to work and pay their taxes are also the ones who are casualties of the lack of investment in housing and health, child care and many other services. They are not two competing realities. They are one and the same and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Despite the sensitivities of my Fianna Fáil colleagues, I put it to the Tánaiste that it is utterly reckless and irresponsible to talk about tax cuts as a means of rewarding working people.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government drop that proposal and will it recognise and invest in the services on which we rely?

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: As ever. We are three weeks away from the announcement of budget 2018 which represents a real opportunity to deliver for citizens who are struggling to get by and build a life for their families but all of the signals from the Government and the Taoiseach are that they are going to pass up on this opportunity. Instead of focusing on the crises in the health service and the provision of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is probably not a bad suggestion depending on how long it will take. We do not want to be caught up in a prolonged exchange between our legal people and their legal people. Whatever about redacting on the basis of protecting an individual's identity, they have also redacted to take from our view the names of servers, providers and larger corporate entities. That is the bit that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is that all about?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, that is not involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to clarify the position.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The agreement was for the ownership of the property, not the enjoyment of it. That is a different thing.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How long is "shortly"?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is why we wrote the letter in the first instance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree that, in general, we are fobbed off with holding letters in any event. We need to do something about that, but the terrible thing regarding this situation is that it is a small number of people who were short-changed and left high and dry by an agency funded by the HSE and the State. Wherever the legal responsibility does or does not reside, I am of the view that the Minister, as a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is absolutely correct.