Results 61-80 of 21,383 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The big man who will not answer a question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Driving up rents.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It might interest the Taoiseach to know that, far from having an ideological objection to rental accommodation, I was raised in rental accommodation. Imagine that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have no ideological objection. As a matter of fact, I am determined that renters, whether long-term renters, as is the case with my family, or shorter term renters, which is the more normal experience, are not fleeced and gouged in the way that is currently happening. I do not know how blunt or clear we have to be with the Taoiseach, but renters now pay thousands of euro more than just a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I appeal to the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----not to do that. Renters have had enough.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach must have some decency and some consideration for people who are struggling.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Blah, blah, blah.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who is in government?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are record rents.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It will increase rent.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It will increase rent. The Taoiseach knows that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach does not care about renters. We have got his answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have had more than a decade of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael presiding over a housing emergency and now the Government proposes to force ripped-off renters to carry the can for its failures. The Government's plan for the private rental sector is really Fianna Fáil's rent hike Bill. It can spoof all it wants; the only certainty from this move is rent will increase for every renter....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It did happen.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am very heartened to see that at least one Member got actual answers to his question. I am sure the fact the question was put by a member of a Government party is not lost on anybody. I have been in contact with Paul Guy, whose father, Audeon Guy, was referenced by the Taoiseach. As he knows, the family have gone public on the shocking abuse their father endured in Beneavin Manor...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, until-----