Results 781-800 of 21,647 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Another day and another revelation of Government waste of public money. Over the weekend, it emerged that in 2017 the National Gallery of Ireland purchased a scanner at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly €125,000. The scanner has never been used because a suitable room could not be found to accommodate it. This equipment, which cost the people €125,000, has sat idle for eight...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 169. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [7558/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 171. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [7557/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of staffing levels at the children’s hospital. A serious letter has been written by all 12 surgeons at the department of paediatric surgery and urology at Children’s Health Ireland. I believe it has gone to the Minister for Health. In this letter, the surgeons outline bizarrely that the plans for opening the new children’s hospital will see it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has missed social and affordable housing targets every single year on the Taoiseach's watch and the typical home, as I told him, is €200,000 more expensive than it was over a decade ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach claims progress but the residential property price index demonstrates-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----prices are up by 8.7% in the last 12 months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are failing, Taoiseach. Why do you not just stand up and accept that fact?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who is in government?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: How long is the Taoiseach in government?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: "Housing delivery is the number one priority for this Government." That is the opening line of the statement issued by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste following the first meeting of the Cabinet committee on housing. From this meeting, they had promised a slate of new and dynamic ideas, they said, to tackle the housing crisis, but that has not materialised. In fact, they have brought...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can only surmise that the Taoiseach wishes to deflect and comment on Sinn Féin's policies because he knows he has been caught out. He has been found out. He spoofed during the election campaign. He presented a work of fiction. It was fact flexibility from Fianna Fáil. What a novel thing - not. Now he is in the hot seat again and there is an expectation of delivery and he is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: If take Moore Street as an emblem and an example of the interest of the State and successive governments in the regeneration of Dublin's north inner city, I can tell the House that it tells a very depressing tale. It tells a tale not just of indifference to those families and communities in the here and now, but also of utter and gross disrespect for the history and the historic nature of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Dublin city task force recommendations through his Department. [6073/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was very evasive on the issue of tax reliefs for private developers when he was asked repeatedly here today. Can he be clearer? Can he give the clarity that was given by the Minister, James Browne, that, in fact, those reliefs are being considered? Will the Taoiseach also clarify for me the €450 million that arose from a memo that went to the Cabinet committee on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----on tax reliefs and on those 3,000 homes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: So, tax reliefs. Okay.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: But they are captured within existing targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nothing is good-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.