Results 781-800 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: By harnessing support for an all-island approach to economic, social, environmental and well-being challenges, NESC can be an important and practical mechanism to encourage everyone on the island to work together. Through ambitious collaboration, we can be more than the sum of our parts. Climate change and protecting biodiversity are urgent problems and we need to deal with them on an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all witnessing the absolute savagery and depravity of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, on civilians, women, children and men. Bear in mind that the majority of Gazans are a refugee population. They have been left in the most dire and desperate circumstances as the world watches on. Do not miss the fact that, in the West Bank also, settler violence has spiked. Israel acts with utter...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [52330/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The committee met on the 27th, the Taoiseach told us. That would have been three days after the publication of the homeless figures which made for very grim reading. Another record was set, with 13,179 people homeless, and almost 4,000 of those children. Can the Taoiseach tell us what consideration of homelessness and those figures was given at the meeting on 27 November and what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53575/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was announced yesterday that on New Year's Day, the Government will introduce a road toll increase, the second in six months. The Government started kite-flying about this during the summer. It is madness that the Government would go ahead with this increase. People rely on the roads to get to work, to bring kids to school and to attend medical appointments in different parts of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: So is that a "Yes" or a "No"?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: They were not hard left.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The realities are these. We have waiting lists for social housing that are unbearable. I have dealt with people who have spent years on social housing waiting lists. I assume the Taoiseach has also met these people and families. As he brags about social housing delivery, he should be very aware that tens of thousands of people who languish on lists know the real story. He talked about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can you answer the question?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised the need to introduce an emergency ban on rent increases for three years. Even though workers and families are being hammered by relentless rent hikes, the Taoiseach again dismissed that call. Over the 12 years that Fine Gael has been in Government, life has become increasingly hard for renters. In that time, rents have more than doubled. The latest Residential...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have not.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have not misled anybody.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----can I assist the Government who are clearly hard of hearing?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am not withdrawing it.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Those who live-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a fact.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not. I am stating the facts, on the record of the Dáil.