Results 801-820 of 21,096 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those who live and work here, who walk these streets, who have grown up in Dublin and who love this city, know the score - the broken lives, broken spirits, broken health and bodies of the walking wounded. The Government refers to them as vulnerable. I call them the brutalised, the forgotten, failed by government after government, by a system and a State that grinds them up and allows them...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The streets of Dublin's north inner city have not been safe for a long time. The area is scourged by open drug dealing, drug-taking, on-street nuisance drinking, and constant and threatening antisocial behaviour. It is in this abnormal atmosphere that people go about their daily lives. People make their journeys to work and parents do the school drop-offs with the ever-present hum of...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Many parents tell me they feel forgotten, vulnerable and afraid. They are angry. Incredible work was done to get the children back to school. I acknowledge múinteoir Pól Hansard and his staff. It has to be asked, in the immediate aftermath of this attack, where was the emergency response from the Government? Only days after the stabbing of three of their classmates, and as...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is doing that.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is just not accurate.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is simply not the case.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, when inaccuracies are stated.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: You opposed statutory timelines for years. You voted against them.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier, the Taoiseach referred to the prospect of energy independence for Ireland as the moonshot of the 21st century. I raise with him the fact that yesterday we learnt that 95% of industry experts believe that, in fact, we will sail right past our 2030 target of 80% of our energy being from renewable sources. I raise with him concerns about the recent RESS 3 auction, which cleared the...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [52583/23]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is defeatist.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Having obliterated northern Gaza, massacring thousands of Palestinians, including children, Israel now intensifies its assault on southern Gaza. Palestinians are being pushed into an area one third the size of the Gaza Strip. People ordered to evacuate now have literally no place to go. They have no food, no water and no safety. It is a humanitarian disaster. The Taoiseach used the words...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true. Mathematical wizardry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Maths is not the Taoiseach's thing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Homeownership has collapsed on the Taoiseach's watch. That is not just my opinion or view. I do not say that from a position of bias. That is the fact of the matter. We have runaway rent, record levels of homelessness, and rents that are crippling people. That is the fact. The figures that I have quoted to the Taoiseach are from the Residential Tenancies Board. It also reports that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is the population.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have lost count of the number of times I have asked the Taoiseach to ban rent increases; each time he has said "No". Despite rents soaring to unaffordable levels, the Taoiseach will not budge. Now, because of his refusal to act, runaway rents have hit an all-time high. The recent report of the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, shows massive rent hikes over the last 12 months. New rents...
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I make my remarks as a proud Dubliner and one of the TDs who represent Dublin Central. In the aftermath of these awful events, this vicious knife attack on young children and on a childcare worker, I was actually on the scene. I do not recall seeing any of the Members opposite out and on the ground to fully appreciate the devastation that was felt at the unfolding events, as well as the...
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister for Justice let us down.
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda Commissioner let us down.