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Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----or indeed for anyone else, that their voices are equal, that their views are equal, that their hopes for the future are equal and that there are no second-class mandates and certainly no second-class voters.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no reason to believe that, having caused a housing crisis and made it worse, having sustained a crisis in health, having failed to deliver for working people, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, its junior partner, are in any position to straighten matters out. The parties that created these problems are not going to solve them. It is as simple as that. I was alarmed this morning to...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Be aware. Be very aware that you will be judged-----

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----on the big promises you made to get back into power at all costs. History tells us that campaigns are where Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael make their promises and in government is where they break them. It is a tale as old as time itself. We already have sight of what is in store should Micheál Martin and Simon Harris get this deal of theirs over the line with the manful help...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ar dtús gabhaim míle buíochas leis na céadta míle duine a chaith vóta san olltoghchán ar son Shinn Féin, ar son athraithe agus ar son Rialtais nua. Déanaim comhghairdeas ó chroí le gach duine sa Teach inniu a toghadh mar Theachta Dála sa Cheathrú Dáil is Tríocha. Is onóir mhór é a bheith tofa ag...

Ainmniú Iarrthóirí agus Ceann Comhairle a Thoghadh - Selection of Candidate and Election of Ceann Comhairle (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nach bhfuil seans ag na ceannairí eile cúpla focal a rá faoin gCeann Comhairle?

Ainmniú Iarrthóirí agus Ceann Comhairle a Thoghadh - Selection of Candidate and Election of Ceann Comhairle (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We should have been informed of that.

Ainmniú Iarrthóirí agus Ceann Comhairle a Thoghadh - Selection of Candidate and Election of Ceann Comhairle (18 Dec 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that but we should have been informed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know whether the Taoiseach is familiar with Dublin city's flat complexes. If he has been in and out of them, he will know that they are fairly unique and are incredible communities. He will also have observed how badly let down they have been by successive Governments. Some of the living conditions for citizens in our inner cities are reminiscent of another era, such is the level...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----saga. Do not mind me, Minister. This issue is about the people who live in these flats, not his sensitivities, with all due respect to him.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: In O'Devaney Gardens, only 56 units have been delivered 20 years on. There has been a six-year wait for progress for the flats at Constitutional Hill. I could go on and on. Why are these communities and families left to wait and live in conditions that no one here lives in and or would be prepared or tolerate living in?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have not met one taxpayer out on the beat who thinks that was a smart use of money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: As a matter of fact, people are outraged by that and all the more outraged when they discover a mere €3 million from all the Government's billions has been provided for youth mental health services at a time when we hear a lot from young people, their families and their educators about how desperately people need these services and the fact they wait and wait.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked the Taoiseach to confirm for the Dáil, and he might do so, that €9 million is actually the initial outlay on these phone pouches and the scheme will in fact cost the taxpayer €2 million annually. Will he confirm that as a matter of fact?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have the documentation to hand.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Take it up with the DUP, Taoiseach, and answer my question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: And it is €2 million per annum. Is that right, Taoiseach?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his forbearance and patience, as ever. The Government is a serial waster of the public’s money. Its waste leaves people shaking their heads in disbelief. The lack of accountability angers people. There has been no accountability for the €336,000 bicycle shelter, nor for the €1.4 million security hut or the doubling of costs for modular...