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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We do not want to do that at all. What I would like the Taoiseach to do is-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to answer the question I put to him. There are currently 800 vacant posts in primary schools. That is set to hit 1,200. That is a problem, I think we can agree. The teaching union is telling us directly that this is related to housing and the fact that teachers cannot afford to rent or buy a home close to where they work. I have asked the Taoiseach what he will do about that. His...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is "unprecedented", "dire", "an exodus". These are some of the words used to describe the chronic teacher shortage, with new research showing 800 vacant primary teaching posts across the State. The situation is set to worsen, with vacancies expected to hit 1,200 in the near future. A staggering 66% of these vacancies are in the greater Dublin area and the impact is being felt...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has any plans to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease for frontline health care workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47434/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Carthy. This European Council meeting is of grave importance. It is a moment of reckoning for European leaders as the people of Gaza struggle to survive Israel's relentless bombardment. Thousands of Palestinians have been slaughtered and injured, more than a million have been displaced, with their homes, hospitals, schools and vital infrastructure have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Political Community meeting in Granada, Spain. [46425/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The housing crisis continues, leaving workers, families and young people unable to put an affordable roof over their heads. Budget 2024 does nothing to change that reality. Housing affordability has been shredded on the Government's watch. The Simon Community Locked Out report published today shows that even with assistance payments, renting is completely unaffordable, while the latest CSO...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking about health.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: So the Minister asked for sufficient funding and got nothing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am talking about genuine doctors. We are not talking about managers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are talking about front-line workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why did the Taoiseach's Government take the decision to drastically underfund the health service in budget 2024? It is a health service that is already under enormous pressure, with record treatment waiting lists, a year-round trolley emergency and an ever-worsening recruitment and retention crisis. Against that backdrop, the Government chose, with its eyes wide open, to blow a massive...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not alone is there a recruitment embargo but industrial action is under way on foot of that. Those who actually run the health service have confirmed for everybody that there is a recruitment embargo and that is going to have real effects in terms of junior doctors, home help workers and so on. There are also 200,000 people on diagnostics waiting lists, 200,000 people on community waiting...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I acknowledge the Irish women's darts team and officials who are in the Public Gallery. They are the current world champions. Comhgairdeas agus fáilte. Sixteen years ago, Fine Gael said it would end the scandal of people waiting on hospital trolleys. Yesterday in University Hospital Limerick, there were 130 patients on trolleys. That is the highest number ever recorded at any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----may be small but we can have a very, very big influence on this question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's party has been in government for 12 years. He is in his second stint as Taoiseach. Obviously, one can only assume that he has used that time, as he has claimed, to build relationships. He might inform us about who our allies are on this question, what level of persuasion the Taoiseach has exercised and what work he has done outside the European Council to talk to European...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: More than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed. More than 2,000 Palestinian children are dead. More than 1,000 Palestinian women are dead. More than 15,000 Palestinians have been injured. Almost 2 million Palestinians have been displaced. This is the depressing toll of human suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza over the past two weeks. The people of Ireland were rightly outraged...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a brutally violent offensive military campaign. Hundreds of schools in Gaza have been destroyed. Its health infrastructure has been obliterated. The hospitals that remain functioning are quickly running out of fuel to keep generators going. As food runs out, the people of Gaza face starvation. As clean water runs out, they face the prospect of cholera. As they run out of the...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The people of the world are witness to a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Israel has unleashed the weight of its military might upon a beleaguered refugee population. It rains its arsenal of missiles down upon 2 million impoverished people hemmed into an area half the size of County Louth. This indiscriminate mass slaughter of innocent men, women and children is carried out in full sight...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I remind our Government that the recitation of all our interventions and charitable acts for the Palestinian people does not relieve it of its primary responsibility to hold Israel accountable to the world for its acts of impunity and violation of international law. We in Ireland know all too well the pain and tragedy of colonisation, occupation and dispossession. We have known conflict and...