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- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is an important point.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: They live in Ireland.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Rent certainty.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, what about rent certainty?
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, is due to publish his rent strategy paper shortly. As the Tánaiste knows, the Residential Tenancies Board published its latest index this morning, which reveals that the cost of renting a home is continuing to climb. The board's director has described the rental market as still volatile, which is probably gentle language. Those working with the homeless...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a judicial circumstance.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is running away from this issue. The letter I quoted from earlier is dated 30 September 2014. It is very clear that all the rhetoric, lip service and tea and sympathy delivered in Liverpool, Manchester, London, New York, Boston, Sydney or Brisbane amounts to a con on the part of the Government. It is an utter disgrace. The Constitutional Convention recommended that the...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Jimmy Deenihan raised this in September 2014. He is a party colleague, is he not?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We presented a Bill but the Government voted against it.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of course.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is in the United States this week.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have no doubt that he will meet representatives of Irish America as part of his visit. That is most welcome. Reaching out to and engaging in dialogue with our diaspora is essential, particularly given the massive increase in emigration again in recent years and the whole new generation of young people scattered across the globe. I know, too, that Fianna Fáil leader, Deputy Martin,...
- Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ba mhaith liom ceist a chur ar an Aire faoin Bhille um fhoréigean baile. I would like to ask the Minister about the consolidated domestic violence Bill. The report of the Femicide Watch project, Behind Closed Doors, revealed last week that 209 women and 16 children were killed by men, most of whom were either the current or former partners of the women or the fathers of the children,...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: For many Deputies, it is why they were elected.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We can agree on the point that we should behave in accordance with how we were elected. The majority of Deputies in this Dáil were elected on the basis of the abolition of water charges. That is a statement of fact. The Government does not need a commission, a committee or a long, elaborate process of reflection to understand that reality. That is what the majority of Deputies,...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: How is the Government pursuing water charges?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: How is the Government pursuing water charges?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, just said-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not answering the question.