Results 961-980 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The point is that the Housing Commission report is damning. It is not neutral in its assessment of the Government's performance; it is damning and states very clearly the Government's failures. An important failing it identifies is the fact that the Government has turned what should be a temporary, short-term support into a permanent feature in the lives of many people. The Taoiseach did...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [21363/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the commencement of S27-47 (Part 5) of the Criminal Justice Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023; the reason for the delay in commencing Part 5 of the Act; and when Part 5 of the Act providing for much needed civil orders against stalking will be commenced. [23232/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [21665/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raised with the Taoiseach last week the case of 13-year-old Liam Dennehy Quinn because it is an emergency. As the Taoiseach knows, Liam has been waiting for more than six months for an urgently needed spinal surgery. He has been in hospital now for more than six weeks. He cannot leave because the severity of his scoliosis puts him at risk of choking episodes at any time. His family was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I said, the party is now 13 years in government. Any fair analysis of the facts reflects record house prices, record rents and record homelessness. I do not know what world the Taoiseach lives in, but the reality I meet in communities across the State is one of crisis, stress and, in many cases, misery. I do not think I am overstating it to say that when people live in overcrowded...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the past year the Government has been telling everyone it has turned the corner on housing. Even as so many people across our society struggle to find an affordable home, it dresses up failure as progress. Today, however, we know the truth. The Housing Commission, established by the Government, has called the Government out today. Its leaked report, which would not have seen the light...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a new school build in County Dublin (details supplied); the estimated completion date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22505/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm how many days of work have taken place on-site this year at the construction of a new school build in County Dublin (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22506/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to the continued provision of the extra SNA allocated to a school in County Dublin (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22507/24]

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: As we are waiting, I am sure the Ceann Comhairle would like, on behalf of the House, to extend a welcome to the families from Justice for the Forgotten, who are joining us.

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recalling the motion it adopted unanimously on 10th July, 2008 which: — noted "the interim and final reports of the sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights on the report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin-Monaghan Bombings and the three related Barron Reports, including the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his recent engagement with the Spanish Prime Minister, with specific regard to the recognition of a Palestinian state. [20335/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thirteen-year-old Liam Dennehy Quinn has rapidly deteriorating scoliosis. Liam has been hospital bound for the past five and a half weeks. His curvature was at 85o in November but has had no spinal review during his five weeks in hospital. Liam has been given a surgery date of 30 May but his mother Pamela says he is deteriorating by the day and running out of time. Liam has to use oxygen...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We made the request and you knocked us back.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: You knocked us back.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. For the second week now, I ask that the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, present themselves and make a statement to the House on their handling of the immigration issue, particularly the situation as pertains today on the Grand Canal in Dublin, where there are now 40 tents with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I go across the country, I meet people who live with the consequences of the Taoiseach's housing policy. Here is what they experience: record rents they struggle to afford, record homelessness which leaves families and children in misery, a collapse in home ownership and an entire generation locked out of any real expectation of ever owning a home. Consequential to that, so many,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government for 13 years and in that time the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse. It is not an accident. We now have a full-blown housing disaster because the Government has the wrong priorities and the wrong policies. As a result, many workers and families are simply unable to put a secure, affordable roof over their head. A defining feature of Fine Gael...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We mark the 74th anniversary of the signing of the Schuman Declaration, which revolutionised the political, economic and social landscape of Europe. When Ireland joined on 1 January 1973, I was a baby. My colleague here, Deputy Carthy, was not even a twinkle in his mammy's eye. Both of us have grown up in a country that has known nothing other than to be part of what was an economic...