Results 101-120 of 21,383 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tens of thousands every year. Watch that now. Watch that bubble.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do you want to keep people in their homes?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is this? This is extraordinary.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has been asked three times.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Your press release, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The press release. You are not chairing a committee.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What the Taoiseach is about is screwing renters.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is about doing it very brazenly and then he wants to try to distract from that fact. He should go ahead and extend the 2% cap across the State. He should do that. We will support him in doing it. I do not think anyone will object to that. However, that does not disguise the actual intent and the effect, in the here and now and in the long term, of what he is about to do. The rent...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, they will.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is the import of the Government's proposal. The disappointing thing is everybody knows rents are extortionate at this point. The job of a responsible Government is to ensure a cut in rents and to ban rent increases.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Instead, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael want to facilitate the jacking up of rents. It is disgraceful.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I extend a céad míle fáilte to Aran and Sophie Byrne who are recently married. They are here with their family - love's young dream in the Dáil. I also welcome the Moylagh Historical Society from the royal county. Fáilte romhaibh ar fad. The Taoiseach repeatedly tells us that fixing housing is his number one priority so people have waited for the big initiative...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she proposes to bridge the current qualification gap experienced by special needs teachers who hold a BA in early childhood education awarded outside the State to enable them to continue to work in Irish special schools. [29572/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the Teaching Council of Ireland to issue guidance to special needs teachers who hold BA in early childhood education awarded outside the State to enable them to continue to work in Irish special schools. [29573/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 703. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if participants on the basic income for artists pilot scheme will be eligible to participate in the follow-on scheme; to provide a timeframe for when he expects to have a follow-on scheme in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29457/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 704. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the three-year basic income for artists pilot scheme is due to end in August 2025, despite having commenced in October 2022; if the participating artists have been informed of this anomaly and supported to plan for their financial stability upon its conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29458/25]