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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Ballymun. It also wants to deliver more than 2,000 affordable homes as part of the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ, in Cherry Orchard and in Coolock as well as 325 homes as part of the land initiative. However, none of this can be delivered without a scheme that lays out the criteria for who may be eligible for such homes, the income levels that will apply, and on what...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...as it pertained to Palestine. Let us assess the centre of gravity and the progress that has been made. The Palestinian people are victims of a process of colonisation and an onslaught of building of illegal settlements. Land is taken and rights are denied. People are imprisoned using a form of internment known as administrative detention, a British law that still stands. Their numbers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., what is the position in every other hospital throughout the State? Is the Taoiseach able to tell the Dáil what the total number of children being discharged to no fixed abode throughout the land is? Is he able to reassure the Dáil that he understands the extent of the damage done to young lives that are destroyed before they even start, before many of them utter a word or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The centenary commemorative events provided a moment and opportunity for many families the length and breadth of this land and beyond to remember in a very specific way the members of their family who fell in what was termed the Great War. In the midst of that very necessary remembrance of young lives lost - an entire generation - in the killing fields of Flanders, it is very important that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (28 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...a posture of rigorous impartiality. To respond to Deputy Martin, I have not advanced any absurdities. Unlike his party or the Taoiseach's party, we actually represent people in the North of Ireland. We have a democratic mandate from them. We live and work within the communities in question so I know full well the necessity and the value of good government and sustainable power...

Dublin (North Inner City) Development Authority Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...welcome, although arguably we should not need a new quango to achieve on these standard deliverables if there were a collective political will to do so. Section 5 of the Bill provides for enabling the authority to dispose of land that is in the ownership of the State on completion of its development, redevelopment, renewal or conservation. This is a significant cause of concern and a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (4 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach mentioned the report, Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland's Broken System. It is a welcome piece of work which includes a number of very welcome recommendations such as building affordability into policies designed to increase the supply of housing, starting with land and rental costs; using publicly owned land to increase the supply of housing;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Structured Dialogue Process (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of religious expression is unfettered and supported by the State and Government. In so doing, it should be reiterated that no theological view should shape or demand expression in the laws of the land. In my view, the referendum on the eighth amendment will be seen in time as a tipping point where mainstream public opinion in Ireland showed that it understood that essential division. In...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Economic and Social Council (20 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland’s Broken System report recently published by the National Economic and Social Council, NESC. [22696/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...choose the four successful candidates? How many were on the list that was handed to the Taoiseach for decision? I seek a bit more detail on the numbers. One current area of work for the council is on land use, land value and urban development. I note a recent workshop on the issue in late February, which focused in particular on housing affordability. There were presentations and...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...employment are somehow being asked to find the money to pay extortionate rent, grossly inflated insurance premiums and crushing child care costs. Each bill that comes through their letter box lands with the weight of a sledgehammer. Many of these workers live with a constant sense of vulnerability. They fear that one unexpected occurrence, such as the car breaking down or a family member...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to rescind a report (details supplied); and his plans to establish a new independent investigation regarding the compulsory acquisition of land at Charlesland, County Wicklow, by Wicklow County Council in 2004. [7105/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in Kildare VEC's handling of a €23 million school building development, as a consequence of which the Department had to bail out the VEC to the tune of €20 million. Issues were raised relating to land and property and a school development, with €139,150 paid to an auctioneer in 2008 without a competitive tender. A company was hired to work on a small scheme in 2004...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...teams, people working in the health services and everybody who pulled together in the course of this weather event to keep us all safe. I also acknowledge communities the length and breadth of the land which will never lose their capacity to care about their neighbours and to keep an eye where necessary. I want to return to the issue of the unfair changes that were made to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...I believe such structured dialogue is very good. In any republic there must be clear separations of state and churches. It is not appropriate for any faith community to expect that the law of the land tallies with its theological view of the world. We must also respect people's right to practise their faith and that cuts across all denominations - Roman Catholic and others. I ask...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure every pensioner in the land is dancing.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...people will not be able to afford increased charges. The Taoiseach's Government failed to include any meaningful alleviation measures for those on low incomes. Citizens and families across the land have been left to the mercy of private operators, especially those who produce higher than average waste because of their age, disability, ill-health or family size. Incredibly, the Taoiseach...

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I believe they could be. The one that I am thinking of relates to, I imagine, the same information which has landed with the Department, and now with the HEA.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...set by the European Union and agreed for the initial phase of talks are the rights of EU citizens living in Britain andvice versa, the financial settlement and the Irish question - the border on this island. Given the disastrous impact Brexit will have on the island of Ireland, it is more important than ever, now that the formal Brexit negotiating process has started, that we secure...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...representations made by Mr. John Barrett advising the Commissioner to make a section 41 disclosure to the Minister." Although he never says in the text that a disclosure should not be made, if it landed on my desk I would read it as an attempt to persuade me not to make that disclosure. Is that how Ms O'Sullivan read the document?