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

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course the removal of the development levies is a viability measure. It carries with it no guarantee of a reduction in cost to the end buyer. In other words, it does absolutely nothing in terms of the affordability dilemma. I do not know whether to be more taken aback by the Taoiseach's sense of self-congratulation or the obvious inertia in which he wallows at this point. Where I come...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: We have had a housing crisis for more than a decade. It is a social catastrophe driven by the political choices made by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in that time. The situation is especially acute for our young people, for public services and for business. It is crystal clear that the Government does not appreciate the scale of the challenge. What is needed is a major step change from...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----will stand shoulder to shoulder with communities to face these thugs down.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Everyone has the right to feel safe in their home, on their streets and in their neighbourhood. This right has been taken from so many communities by organised criminals and drug gangs, gangs of thugs using violence, menace and intimidation to exploit working-class communities, targeting our young people to groom them into a dead-end life of crime. They prey on vulnerability and poverty and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in the Dublin central constituency in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and planned number to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that the Courts Service is unable to confirm if there have been any convictions under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 as prosecutors may use free text codes for which it is not possible for the service to run reports; the action he will take to rectify this serious matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that the HSE has not put in place special support services required by victims and survivors of FGM as set out in Action 2.4.12 of the Department’s Third National Strategy on Domestic Sexual and Gender Based Violence Implementation Plan; and what actions he will take to address this matter. [18813/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that the HSE has not completed the mapping of current FGM service provision and allocated funding as set out in Action 2.4.12 of the Department’s Third National Strategy on Domestic Sexual and Gender Based Violence Implementation Plan committed to be completed by Q4 2022; and what actions he will take to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: You believe in neither.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are in government 12 years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in power now for more than 12 years. In this time we have seen Government make decision after decision that have escalated the housing crisis into a full-blown emergency. Rents are out of control and a whole generation is locked out of home ownership. Homelessness has reached a record level that we could only have imagined. This is the dire situation seven years after...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The critical distinction between here and the North-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----is that here, public finance is not the issue and there it is. There, the block grant and the Tories are an issue. I do not have the space, a Cheann Comhairle, to elaborate beyond that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government now for 12 years and the Minister has sat at the Cabinet table, if I am correct, for the entirety of that time. When he was the housing Minister there were 5,000 souls, God help them, homeless. There are now 12,000. We have record house prices and record, extortionate rents. We have a Government which brags of its largesse and the billions coming into the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister says the Government has everything sorted. I told him about Eamon, his son and his three children. I told him about Margaret, her daughter and her two children. I told him about Colm. These are real people who have nowhere to go, unless I am mistaken and the Minister actually has an answer to that. I put it to the Minister again. For families who will face eviction, where...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last month the Council of Europe published its annual conclusions assessing member states' compliance with the European Social Charter on labour rights. The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe treaty that guarantees fundamental social and economic rights to member state citizens. Ireland is in breach of nine separate areas of rights relating to workers' terms and conditions of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [14831/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [18062/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Children's Rights Alliance recently published its annual report card on progress for children under the current programme for Government. The performance in delivering adequate youth mental health received the lowest grade for a second year in a row. The alliance notes that the Maskey report on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in Kerry, and the Mental Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Taoiseach. The visit was hugely successful. It was a visit primarily about Ireland and it involved a person with a very deep connection with this country returning home. I for one think we should be gracious about that. Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties and objections we have to wider American foreign policy, let it be said and clearly understood that the US was...