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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Sinn Féin Bill before the Dáil is one last chance to stop thousands from losing their homes. Our legislation to extend the eviction ban buys the Government the time needed to use emergency powers to create necessary capacity and safety nets for vulnerable renters. The Bill, based on the Government's own legislation passed last October, will protect those facing eviction and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know for sure that lifting the eviction ban means the prospect of homelessness for thousands of people, and the Taoiseach knows that too. I know too their fears, their worry, their anxiety, and I know that amplifying that fact, amplifying that experience, is not in the least bit exploitative. As a matter of fact, those who face the prospect of homelessness in a matter of days expect us to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is simply not true. Have we not spent the last weeks and months, and has the Taoiseach not spent them, lamenting the fact that we are losing landlords, that we are losing capacity in the private rental sector? I ask the Taoiseach to answer this question again, and this time to try to answer it straight: where will people go? My appeal has fallen on deaf ears, it seems. We will have a...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, you are not.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá ag teipeadh glan ar an Rialtas seo maidir le tithíocht. Ba cheart dó imeacht. In ainm Dé, tá ár bpobal i mbarr a gcéille agus iad ar son tithe atá slán agus ar fáil ar phraghas réasúnta. Tá daoine i mbarr a gcéille agus iad ar son na hathraithe. Is Rialtas Shinn Féin amháin a réiteoidh an...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Now is the time for others to be given the chance to show what we can do. It is time for change. The longer Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael remain in Government, the more damage they will do. We need a general election and the sooner, the better.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has now been in power for 12 years. For seven of those years, it has been joined at the hip to Fianna Fáil. On its watch we have gone from housing crisis to housing emergency to housing disaster. The policies Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have implemented together over the course of the last decade have brought us to where we are today. They have followed an agenda that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and EU division within his Department. [14828/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [14827/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fifty-eight schools in dire need of new buildings, many of which were due to go to tender or construction, have been told that the vital projects are on hold again. Many of these school communities have been waiting for decades. In my own constituency, Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire campaigned for 20 years for its new building. It was at the final stage of the process when it received the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: So it has not been accepted yet, a Cheann Comhairle.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is high for the Garda.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is now very obvious that the Government is desperately trying to avoid a situation where we will have a straight vote on extending the eviction ban, or not, as proposed by the Sinn Féin Bill. Nothing reflects more the absolute determination, or even desperation, of the Government to go this course more than that. The Taoiseach referred to a reasoned amendment. Has that been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: She did not actually say that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has no teeth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Saying that was an insult to people who the Government will cast into homeless, be they caught in the official figures or not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It would not be difficult to be more compassionate than the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a low bar.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. It will be 4,000 homeless families.