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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is 4,000 homeless families.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is a disgrace.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not new.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That is inaccurate.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Our Bill buys the Government time to do what it needs to do. I said in my initially commentary the demonstrable unanswerable evidence of the Government's absolute failure to provide housing and failure to protect renters is everywhere to be seen and felt. At no time did I say that 4,000 people would find themselves in emergency accommodation, much less 4,000 households, for the simple...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: We have had a housing crisis for more than a decade and this Government has been in office for three years yet only now a report comes to Cabinet stating what everybody already knew, which is that thousands of homes could be built on public land. For years, we have said that building public homes on public land is the answer to the housing crisis. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil turned a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the emergency measures he will take to address the significant backlog of applications to An Bord Pleanála, which has resulted in the agency failing to decide on nearly two-thirds of current applications within the statutory timeframe. [15227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €5 million allocated from NAMA in 2014 for the development of a heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15272/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €12.7 million in funding allocated by his Department for the interpretation stage for the heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15273/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not included a national action plan to address female genital mutilation in the Third Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, as called for by the National Steering Committee on FGM. [15213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 647. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 recognition payment will be paid to a qualified person (details supplied) who has supplied their information as requested in November 2022. [14792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 708. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department's review of the rationale for the disclosure of counselling notes as part of court proceedings, including a victim or survivor perspective, commenced in July 2022 will be completed. [15215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (23 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay by his Department in completing the report of the review of the Equality Acts (Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015) examining the functioning of the Acts and their effectiveness in combatting discrimination and promoting equality, which was due to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 345. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 23 February 2023, when his Department will issue a reply, given all other Departments have responded in full to the question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14431/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The agreement struck between the European Commission and the British Government on the protocol last month represents a real breakthrough and preserves protections for Ireland that were very hard won. The agreement safeguards the all-Ireland economy, preserves access to the European Single Market, protects the Good Friday Agreement and guarantees that there will be no return to a hard border...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Taoiseach have the RTB figures?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach just did that. He said there was accelerated-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [12973/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Boyd Barrett has set out the case of being damned if you do and damned if you do not, and the horrible trap that people are caught in. The Cabinet committee for Government co-ordination meets in advance of the Cabinet meeting. The Taoiseach took the decision to end the eviction ban on 7 March so the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Ryan and the associated officials would...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was the Minister at the meeting?