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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The realities are these. We have waiting lists for social housing that are unbearable. I have dealt with people who have spent years on social housing waiting lists. I assume the Taoiseach has also met these people and families. As he brags about social housing delivery, he should be very aware that tens of thousands of people who languish on lists know the real story. He talked about...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can you answer the question?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised the need to introduce an emergency ban on rent increases for three years. Even though workers and families are being hammered by relentless rent hikes, the Taoiseach again dismissed that call. Over the 12 years that Fine Gael has been in Government, life has become increasingly hard for renters. In that time, rents have more than doubled. The latest Residential...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not misled anybody.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----can I assist the Government who are clearly hard of hearing?
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am not withdrawing it.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those who live-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a fact.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not. I am stating the facts, on the record of the Dáil.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those who live and work here, who walk these streets, who have grown up in Dublin and who love this city, know the score - the broken lives, broken spirits, broken health and bodies of the walking wounded. The Government refers to them as vulnerable. I call them the brutalised, the forgotten, failed by government after government, by a system and a State that grinds them up and allows them...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: The streets of Dublin's north inner city have not been safe for a long time. The area is scourged by open drug dealing, drug-taking, on-street nuisance drinking, and constant and threatening antisocial behaviour. It is in this abnormal atmosphere that people go about their daily lives. People make their journeys to work and parents do the school drop-offs with the ever-present hum of...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Many parents tell me they feel forgotten, vulnerable and afraid. They are angry. Incredible work was done to get the children back to school. I acknowledge múinteoir Pól Hansard and his staff. It has to be asked, in the immediate aftermath of this attack, where was the emergency response from the Government? Only days after the stabbing of three of their classmates, and as...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is doing that.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is just not accurate.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is simply not the case.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, when inaccuracies are stated.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: You opposed statutory timelines for years. You voted against them.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Earlier, the Taoiseach referred to the prospect of energy independence for Ireland as the moonshot of the 21st century. I raise with him the fact that yesterday we learnt that 95% of industry experts believe that, in fact, we will sail right past our 2030 target of 80% of our energy being from renewable sources. I raise with him concerns about the recent RESS 3 auction, which cleared the...