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Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the gender pay gap report from his Department. [5645/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We also need further supports in respect of energy costs. Will the Taoiseach put together such a package and, if so, when will he announce it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and members of the Cabinet decide. The Taoiseach has very significant questions to answer on these matters from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and, let it be said, others, including those within the Labour Party.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope the Taoiseach and his colleagues, rather than answering individual questions, will make a comprehensive statement on these matters. The levels of child poverty in the State are absolutely unacceptable. We have seen the worsening situation for workers and families laid bare in a report by Barnardos, published this morning. The Taoiseach is probably familiar with its key findings....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. The Attorney General has published his report. There is nothing terribly surprising in it but it is disingenuous of the Taoiseach to describe the treatment of vulnerable citizens as merely an historical phenomenon. The political choices that were made by successive governments are very much contemporary. The Attorney General has set out the legal stall from his point of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not imagine for a second that we or the families who are struggling can wait for the next budget. That is completely unreal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. As he said, there are 186,000 borrowers on tracker mortgages, 129,000 on standard variable rates and more than 113,000 with non-banks and vulture funds. Some borrowers are being affected very dramatically and very immediately with these five hikes so far and with more to come. I do not believe the Government should hesitate on this matter. The reality, as we know,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: First of all, I wish to record the shock felt across the world at the natural disaster and devastation we have witnessed in Türkiye and Syria. We extend our solidarity to all those hurt and injured and urge the global community to rally to the support of these devastated communities. Last Thursday the European Central Bank increased interest rates for the fifth time since July of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 279. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made by the European Union and the international unit of his Department in finalising Ireland’s child guarantee action plan, for which work was initiated by his officials in 2021. [5543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 298. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the study commissioned by him to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, the National Strategy for Women and Girls as well as the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy. [6077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the officials in his Department have completed their examination and analysis of the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews submitted to him in the summer of 2022. [5927/23]

Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ben arrivata, Signora Presidente. You are very welcome, Madam President. Ireland is a nation that stands proudly for the values of democracy, solidarity, equality and human dignity, for freedom. These are values shared and cherished by the peoples of Europe as we strive to shape a bright future for workers, families and communities in a rapidly changing world. They are of course the...

Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----and openly and repeatedly violates international law. If the European Union is a Union of values, of peace, then the EU must be to the fore in forming a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine with the same international determination and momentum that defeated apartheid in South Africa three decades ago. Tá a fhios againn nuair a oibríonn muid le...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ben arrivata, Signora Presidente. You are very welcome, Madam President. Ireland is a nation that stands proudly for the values of democracy, solidarity, equality and human dignity, for freedom. These are values shared and cherished by the peoples of Europe as we strive to shape a bright future for workers, families and communities in a rapidly changing world. They are of course the...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----and openly and repeatedly violates international law. If the European Union is a Union of values, of peace, then the EU must be to the fore in forming a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine with the same international determination and momentum that defeated apartheid in South Africa three decades ago. Tá a fhios againn nuair a oibríonn muid le...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 19 January 2023, when he will establish a network of family contact centres to enable supervised meetings or handovers of children between parents who are no longer together or where domestic abuse has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [4087/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and his Cabinet colleagues were advised in a secret memo in 2011 that the withholding of the disabled persons maintenance allowance from people with disabilities was illegal. In the words of the memo circulated to the Taoiseach and the Government, the regulations were "plainly ultra viresand void". The State had not, as the Taoiseach said, a leg to stand on and, therefore, a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, though.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, was he not?