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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is all in the one memo.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach expressed incredulity at what was suggested. Here are his words so that I am not accused of misrepresenting or misquoting him. The allegation here is very clear. It is that four or five Governments, four or five Attorneys General, any number of Ministers and former Ministers, some of whom are now in the Government and some in the Opposition, and dozens of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is exactly what happened. It happened in respect of preventing those who had been illegally charged in nursing homes from going to court, having the matter adjudicated and getting their money back. It also happened in respect of these citizens who, by the way, were entitled to that allowance. It was illegal. It was judged to have been ultra vires, illegal, for the State to deny those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the care for people? Where is there evidence of a government standing up for people rather than facing them down-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----many of them in the most vulnerable circumstances imaginable in society?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy was the same.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The State settles before the case goes to trial.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We cannot protect the past by attacking the vulnerable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy is the same.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hello to everyone from Ballymun in the Visitors Gallery. Yesterday he Taoiseach admitted to the Dáil that he was, in fact, briefed on Government legal strategy on nursing home charges. This was 24 hours after he stated that he was not involved in the strategy and sought to put distance between himself and it. Not only did he admit he was briefed and that his predecessors and...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are approaching the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin's barbaric and illegal invasion of Ukraine. It is important that we once again extend our solidarity to all of those fleeing the horrendous bloodshed. Everything that can be done must be done to bring to an end this cruel and senseless war. As a neutral country, we can play a unique role in advocating for peace and dialogue to end...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We once again have record homelessness figures. Nearly 3,500 children live with that trauma. I ask the Taoiseach, as his first move in dealing with child poverty, which requires dealing with poverty itself, to commit to extending the ban on evictions, which is due to run out in a short number of weeks. As a confidence-building gesture around this commitment to deal with child poverty, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The case for a citizens' assembly on drugs has been made for a long time and there is an urgency around it. I support it. I wish it could be brought forward more quickly than the Taoiseach has indicated but I appeal to him to stick to the commitment and to the date as set out. Would the Taoiseach believe me if I told him that for the past year and a half there has been no functioning...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality will next meet. [61817/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, GREVIO, which is tasked with monitoring signatory states' implementation of the Istanbul Convention, is meeting with Irish stakeholders this week. In its submission to GREVIO, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, has called for the urgent implementation of multi-agency domestic homicide...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is contested.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked how many cases there are, as of today, that are still live.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is contested too.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure people will have heard very clearly that not alone had the Taoiseach been briefed on and overseen the legal strategy to frustrate those who had been illegally charged in getting their money back but that, in fact, he supports that strategy, and I assume that stands for his colleague, the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris. It needs to be said that neither the Ombudsman or the Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: There was no legal entitlement to charge.