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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----is that here, public finance is not the issue and there it is. There, the block grant and the Tories are an issue. I do not have the space, a Cheann Comhairle, to elaborate beyond that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government now for 12 years and the Minister has sat at the Cabinet table, if I am correct, for the entirety of that time. When he was the housing Minister there were 5,000 souls, God help them, homeless. There are now 12,000. We have record house prices and record, extortionate rents. We have a Government which brags of its largesse and the billions coming into the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister says the Government has everything sorted. I told him about Eamon, his son and his three children. I told him about Margaret, her daughter and her two children. I told him about Colm. These are real people who have nowhere to go, unless I am mistaken and the Minister actually has an answer to that. I put it to the Minister again. For families who will face eviction, where...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last month the Council of Europe published its annual conclusions assessing member states' compliance with the European Social Charter on labour rights. The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe treaty that guarantees fundamental social and economic rights to member state citizens. Ireland is in breach of nine separate areas of rights relating to workers' terms and conditions of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [14831/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [18062/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Children's Rights Alliance recently published its annual report card on progress for children under the current programme for Government. The performance in delivering adequate youth mental health received the lowest grade for a second year in a row. The alliance notes that the Maskey report on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in Kerry, and the Mental Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Taoiseach. The visit was hugely successful. It was a visit primarily about Ireland and it involved a person with a very deep connection with this country returning home. I for one think we should be gracious about that. Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties and objections we have to wider American foreign policy, let it be said and clearly understood that the US was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the President of the United States. [18061/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. As we speak, people protest at the gates calling on the Government to ratify and implement the optional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. The Government signed the convention five years ago but despite commitments made, it has still not ratified the optional protocol. This protocol is crucial for people with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was castigating them for not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The one thing that is absolutely clear is that the Government's failure to rise to the housing emergency is having real and devastating consequences for people's lives. The figures published reflect the fact that the Government missed its target on affordable housing by almost 60%. If the Taoiseach counts that as an achievement, or if he regards that as an acceptable level of performance,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach again to accept that this disaster is looming for these families and do the only quick thing he can do, which is to reinstate the eviction ban and, for God's sake, buy the time the Government clearly needs to get this right and protect these families.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The following are the words of Arklow teacher, Aoife Ni Chéileachair, who told her heartbreaking story to the media: I am going to be evicted at the start of the last week of term. It's gotten to the point that I may not be able to take my job up next September because I have nowhere to live in the vicinity. In a few short weeks, she faces eviction from the home she has rented for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has concluded his consideration of the Derry City Airport’s economic assessment and supporting materials for a Dublin/Derry air route submitted to his Department in December 2022; the progress he has made in delivering on the air connectivity review commitment under the New Decade, New Approach agreement since taking up...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 434. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the guidelines or criteria that determine allocation and the allocation process of OPW lodges in the Phoenix Park for rental purposes. [16595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 435. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm how many persons are on the waiting list for OPW lodges in the Phoenix Park. [16596/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 436. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm how many vacant OPW lodges there are in the OPW; and when they will be due to be allocated. [16597/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new school (details supplied) build project will now proceed to construction. [18003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 852. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €121.3 million funding for Dublin’s north inner city announced in 2021. [18002/23]