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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (11 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will introduce legislation providing for maternity leave for Oireachtas Members; and the constitutional and practical concerns that prevented him from including these provisions in the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, as previously committed to. [22257/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the North Sea Summit. [20297/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: At dawn on Sunday, Israeli forces arrived at a primary school in Jubbet ad-Dhib, a village in the occupied West Bank. They proceeded to bulldoze the EU-funded school building to the ground. In the aftermath, we saw the heartbreaking image of children as young as six sifting through the rubble for their schoolbooks. The demolition of Palestinian schools is a terrifying feature of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fáilte roimh gach duine from the Banner. We also have people here from Indiana in the US and others. They are very welcome. I have made the case to the Taoiseach – I hope he has heard what I am saying – that a meeting with the sector, while welcome, is not enough in and of itself. A message to the sector asking it to bring costs down is welcome but that equally is...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach well knows, food costs are crippling ordinary workers and families. Price hike after price hike has hit people's pockets hard. There is no sign of these costs coming down. Inflation in Irish supermarkets is at the highest level ever recorded, with the past three months alone seeing food inflation soar by up to 16.6%. The average shopper is set to see their annual grocery...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy Carthy. We mark the 73rd anniversary of the signing of the historic Schuman Declaration at a time of great challenge for Europe and the world. The last three years have tested the resilience, togetherness and solidarity of the peoples of Europe in profound ways. A perfect storm of crises came in the shape of a global pandemic, a soaring cost-of-living and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will have to agree to differ with Deputy Ó Murchú on some of that. Two years ago, the European Commission sought to block a citizens' initiative calling for the EU to regulate commercial transactions with illegal settlements. This wrongful act was nullified by the European Court of Justice. Last month, the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions unanimously agreed that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also asked about the equitable briefing policy and the failure of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and other offices to sign off.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [20324/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: In its interim report, the commission noted that the State Claims Agency provides it with considerable assistance with witnesses' costs applications. Indeed, the agency is a significant entity in terms of purchasing legal services. It was previously reported that the State Claims Agency the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, had all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [19138/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will next meet. [20325/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Focus Ireland's Best Interest of the Child campaign is being launched today, as the Taoiseach knows. Legislation published by the charity places an obligation on local authorities to take the best interests of the child into account when working with families who present as homeless. As the charity has highlighted, despite all the evidence of the harm that homelessness does to children,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to record my sadness at hearing of the passing of former Deputy Derek Keating. I did not realise he had died. I share our sympathies. I want to return to the story of Micheline Walsh, a 78-year-old woman. The Taoiseach described the situation in which she and her husband find themselves as very sad. It is indeed very sad. The situation is also unacceptable and, in fact, it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the additional support that will be coming? Unite the Union research published last week reflects that wages have in real terms fallen by approximately €76 per week. Leaving that aside, as already stated, 160,399 households are in arrears on their gas bills and almost 200,000 are in arrears on electricity bills. When I put the question to the Taoiseach and asked him what he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Workers and families continue to be fleeced by a cost-of-living crisis that is out of control. People’s finances are being pushed to the very bring. They are being hammered by sky-high energy bills, soaring food bills, runaway rents, mortgage interest rate hikes and a cost-of-living crisis that is hitting them from all sides. Almost a quarter of household gas customers found...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the HIV and AIDS national monument will be installed in the People's Park. [21069/23]