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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is now very obvious that the Government is desperately trying to avoid a situation where we will have a straight vote on extending the eviction ban, or not, as proposed by the Sinn Féin Bill. Nothing reflects more the absolute determination, or even desperation, of the Government to go this course more than that. The Taoiseach referred to a reasoned amendment. Has that been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: She did not actually say that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has no teeth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Saying that was an insult to people who the Government will cast into homeless, be they caught in the official figures or not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It would not be difficult to be more compassionate than the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a low bar.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. It will be 4,000 homeless families.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is 4,000 homeless families.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is a disgrace.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not new.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is inaccurate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Our Bill buys the Government time to do what it needs to do. I said in my initially commentary the demonstrable unanswerable evidence of the Government's absolute failure to provide housing and failure to protect renters is everywhere to be seen and felt. At no time did I say that 4,000 people would find themselves in emergency accommodation, much less 4,000 households, for the simple...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have had a housing crisis for more than a decade and this Government has been in office for three years yet only now a report comes to Cabinet stating what everybody already knew, which is that thousands of homes could be built on public land. For years, we have said that building public homes on public land is the answer to the housing crisis. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil turned a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the emergency measures he will take to address the significant backlog of applications to An Bord Pleanála, which has resulted in the agency failing to decide on nearly two-thirds of current applications within the statutory timeframe. [15227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €5 million allocated from NAMA in 2014 for the development of a heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15272/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €12.7 million in funding allocated by his Department for the interpretation stage for the heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15273/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not included a national action plan to address female genital mutilation in the Third Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, as called for by the National Steering Committee on FGM. [15213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 647. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 recognition payment will be paid to a qualified person (details supplied) who has supplied their information as requested in November 2022. [14792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 708. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department's review of the rationale for the disclosure of counselling notes as part of court proceedings, including a victim or survivor perspective, commenced in July 2022 will be completed. [15215/23]