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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (23 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay by his Department in completing the report of the review of the Equality Acts (Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015) examining the functioning of the Acts and their effectiveness in combatting discrimination and promoting equality, which was due to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 345. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 23 February 2023, when his Department will issue a reply, given all other Departments have responded in full to the question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14431/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The agreement struck between the European Commission and the British Government on the protocol last month represents a real breakthrough and preserves protections for Ireland that were very hard won. The agreement safeguards the all-Ireland economy, preserves access to the European Single Market, protects the Good Friday Agreement and guarantees that there will be no return to a hard border...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Taoiseach have the RTB figures?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach just did that. He said there was accelerated-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [12973/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Boyd Barrett has set out the case of being damned if you do and damned if you do not, and the horrible trap that people are caught in. The Cabinet committee for Government co-ordination meets in advance of the Cabinet meeting. The Taoiseach took the decision to end the eviction ban on 7 March so the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Ryan and the associated officials would...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was the Minister at the meeting?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to add to that contribution in the same vein. The Minister for Justice commissioned an independent study into familicide and domestic homicide almost four years ago. The fair procedure strand of that process was concluded before the study was submitted to the Minister last summer but the report is still on the desk unpublished. The programme for Government, as the Taoiseach knows,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with church leaders. [12442/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: What engagement has been had with church leaders on their respective contributions to the mother and baby homes redress scheme? What progress has been made on this matter? Laura Murphy, the daughter of a mother and baby home survivor, penned an open letter to the Taoiseach, which was published online yesterday. In her letter she called on him to ensure that the Catholic Church...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Extend the eviction ban.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where do they go?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: This afternoon, the Dáil will vote on the Government's decision to lift the eviction ban in nine days' time. Every Deputy has a clear choice to make: to back a Government decision that will escalate the unprecedented housing emergency or to protect working families, single people and pensioners who, because of this decision, will lose the roof over their heads. I ask the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's Government came to office telling us that it was the Government that would sort out housing, but nothing changed; in fact, matters worsened. Deputy Varadkar came into office as Taoiseach last December. He said he would be the Taoiseach to sort this out, but nothing changed; in fact, matters worsened. There is no urgency and no ambition, only dithering and failure. However,...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why are you getting rid of the ban then?

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are evicting people.

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We do not have to.

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister really?

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister inform them of where they should go when they lose their home?