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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise the issue of the patient safety Bill. Members will acknowledge and remember that recently, at the time of the death of Vicky Phelan, the Taoiseach reiterated a Government promise to achieve full open disclosure. The legislation is to come before the House and the debate is to be guillotined. The Minister for Health has tabled 50 separate amendments but the one amendment we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, it will still fall to the woman to require a review.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is absolutely outrageous and totally unacceptable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact the Government would seek to move flawed legislation in this way and, furthermore, to guillotine the debate is all the more insulting to the women who have suffered as a result of the CervicalCheck scandal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me tell the Minister this: the Government's policies are driving an entire generation of our young people to Perth, Sydney, Toronto and beyond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is what the Government is at. I will tell the Minister what our policies will do: our approach will move heaven and earth to keep those young people at home or, if they have gone away, to give them an opportunity to come back. The Minister describes this as a significant challenge. Let us get the language right. This is an emergency and a disaster for families in their real, lived...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It comes in here week after week to tell fairy tales and make-believe, imagining its approach is working, when it is plainly failing. I drew the Minister's attention to the distinction between an 82% growth in rents as against 18%, which is the EU average and I asked how the Government would respond to that

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have given the Minister two ideas: one is a refundable tax credit for renters to put a month's rent back in their pockets and reduce rents; and a complete and effective ban on rent increases. Will the Minister deal with those two issues?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not working.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The report published this morning by the Banking and Payment Federation of Ireland, BPFI, confirms what we already know, which is that the housing policy of the Government is failing abysmally. The BPFI analysis is stark. Since 2010, rents in Ireland have soared by a whopping 82% compared with an EU average of 18% for the same period. This rip-off of Ireland's renters has happened on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will now initiate a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) as instructed by the Dáil on the 14 June 2018 in view of the completion of the scoping exercise. [60658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that persons applying for social housing or a social housing transfer due to a disability or medical grounds must provide medical references from two separate healthcare professionals when completing the HMD form 1; if he is aware that persons applying for other State supports due to disability or medical grounds...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 401. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has increased the renewed 2023 core funding provided by his Department to community development organisations in receipt of funding for the current and previous years to provide for increased operating costs arising from inflation, energy costs and related outgoings. [60659/22]

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland is a proud, ancient European nation. In the new year, we will mark 50 years since becoming a member of what was then the European Communities in 1973. Since then, it has been quite a journey. There have been so many positive advances in areas such as equality, workers’ rights, environmental standards and economic progress. There have been many challenges too, including...

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland has changed and is changing. Brexit is responsible for some of that. The EU took a significant decision when it stated to our then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at the outset of Brexit that, in the context of Irish reunification, the North will automatically rejoin the EU and the North’s citizens will become full EU citizens once again. That is a very important statement...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland is a proud, ancient European nation. In the new year, we will mark 50 years since becoming a member of what was then the European Communities in 1973. Since then, it has been quite a journey. There have been so many positive advances in areas such as equality, workers’ rights, environmental standards and economic progress. There have been many challenges too, including...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland has changed and is changing. Brexit is responsible for some of that. The EU took a significant decision when it stated to our then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at the outset of Brexit that, in the context of Irish reunification, the North will automatically rejoin the EU and the North’s citizens will become full EU citizens once again. That is a very important statement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department's Covid-19 and health unit. [57548/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59150/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have two questions. Will the Taoiseach give an explanation as to why the long Covid clinic at the Mater hospital in Dublin is to close? What is the basis for that decision, which seems deeply unwise? Second, I refer to community disability services, which have been caught in a debacle around the transfer of functions from the Department of Health to the Department of Children,...