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Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The well-being framework tells us that the number of people experiencing discrimination in Ireland is rising. It is important to acknowledge this reality today as we mark International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Analysis commissioned by the Higher Education Authority, HEA, in 2021 found that more than a third of minority ethnic third level staff were subjected to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Friends of the Earth research has established serious problems with the Government's retrofitting and energy efficiency programmes, which include waiting lists of up to three years for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's free home energy upgrades for lower income households. According to the report, "Government policy on energy poverty is lacking in scale and ambition, with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [10768/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [12441/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Agreement on the protocol between the European Union and the British Government has been secured. The negotiations are over and the deal has been struck. The majority of people, political parties and business interests in the North want the Executive to be restored and those who were elected almost a year ago to get back to the business of governing. The Withdrawal Agreement Joint...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach presides over a homeless catastrophe. We have 12,000 homeless people, more than 3,000 of whom are children. Some 3,000 eviction notices will fall due in April. What is an acceptable level of homelessness? Will the Taoiseach tell us where those 3,000 households will go in the event of losing the roof over their heads? Will the Taoiseach guarantee to this House that no family...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do your work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is sitting on its hands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: To protect renters, we need an extension of the eviction ban and we need Government pace and ambition. As a matter of fact, we need a new Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That much is evidently clear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, it will not. Continuing in Government will make the situation worse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: When Deputy Varadkar re-entered the office of Taoiseach in December he said housing would be his priority. Now his first major housing decision is to put thousands of renters at risk of losing their homes. With his eyes wide open, the Taoiseach intends to lift the eviction ban knowing that it will spell disaster for so many. It will mean people losing their homes. It will mean some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government plans to lift the eviction ban in ten days. If it does this, where are the working families, single people and pensioners at risk of losing their homes meant to go? This question has been put to the Taoiseach repeatedly and those people still wait for an answer. Without putting any measures in place, the Government intends to remove this protection for renters during an...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has submitted the business case and consent request to the Minister for Public Expenditure as required regarding a company's (details supplied) approved pension increase as submitted to him in July 2022. [13180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the 58 schools whose building projects have been put on hold from proceeding to either tender or construction phases due to capital funding pressures, in tabular form. [13095/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, the National Strategy for Women and Girls as well as the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy to be completed early this year has not yet...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 which was due to be published at the end of 2022; and if he is satisfied that the State is meeting its international legal obligations to children as it has still not ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the programme for Government commitment to introduce domestic homicide reviews legislation can be delivered as he has yet to publish the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews submitted to him in the summer of 2022; and if he remains committed to the zero tolerance policy as set out in the Third Strategy on...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, Hear.

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share time with Deputies Funchion, O'Reilly and Kerrane.