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Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----and openly and repeatedly violates international law. If the European Union is a Union of values, of peace, then the EU must be to the fore in forming a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine with the same international determination and momentum that defeated apartheid in South Africa three decades ago. Tá a fhios againn nuair a oibríonn muid le...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ben arrivata, Signora Presidente. You are very welcome, Madam President. Ireland is a nation that stands proudly for the values of democracy, solidarity, equality and human dignity, for freedom. These are values shared and cherished by the peoples of Europe as we strive to shape a bright future for workers, families and communities in a rapidly changing world. They are of course the...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----and openly and repeatedly violates international law. If the European Union is a Union of values, of peace, then the EU must be to the fore in forming a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine with the same international determination and momentum that defeated apartheid in South Africa three decades ago. Tá a fhios againn nuair a oibríonn muid le...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (2 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 19 January 2023, when he will establish a network of family contact centres to enable supervised meetings or handovers of children between parents who are no longer together or where domestic abuse has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [4087/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and his Cabinet colleagues were advised in a secret memo in 2011 that the withholding of the disabled persons maintenance allowance from people with disabilities was illegal. In the words of the memo circulated to the Taoiseach and the Government, the regulations were "plainly ultra viresand void". The State had not, as the Taoiseach said, a leg to stand on and, therefore, a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, though.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach was briefed on it, was he not?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is all in the one memo.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach expressed incredulity at what was suggested. Here are his words so that I am not accused of misrepresenting or misquoting him. The allegation here is very clear. It is that four or five Governments, four or five Attorneys General, any number of Ministers and former Ministers, some of whom are now in the Government and some in the Opposition, and dozens of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is exactly what happened. It happened in respect of preventing those who had been illegally charged in nursing homes from going to court, having the matter adjudicated and getting their money back. It also happened in respect of these citizens who, by the way, were entitled to that allowance. It was illegal. It was judged to have been ultra vires, illegal, for the State to deny those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the care for people? Where is there evidence of a government standing up for people rather than facing them down-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----many of them in the most vulnerable circumstances imaginable in society?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy was the same.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The State settles before the case goes to trial.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We cannot protect the past by attacking the vulnerable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The strategy is the same.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hello to everyone from Ballymun in the Visitors Gallery. Yesterday he Taoiseach admitted to the Dáil that he was, in fact, briefed on Government legal strategy on nursing home charges. This was 24 hours after he stated that he was not involved in the strategy and sought to put distance between himself and it. Not only did he admit he was briefed and that his predecessors and...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are approaching the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin's barbaric and illegal invasion of Ukraine. It is important that we once again extend our solidarity to all of those fleeing the horrendous bloodshed. Everything that can be done must be done to bring to an end this cruel and senseless war. As a neutral country, we can play a unique role in advocating for peace and dialogue to end...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We once again have record homelessness figures. Nearly 3,500 children live with that trauma. I ask the Taoiseach, as his first move in dealing with child poverty, which requires dealing with poverty itself, to commit to extending the ban on evictions, which is due to run out in a short number of weeks. As a confidence-building gesture around this commitment to deal with child poverty, I...