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Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: If I could continue without the endless heckling from the Taoiseach and his colleague.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Acting Chair for the clarification. To clarify further, I was being barracked and not vice versa. The Taoiseach is aware that since Michelle O'Neill was elected First Minister designate in May, the DUP has refused to re-enter the Executive and appoint a deputy First Minister. The DUP cites concerns around the protocol but the reality is it is holding democracy to ransom. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [48038/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: He certainly would not, leak or no leak.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In July, Shane O'Farrell's patients, Lucia and Jim, received a copy of the final scoping exercise report into Shane's death. The process took over three years. It is important to acknowledge that every State-sponsored mechanism by which the family have sought to secure the truth of the events leading to Shane's death has taken an inexcusable time to be completed, with the strategy being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: NESC has just published the findings of focus group work undertaken in the north-west on the experiences of people in the Border areas under the themes of sustainability and connectivity. Indeed, connectivity concerns are at the heart of this work. The Taoiseach met with a cross-party delegation of councillors from Donegal, Derry and Strabane earlier this year. During that meeting, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. First, I endorse that call for immediate action on the citizens' assembly on the issue of drugs. The matter is outstanding and is urgent. As Deputy Gannon said, we know from our own constituency and the communities we represent just how critical this is. I also want to ask the Taoiseach about a citizens' assembly on the issue of Irish reunification....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know if the Taoiseach heard the voices of the thousands of students who last Thursday took part in a walk-out protest against the Government's failure to tackle the student accommodation crisis. I do not know if he heard their experiences of the impossibility of finding any accommodation, the real pressure of this cost-of-living crisis, impossible and crazy commutes for so many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Unbelievable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night, Sinn Féin brought a motion before the Dáil calling on the Government to ensure that households are protected from electricity and gas disconnection this winter. Our motion proposes a ban on disconnections now instead of waiting until December as the Government's plan suggests. It would provide desperately needed protection and certainty for the hundreds of thousands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The difficulty lies in the Taoiseach's statement that the Minister "will continue to engage". I am very concerned that there is not a sense of pace in the Taoiseach's response to this situation, which is one of incredible stress and worry for hundreds of thousands of families throughout the land. The Taoiseach's concern about people falling into debt is understandable but I need to say that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a copy of the business case undertaken by his Department on the establishment of a passport office in Belfast; the date on which this work was initiated; the date on which it concluded and if this work was undertaken by officials in his Department or outsourced to another agency, organisation or academic. [52305/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the DEIS status was not granted to a school (details supplied) despite approximately 80% of its student population residing in an area of extreme social and economic disadvantage; and if she will provide the school's ranking within the refined DEIS identification and its scores on the Pobal HP Deprivation index. [52281/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school build project (details supplied) will move to the tender stage. [52295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 221, 222 and 223 of 28 September 2022, when full replies will be issued. [52284/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cost of Living Issues (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that the Government is putting in place to help support a vital service during the cost-of-living crisis (details supplied). [52276/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [45437/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit in his Department. [48039/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [49697/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Two weeks ago, the Taoiseach gave a commitment that no household would be disconnected from electricity this winter, including households using prepaid meters. However, since then, the Government has not introduced any plan to protect prepay customers from disconnection. This can and must be done. As the Taoiseach knows, some prepay companies already have bans on disconnections at weekends...