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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Number 201 of 28 June 2022, if the request for consent to increase pensions in payment and deferred pensions impacted by the implementation of the pension levy was sought by Dublin Port Company for the purpose of reversing the levy or as an inflation linked increase; when the request was received by...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and they wanted a party and people at Cabinet who would speak for them and govern for them, but Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens could not stomach that and could not stand the thought of a Government led by a party that would prioritise the well-being of ordinary people-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----over vested interests, the insiders and the golden circles.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: What did they do? They clubbed together to stop change. In doing that, they planted the seeds of their own demise and the Government's failure because, make no mistake about it: this is a Government that was born out of necessity, not ambition; formed out of a self-serving desire to keep things the same, rather than to drive progress-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and cobbled together to defend the interests of those at the top, rather than ordinary people, the very definition of cynicism, cynical politics and a cynical Government.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: And so, it is farcical that the Taoiseach proposes to hand the keys of his office back to the Tánaiste in December to carry on as normal, because it is very clear that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in power for far too long and, by God, families and workers throughout the land have paid a heavy price for that. More and more people see that we need a change of Government,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I believe we have everything we need to build a new Ireland. We can house our people.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: We can have first-class public health and education services. We can create and drive prosperity. We can also unite our country.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: You gave leeway to the Government.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: You gave a minute to the Government. Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will finish on this. Here is what I know for sure and without a shadow of a doubt. A Government led by Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael will never allow that fair and equal Ireland to be born.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: They have shown us that time and again. Workers and families deserve better and now is the moment for change.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's time is up. The people have had enough. He and his Ministers must go and make way-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for a new Government that will roll up their sleeves, get the job done with energy, with creativity, and create that stronger, fairer Ireland.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is one designed to prop up extortionate house prices and to saddle people with additional debt, and the Taoiseach boasts that people in desperation will reach for that measure. That is nauseating. The scourge of homelessness is back to record levels. People in families who never thought that they would ever be in such an horrific situation find themselves in emergency accommodation,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me suggest that the Minister be at the front of the queue when this Government packs its bags to go. It is time now for a housing Minister who will implement policies that turn the tide with a housing strategy that really matches the scale of the challenge because housing can be fixed. There is no doubt about that-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----but it will require a new Government with the right priorities-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----making the right choices. Simply put, we need a government that builds public homes on public land at a massive scale and these must be homes-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that ordinary people can afford to rent or buy.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Strike two against this failed Government relates to health. Under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, so many are denied the medical care that they badly need. Our hospitals are chronically overcrowded and we have a never-ending trolley crisis. Waiting lists have ballooned to record levels. Children with conditions, such as scoliosis or spina bifida, wait years for life-changing surgery....