Results 301-320 of 20,465 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: My eyes are wide open. Listening to the Taoiseach, one would imagine there is no problem at all. One would scratch one's head and wonder why thousands of our young brightest and best are mobilising on the streets today because according to the Taoiseach, there is no problem. According to him, it is not a problem that students commute for hours and hours to the extent that their social...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: They come here to ask questions of the Taoiseach and the Government as to what they will do, and it seems the Taoiseach is coming up blank for them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not good enough. What will the Taoiseach do in next week's budget to make a real difference in these young people's lives?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the past two years the north inner city has been without any drugs and alcohol task force. For those two years the HSE has consistently and wrongly claimed the task force acted outside of its remit or beyond its powers in its appointment of its new chairperson. The HSE and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, issued a statement yesterday that they will reconstitute the drug task...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact of the matter is the HSE has toppled the community leadership there. It is disgraceful behaviour by the HSE and the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is fair to say that all of us across the House want to see this dispute resolved. It is unconscionable that we would have a further escalation in this dispute. It is clear that relationships have been strained and are very damaged. I appeal to all concerned to re-engage in a calm-headed way. Rostering must be resolved but either party digging in and being intemperate or immovable on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda Representative Association, GRA, has started its protest against roster changes that are due to kick in from next month. This action sees gardaí refusing voluntary overtime. It is an escalation in a dispute that has deepened and intensified over the past year. It is very concerning that matters have come to this point. I have no doubt the public is very alarmed at this turn...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (28 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 282. To ask the Minister for Health what funding is available to older persons seeking support to adapt their homes via the health-age-friendly-homes programme; what steps older persons seeking support should take to access this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42011/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join in commending members of An Garda Síochána, our Defence Forces, the Naval Service and the Army Ranger Wing on the successful operation off our coast yesterday. It demonstrates the need to invest in Naval Service capacity and in the wider Defence Forces. The truth is that our Naval Service cannot monitor our seas effectively and this is due to decades of under-investment....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I absolutely agree with the Taoiseach that nobody should jump to conclusions. What I am asking him to do, and this is a necessary precursor to getting the terms of reference for the review right, is simply to establish, as a matter of fact, whether a meeting or meetings occurred involving clinicians, and also the head of Children's Health Ireland, CHI, in which these experimental surgical...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. The shocking revelations regarding paediatric surgery at Temple Street Children's Hospital have been met with huge anger and disbelief. It is hard to wrap one's head around the pain and damage experienced by the children and families affected, with 19 vulnerable children harmed, traumatised, in what was a catastrophic, unfathomable breach of care...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was a pathetic answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 1 September, the Government increased the price of petrol and diesel by 7 cent and 5 cent per litre, respectively. As the Taoiseach knows, we are in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis. In that regard, it makes no sense and flies in the face of any semblance of fairness to go ahead with the increases the Government has proposed for 11 and 31 October. If they go ahead, the Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to see the Government fund the sector.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is this questions to the Opposition?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that response. Notwithstanding that this is a minority-led dispute, as he says, I am sure he will accept that those concerned do in many ways speak for the entirety of the sector, certainly for an awful lot of families, who still experience childcare costs that are too high or who in many instances experience a complete lack of availability of childcare places....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning many crèches across the country closed their doors for three days due to frustration with Government policy. As we speak, and as the Taoiseach knows, providers are now protesting at the gates of the Dáil. Of course, the big losers in this situation are thousands of families who will experience significant disruption this week - parents left in the lurch, seeking...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government increased the price of petrol and diesel on 1 September. People can see the consequences of that at the pumps. Incredibly, the Government proposes to increase fuel prices even further, with a double whammy on 11 October and 31 October. Fuel prices, as a consequence, will hit close to €2 per litre. I do not know how the Government expects hard-pressed families that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's rhetoric and his bluff on the issue of housing convinces precisely nobody. The idea that he would rate the Government's performance on housing as a reflection of housing being its number one priority is truly terrifying if that is the Minister's idea of the Government's best shot at sorting out a crisis that has now been with us for many years. The targets are wrong to begin...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I also wish Barry the very best in his tasks and duties. As the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment knows, workers and families continue to struggle with an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and households remain under huge pressure, with massive energy bills, grocery bills and fuel prices increasing once again. At the centre of...