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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hospitals are under enormous pressure. Chronic overcrowding means constant chaos in emergency departments. We are all painfully aware of the year-round crisis, which sees hundreds of patients suffer the indignity of lying on trolleys. More than 600 people were on trolleys in our hospitals yesterday; the number is 528 today. However, a not so visible but real consequence of overcrowding...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [8774/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [13984/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [9141/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has regularly held up as an achievement during his time as Minister for higher education the area of apprenticeships. We all agree that they are essential. I wish to raise with him an issue, however, because, despite all his rhetoric, our craft apprenticeship system is in fact in crisis. The number of craft apprentices waiting to undertake their off-the-job training has risen...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----the parents want to know that now he is Taoiseach, he will finally honour a promise he made many years ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach says that nobody wants to see children in agony and pain, but that is exactly what we see. I spoke last night to one mother whose child is now no longer a child. They are now 19 and inoperable. Why are they inoperable? They are inoperable because they waited and waited and waited. The mother said directly that they followed all the right protocols and all the care paths -...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Scoliosis is a debilitating and painful condition for a person's spine twists and curves. It can cause the ribcage to press against the lungs and internal organs making it increasingly difficult to breathe. It is especially tough on young children. Where children do not get the surgeries they need on time, the consequences are devastating. The longer they wait, the more complex the...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, three phone calls. It is a disgrace.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of clarification, is the Government's position that the Taoiseach is not here present at his work with us because he had to make three phone calls? Can I just clarify that? The Chief Whip enunciated three people-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Three or four phone calls.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not acceptable.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I just ask, in that spirit, whatever about the Business Committee, and there is clearly a problem that needs to be addressed, I am not raising the issue of the Business Committee. I want to know where the Taoiseach is. Yesterday, he said he would be getting straight to work, that he would be moving mountains, and there was no challenge too great. We are here today, we have shown up to...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. Yesterday, the last words spoken by the Taoiseach were "let us get to work". Those were his direct words. We come today on his first day on the job and he is a no-show. He is as láthair. We have a housing crisis. We have today 570 people on hospital trolleys across the State and we had 600 yesterday. We have families struggling just to get by, counting every...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For ordinary people, I want to say this. I know it is hard but hang on and do not give up. Hold tightly to your hopes for a better future.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hold tightly to your hopes for yourself, for your family and for Ireland and then, when a general election is called, vote for hope, vote for change and vote out this failed Government.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the name on the Taoiseach's office door changed for the third time in four years, but nothing has really changed for workers and families. How could it? This Government was formed to block the change that people voted for in the most recent general election. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party clubbed together to ensure that the hopeful votes of so many for something new...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has the backs of the rack-renting corporate landlords, the financial speculators and those at the top. That is the Fine Gael way and today it proposes more of the same. Today is proof positive that we need change like never before. We need a new direction. We need a new Government that will put workers, families and communities first, a new Government with the determination to...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is indeed a great country. This great country of our faces real challenges and incredible opportunities. The decisions we take now directly affect our people today and for the future. I believe passionately that our prospects can be so very bright. When all is said and done, politics is about choices. Good politics is about making the right choices. Today, for the third time in...