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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will next meet. [20325/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Focus Ireland's Best Interest of the Child campaign is being launched today, as the Taoiseach knows. Legislation published by the charity places an obligation on local authorities to take the best interests of the child into account when working with families who present as homeless. As the charity has highlighted, despite all the evidence of the harm that homelessness does to children,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to record my sadness at hearing of the passing of former Deputy Derek Keating. I did not realise he had died. I share our sympathies. I want to return to the story of Micheline Walsh, a 78-year-old woman. The Taoiseach described the situation in which she and her husband find themselves as very sad. It is indeed very sad. The situation is also unacceptable and, in fact, it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the additional support that will be coming? Unite the Union research published last week reflects that wages have in real terms fallen by approximately €76 per week. Leaving that aside, as already stated, 160,399 households are in arrears on their gas bills and almost 200,000 are in arrears on electricity bills. When I put the question to the Taoiseach and asked him what he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Workers and families continue to be fleeced by a cost-of-living crisis that is out of control. People’s finances are being pushed to the very bring. They are being hammered by sky-high energy bills, soaring food bills, runaway rents, mortgage interest rate hikes and a cost-of-living crisis that is hitting them from all sides. Almost a quarter of household gas customers found...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the HIV and AIDS national monument will be installed in the People's Park. [21069/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of the new special school in Dublin 7. [21085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special school in Dublin 7 will open; and when parents can enrol their children. [21086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Programme for Government commitment to introduce domestic homicide reviews legislation can be delivered as he has yet to publish the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews submitted to him in the summer of 2022; and if he remains committed to the zero-tolerance policy as set out in the Third Strategy on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1099 of 21 March 2023, when he will introduce the second stage of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022; and the interim measures he will take to ensure that the State is meeting its international legal obligations to children as it has still not ratified...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Energy Prices (4 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams that are available for a school (details supplied) to assist with the cost of rising energy costs for the school. [20837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (4 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Youth Homeless Strategy 2023-2025 commitments to offer LGBTI+ Youth Homelessness Training Workshops for service providers to ensure a better understanding of LGBTI+ issues and the various forms of discrimination; and to develop privacy and safety strategies for young LGBTI+ people using...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (4 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the progress to date on the development of a legal ban on the practice of conversion therapy; when he expects legislation to be ready for introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20974/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [19137/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (3 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the shared island unit of his Department. [20296/23]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: You shame your office.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: You shame your office.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: You are shameful, Leo.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: We are well aware of that.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: If I can say for the record, the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Murphy was pretty disgraceful. Homeowners are bracing themselves for tomorrow when the European Central Bank, ECB, will sign off its seventh mortgage interest rate hike since July of last year. This means that tens of thousands of workers and families will pay hundreds of euro extra per month compared with last year. People...