Results 41-60 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Raising rents.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: They will make matters worse.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister said a lot there but did not answer the question. He is the Minister for public expenditure and this is a straightforward question. Will the cost be €2,000 or €3,000? On the basis of what he is saying and according to the logic of his presentation, I assume the cost will be €3,000. The Minister, Deputy Lawless, has announced an increase in student fees to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is going to hike up the cost of their rent-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and is now going to hike up their fees,-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----but the Minister does not even have the decency to be clear about it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Minister to confirm-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----if students will pay €2,000 or €3,000.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are no increases in the North.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will it be €2,000 or €3,000?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus, surely the Minister can answer a question as basic as that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mother of God.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister does not know the answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is most unhelpful to families and students.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is very unhelpful.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Before I begin, I want to say how very sorry I am to hear of the death of Brother Kevin Crowley. I offer condolences to everybody who loved him. Brother Kevin's work at the Capuchin Day Centre is the stuff of legend. He really was a champion for the poor and for everyone who fell on hard times, without judgment and without exception. He lived for others and he absolutely changed lives....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin, unveiled the Government's intention to convert the GPO for the purposes of retail units and office accommodation. This is the Government's shameful plan for the most iconic site of Ireland's struggle for freedom. This is the building outside which Pádraig Pearse in Easter 1916 read aloud the Proclamation of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Domestic violence is at epidemic levels. Women's Aid has published its annual report and it makes for very grim reading. Last year, it received the highest number of domestic abuse complaints in its 50-year history. All forms of abuse against women have increased. Physical abuse is up 22%, sexual abuse by 30%, emotional abuse up 15% and economic abuse up 5%. One third of women who...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What message does this send to women fighting to survive? After 15 years of strategy, the Government is still talking about basic training initiatives for front-line responders. Where is the urgency? None of this is good enough. Women faced with violence and abuse deserve far more. Léiríonn tuarascáil scannalach de chuid Women's Aid inniu go bhfuil eipidéim ag dul...