Results 61-80 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: The ordinary people of Ireland will not surrender our neutrality just so Micheál Martin or Simon Harris can get a pat on the head from the high and mighty at the European Commission. The mothers and fathers of Ireland did not raise their sons and daughters to be sent off and die-----

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in imperialist wars of aggression, in conflicts that have nothing to do with this country because, make no mistake, that is where the plan of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to demolish our neutrality leads us. That is where von der Leyen's turbo-charged militarisation leads us. So, with everything we have got, we are going to stand up and defend out neutrality and in doing so, we will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: What will students and their families be asked to pay for college in September? Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? The Minister for higher education last night claimed that he believes in giving straight answers to a straight question, and then delivered a ten-minute speech in which he gaslit students and failed to answer that question at all. We have now had ten days of Government...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is in October.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: No child is safe in Gaza. The Israeli genocide has mercilessly slaughtered children with abandon and the international community has watched on. The commitment made by this State and Government is a very modest one to take 30 children. They should be evacuated with all due haste. According to the medics who will treat these children, not alone have eight children been identified by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, I have been in contact with the Tánaiste and he informed me that there was in fact a necessity-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for a memo to Cabinet. I do not know what the communications are like within government; I am not really interested in that. I am interested in the children-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the need to evacuate them now for the treatment they need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Anois.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not about me; it is about the children in Gaza.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is an immediate need for the Government to intervene to end the delay in evacuating very sick and injured children from Gaza to Ireland for urgent medical treatment. Last year, as the Taoiseach knows, the Government agreed to evacuate 30 of these children. There were two successful evacuations of 12 children in December and May. However, the vital evacuation of the remaining 18...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not at St. Vincent's.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not for those schools.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have given them. I will write to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise again the critical shortage of special needs assistants and the devastating consequences of that in our schools. I will offer two examples from my constituency. Max Ryan is a nine-year-old student at St. Vincent's National School, Glasnevin. He has autism, global development delay, sensory issues, speech and language delay and separation anxiety. When Max entered junior infants,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [33779/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is because of the PPPs the Government has championed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is outrageous.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: When your developer buddies went-----