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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tens of thousands of people are now refusing to pay the TV licence. The licence, as the Minister knows, is €160 and people are voting with their feet in huge numbers. Is it any wonder? People are understandably angry. They feel they are being taken for a ride. The recent financial scandals at RTÉ, the latest chapter of which is the debacle of Toy Show The Musical, have rocked...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have heard some bluster in my time but that really was a bravura performance of absolute rubbish - sound and fury, signifying nothing. My God, it is remarkable how one person can talk so much and say so very little in response to a very straightforward question. Is the Government for the TV licence or not? I have stated our position, which is in line with the expert view of an expert...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Humanity itself is on the line in Gaza. With every Palestinian killed in Israel's genocidal war, with every innocent Gaza child whose beautiful life is horrifically extinguished, with every family wiped out, home destroyed and hospital decimated, and with every refugee camp bombed, the humanity of the world slips further into the darkness. Ireland must now confront that darkness. Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [4016/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on community-led energy generation; and the measures the Government has in place to support energy communities. [52582/23]

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 1: A. To insert the following after "terms of reference and the type of inquiry;": "acknowledging that were it not for the work of the Women of Honour group, the Canary Movement and others, these matters may never have been brought to light;"; B. in paragraph G. to delete the words "in so far as (vii) below is concerned,"; C. to insert the following after "in...

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: This can either be the beginning of the end or simply the beginning of a series of inquiries that will see survivors re-traumatised time and again in pursuit of the justice they have deserved for years or even, in the worst-case scenario, for decades. The process of sampling must be excluded from the terms of reference. It would be cruel for the voice of any survivor to be excluded on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [56545/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The cost of doing business in Ireland makes these worrying times for workers and for businesses, which, as the Taoiseach knows, have been vocal on this issue. Corporate insolvency has reached its highest level in five years, with a 25% rise in 2023. Across the country, towns and villages see long-standing businesses, particularly restaurants and pubs, are closing their doors. Jobs are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the situation in our emergency departments. As the Taoiseach knows, hospitals have not been able to sustain the figures that we saw over the Christmas break. They have really struggled. They have cut activity in hospitals to try to manage the situation, but we know that this could not last forever. This morning, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation reported 654...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I quoted them to you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the scandal of a wealthy vulture fund buying up 46 of 54 homes at Belcamp Manor in north Dublin. These were homes that should have been available to workers and families to buy, to live in and to call home. Instead, the fund will rent them out for more than €3,000 a month. It is scandalous. Clearly, the Government's measures to stop the funds...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For clarity, I was referring to rental income. Not a red cent is paid on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The level at which these rents stand should be borne in mind. Our motion this evening calls for a rate of at least 17%. We are simply reiterating what we told the Government at the time, that anything less than 17% would fail to be an adequate disincentive to clip the wings of the vulture funds. We are repeating that. I see no reason for the Taoiseach not to support the motion if he is,...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We know the steps that must be followed to initiate a case in the Hague to establish jurisdiction and the grounds for dispute. The Tánaiste has seen the endless footage of Israel's atrocities in Gaza. He has heard reams of heart-wrenching testimony from doctors and international aid workers on the ground. In the midst of undeniable genocidal actions, these steps should be urgently...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 4: (a) To insert the following after "condemns the ongoing bombardment of Gaza": “by Israel and reiterates the call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire”; (b) To insert the following after "and the hearings last week involving the parties to this case”: “; and commends South Africa for its action in this regard: determining that it is...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For more than 100 days, the people of Gaza have endured a humanitarian horror of unimaginable scale, a genocide broadcast to the world in real time and inflicted upon an impoverished refugee population by the apartheid Israeli regime that is hell-bent on erasing the Palestinian nation from the face of the earth. This is not conjecture. The Israeli Government has not attempted to hide its...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: An immediate and full ceasefire is what is needed. That is the call the Government should make, and that call should be contained in the motion.