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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, when the Taoiseach was challenged about the tent city that had grown up on Mount Street, he said the law of the land must be applied and that this would not be repeated. Yet, here we are, and it has been repeated, this time along the Grand Canal where there are now some 100 tents. It is an outrage that any human being would be living in a tent on the side of the street or on a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...has displayed incredible incompetence in recent days in dealing with migration and returns to Britain. The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, claimed at the justice committee that 80% of those applying for asylum in this State are coming from Britain via the North. At the weekend, the Tánaiste then carelessly jumped in two feet first, pointing to Britain's Rwanda deal and...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to present the conclusion of this assessment to Dáil Éireann at the earliest possible opportunity;”; and (g) To insert the following after "settlements that are illegal under international law": “further calls on the Government to utilise all diplomatic, economic and legislative mechanisms available to apply sanctions against Israel until such time as offensive...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I very much welcome the Taoiseach's confirmation of the fact that aid will continue to the Palestinian people and his insistence, quite correctly, that the rule of law be applied equally, without fear or favour, that the Israeli state is not exempt from the rules that apply to all others, and that the Palestinian people have rights that are inalienable and that must be vindicated, not just...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...violence leave pay". The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, has indicated he is considering pay parity with sick pay as against full pay. Applying a reduced pay rate in this instance is just wrong. Women's Aid strongly believes domestic violence leave should instead be paid in full at a person's normal rate of pay, and I agree with that....

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of wider world order and commitment to the rule of law, multilateralism and a safe and secure world, Israel needs to be called out. The time for equivocating is over and the exceptionalism being applied to Israel has to stop. I put it to the Tánaiste, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and to his colleagues in government, that Ireland now needs to step up. We need to step up if we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...open for applications until some time next year. Will he explain this delay and tell us why this matter cannot be expedited? Does the scheme provide for 100% redress for all applicants and will it be applied retrospectively? How far back will it go and will it apply to apartments, duplexes and houses impacted by structural defects? Will the Government make funding available for interim...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...planning application. Tens of thousands of people were not able to build a one-off home because, unlike Deputy English, they were honest in filling out their forms. However, he believed those rules did not apply to him. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is embroiled in controversy for flouting election donation rules. There has been a concerted attempt by the Minister to trivialise the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...attention has been drawn to the fact that sub-clause 7.2.2 of the 2021 IPHA Framework Agreement which requires off-patent brands to 40% of the ex-factory price of that medicine is not consistently applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2330/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that persons applying for social housing or a social housing transfer due to a disability or medical grounds must provide medical references from two separate healthcare professionals when completing the HMD form 1; if he is aware that persons applying for other State supports due to disability or medical grounds...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The review states: "In practice, the €500,000 pay cap applies to the few within the banks that hold the most senior management positions, such as the CEO and other senior executives". The Taoiseach is proposing to remove that cap so do not create an alibi or hide behind ordinary bank clerks----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Therefore, this is clearly a flawed approach. Households need a Government response that matches the scale of the crisis. I believe the Government must take action to cut electricity prices to pre-crisis levels and apply a cap to freeze them at that level until the end of February of next year. The benefit of this measure is twofold. First, it ensures that electricity bills are more...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...these funds and to give ordinary home buyers a chance, the Government must ramp up stamp duty to deter these funds, as well as end the tax advantages they enjoy. Crucially, the Government needs to apply these measures to apartments as well as houses because apartments are family homes too.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...simply cannot wait until October. We need actions immediately to get the cost of fuel down and, therefore, I ask the Taoiseach to do two things. First, I ask the Taoiseach to reduce the excise duty applied to petrol and diesel by the maximum level, which would bring prices of petrol down by 13 cent and those of diesel by 9 cent. That, alone, will not be enough. I ask that the Taoiseach...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Appointments (5 Apr 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...when filling the forthcoming vacancy in the position of Secretary General to the Government and Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach; and if not, the reason the procedures applied to the recruitment of the most senior positions in the civil service at Assistant Secretary level and upwards will not be applied to this appointment. [17225/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Commission to remove VAT from household energy bills, and for months that proposal has been dismissed. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach has now changed position and that he is now, finally, engaging with the Commission to allow for a reduction or a removal in the level of VAT applied to fuels, just as we have been calling for. The conclusions published after the meeting of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The British Government is pushing forward with the requirement for EU citizens who are not Irish or British to apply for travel clearance if they want to travel North to South or vice versa. This is a disgraceful situation. It undermines the Good Friday Agreement and the common travel area. It creates significant restrictions on freedom across our island. I do not know whether the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to this Russian aggression. The Government has resisted any calls for the expulsion of the Russian ambassador from Dublin. It indicated some time back that it would do something else by way of applying greater diplomatic pressure. As we speak, I am unclear as to what those actions were or might be. We are clear, however, that Russia's diplomatic footprint must be challenged and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if the ethical standards for healthcare of an organisation (details supplied) are currently or will be applied or adhered to in any current or future maternity hospital. [12238/22]