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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the second week now, I ask that the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, present themselves and make a statement to the House on their handling of the immigration issue, particularly the situation as pertains today on the Grand Canal in Dublin, where there are now 40 tents with unfortunate,...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of war and poverty. We can build a social Europe where the interests of workers, families and communities come first, where the democratic deficit is truly confronted, and where the rights of smaller member states are recognised, protected and strengthened. This is how we enhance the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. The future of Europe must be about real partnership,...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...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 claiming it had led to an increase in the...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...protection in Ireland. This failure has crystallised most sharply around the provision of accommodation. The lack of accommodation for refugees was entirely predictable as the housing system in this State is broken. What we have seen from the Government is a failure to prepare and put in place a coherent, workable plan that meets the scale of the crisis. Far from implementing an...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in its entirety to be part of the same trading bloc and the same Single Market. That is what the people of the North want. That is what the people of the South want. That is why, since the Brexit referendum result became clear, we in Sinn Féin have been unequivocal in stating that Brexit represents the most serious social, economic and political threat to our island in a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...on the conversation with President Trump. We are all familiar with the concerns on this side of the Atlantic about many of the policies and strategies being pursued by the Trump Administration. Immigration has been mentioned and we could speak about the partisan White House approach to Israel. Climate change is also on the long list. I should also say that Sinn Féin, unlike other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The concern specifically around the United States is not just the domestic policies pursued by this Administration but the global reach of the United States, which is unrivalled by the Cubans and the Venezuelans. The Taoiseach would accept that. It is very difficult to know where to start with the Trump Administration. On the one hand, people accept the reality that this man was...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...behalf on all of these matters? A particular focus of the Government, as we have said before here, has been the very real issue of the estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish citizens in the United States. These concerns were voiced yesterday by Ciaran Staunton, the president of the Irish lobby for immigration reform in the US. The new administration's stated desire to tackle so-called...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Since he formally took office as President of the United States, we have had a flavour of the new White House policy under Mr. Donald Trump. Yesterday, he signed executive orders to build a wall along the US border with Mexico and to crack down on cities which shield undocumented immigrants. Late last night, in a flagrant disregard for all international human rights protocols, the President...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...engagement or representation? Although that is concerning, it is secondary to the longer-standing and deeper concern for the undocumented or those who have overstayed various visas in the United States. I know this is a matter on which the House is united in looking for a resolution. However, what I am not clear on, outside of the Taoiseach's visits to the United States, especially on...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to nobody, least of all children. It institutionalises people, damages mental health, denies families privacy and forces a lack of work on them. People living under direct provision are forced by the State to live in inhumane conditions. They have often escaped their country of origin due to persecution, intimidation and violence. They are forced to raise children in cramped conditions,...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for any new Government was always going to be immense, but it was also an incredible opportunity to challenge the fundamental faults in the political system. For the first time in the history of the State, half of the Members elected to the Dáil were first-time Members. There was a brief glimmer of hope things might change and change absolutely for the long term. Fine Gael and...

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...are very difficult for parties on all sides. Will the Taoiseach comment on the Haass process and where he considers it stands now? Did the Taoiseach have any discussion with President Clinton on immigration reform and the issues faced by so many Irish people living in the United States who work there and have made their homes, lives and families there? Immigration is an issue of some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Act and the Employment Equality Act. I raise the subject of justice most particularly because it is one on which the Information Commissioner has spoken previously. In particular, in respect of immigration, and all matters pertaining to refugees and their status in the State, there is certainly a common conception, not least among refugees, that there is a veil of secrecy and that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 582 of Tuesday 19 January 2013, if the eight persons purporting to be Syrian nationals provided documentation to support this claim to Immigration Officers and if this documentation was deemed inauthentic; if any of the eight persons concerned applied for asylum in another EU member state prior to arriving here; and the basis...