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Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recalling the motion it adopted unanimously on 10th July, 2008 which: — noted "the interim and final reports of the sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights on the report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin-Monaghan Bombings and the three related Barron Reports, including the...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Thirteen-year-old Liam Dennehy Quinn has rapidly deteriorating scoliosis. Liam has been hospital bound for the past five and a half weeks. His curvature was at 85o in November but has had no spinal review during his five weeks in hospital. Liam has been given a surgery date of 30 May but his mother Pamela says he is deteriorating by the day and running out of time. Liam has to use oxygen...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. For 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...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We mark the 74th anniversary of the signing of the Schuman Declaration, which revolutionised the political, economic and social landscape of Europe. When Ireland joined on 1 January 1973, I was a baby. My colleague here, Deputy Carthy, was not even a twinkle in his mammy's eye. Both of us have grown up in a country that has known nothing other than to be part of what was an economic...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. [20334/24]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: We are now five months into 2024 and the health service still has not published its staffing plan for the year. The Secretary General of the Department of Health confirmed this morning that the moratorium or embargo is still in place and that the strategy is at a political level waiting on a decision from Government. I have lost count of the number of bright, talented young health and...

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 (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and Tipperary - and could have added Cavan, Leitrim, Offaly and Roscommon. These are the official figures. This is an official record of the Government's abysmal failure - the failure of the State to deliver affordable homes to purchase and rent. By the targets the Government set itself, it has failed. It is a big fail. I have never seen housing need so desperate and I happen to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are now four weeks out from the most important local and European Union elections for a generation and housing is the number one talking point at the doors. It is the biggest issue by far for workers and families across the State. After 13 years of Fine Gael in government, the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse. Rip-off rents continue to rise, homelessness has hit record levels...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may well talk about living within budgets. He is hardly a poster boy for that. I quoted the €650 million a year on agency staff. I could also quote the €140 million a year on management and legal consultancy at peak in 2022. Heaven forbid that I would go near the €2.2 billion on his children's hospital that has yet to be delivered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Save the homily on living within budgets for someone else. The facts are these; at University Hospital Limerick, as was confirmed to the Oireachtas committee, every single day, there are patients who are deemed sick enough to require admission who cannot be admitted. That is the reality day-on-day.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: More than 11,000 patients waited on hospital trolleys last month. University Hospital Limerick again had the highest figure of any hospital in the State, closely followed by University Hospital Galway. The trolley crisis is now a year-round emergency. Our hospitals are under enormous and sustained pressure. Yesterday the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, announced that a HSE support...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach now claims that there is clarity with the British Government. He might alert us as to when he received that clarification from the British Prime Minister. Has the British Government clarified that it does in fact have a legal obligation to accept returns? It has acknowledged operational arrangements but it has not gone so far as to acknowledge a legal obligation. Can the...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government 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...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá fáilte romhat, a Edwin. I am not used to seeing you in this setting, but you are very welcome. I am sure we all agree on that. Over the last few days people have listened in horror to the testimony presented at the inquest into the death of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston. Aoife died in University Hospital Limerick on 17 December 2022. The inquest is ongoing and we await its...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The facts as they present on the ground are that the emergency department is not safe. People do not believe the hospital is safe, and that is a major problem. The panels have been established. Additional staff are needed, as are additional hospital beds. We have to start from a position of acceptance. The Taoiseach can quote whatever figures he wishes. We could go into the history...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For young Dubliners in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Stardust Ballroom was the place to be. It was a huge venue that hosted cabarets, concerts and discos at weekends. Such was its popularity that you could get a bus from the quays in the city centre directly to the nightclub in Artane. With three bars, a stage and a large dance floor, it was a wonderland for night-time revellers. At...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: If this is what we are reduced to - the Taoiseach scouring people's websites and playing to the Gallery and television audience at home-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hospitals are under enormous pressure. Chronic overcrowding means constant chaos in emergency departments. We are all painfully aware of the year-round crisis, which sees hundreds of patients suffer the indignity of lying on trolleys. More than 600 people were on trolleys in our hospitals yesterday; the number is 528 today. However, a not so visible but real consequence of overcrowding...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [8774/24]