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

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Through our history, we understand what it means to be forced in fear and heartbreak from our beloved homeland. We know the loneliness of exile and the humiliation of discrimination - "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish". We also know what it takes to build a new life in faraway places. This is a legacy that has formed a deep-rooted humanity, compassion and genuine desire to help those who...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...policies that created this mess in the first place and feathered the nests of well-got developers, wealthy investors and big landlords at the expense of ordinary people in housing need. The dogs on the street know and can see that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has failed abysmally.

Violence Against Women: Statements (19 Jan 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...demonstrably a male problem - a problem that men must be central to solving. Men must acknowledge the problem and play their part in changing things, and that means speaking out against the systemic culture of misogyny and sexism that has dogged women for generations. It means becoming allies of women in creating real change and raising all of our sons to be better and to view and treat...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...I have met, every month is a struggle as they deliver services to hundreds of thousands of citizens, many of whom are very vulnerable. Inadequate infrastructure, insufficient funds for staff and a dogged refusal of Departments and State agencies to provide multi-annual funding are universal challenges. I have a particular concern for family carers, in terms of the inadequacy of State...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...even the Taoiseach would accept that this is at best incompetence on the part of his Minister and at worst an indication of what is to come in terms of housing policy from his Government. The dogs in the street know that tens of thousands of renters work in sectors of the economy that will not return to full employment this year. Some have yet to return to work at all due to public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...families off housing lists and we need affordable rental homes. That is not what we are getting. The plan for the site, as concocted by the parties involved in Dublin Agreement 2019 to 2024, is a dog's dinner. It is a stark example of everything that is wrong with housing policy in the State and it simply will not deliver in the context of meeting people's needs. These proposed homes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...what affordability means and whose plan brought forward no affordable purchase homes, and Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party, the Green Party and the Social Democrats, who cobbled together, mar dhea, a dog's dinner of a so-called deal just to get the proposal through the council. They misled Dublin City Council, they misled the general public and, most damningly, they misled the community...

Dublin (North Inner City) Development Authority Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the social and economic challenges of the inner city. In that time, no bright light was shone on the intergenerational poverty, unemployment and blockages to education experienced daily. There was no dogged ongoing commitment to radically changing the outcomes for children and their families. Let us imagine the positive, life-changing interventions that could have been delivered for...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...has raised the specific issue of illegal adoption with successive Ministers, with the joint Oireachtas committee and with the Adoption Authority of Ireland. In fact, the Adoption Rights Alliance, in dogged pursuit of answers and action, issued a paper which gave prominence to illegal adoption to each Minister at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs since 2011 and yet no...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is extraordinary. It is an extraordinarily muddled, long-winded, awkward, crazy account of how one would go about one's business, as an organisation or as an auditor. That is the dog ate my homework type of excuse. The witness is seeking information, and he is not seeking it without due cause-----

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and possibly insurmountable barrier to achieving the goals the Minister outlined of reform and change. The simple fact is that we bring this motion because we believe it to be in the best interests of An Garda Síochána that there is change and accountability at the very top. As has been said previously by the dogs on the street, Nóirín O'Sullivan must be relieved from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: General Scheme of a Public Sector Standards Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The issue of connectedness is a problem in the Irish system. Judge Alan Mahon recognised it, the dogs on the street know it, the old school tie, where one lives and with whom one associates, the issue of conflicts of interest - not least in recent controversies - is writ large, and there is the use of insider information, which term I use softly not necessarily in its commercial sense. How...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: In its original incarnation the Environmental (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 dealt with matters including dog breeding, dog licences and Killarney National Park. The Government will need a flexible interpretation of the law if it wants to explain why this Bill can be used as a vehicle to force landlords to inform Irish Water who is renting their properties, make it compulsory that...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: She avoided that question like the plague. These issues have been stored until now, so that they could be included in legislation dealing with dog breeding, dog licences and Killarney National Park. 1 o’clock This is all in an effort to railroad this legislation through just before the summer in the vain hope that they will get away with it because people will be distracted, will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who suffers from epilepsy and requires a guide dog. [13198/15]

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;.This is an issue I have raised with the Minister. It proposes to exclude an individual's principal private residence in respect of lobbying activities. We have had a discussion on this, but I am a bit like a dog with a bone on this particular issue, not least because we have had such a history of corrupt and corrupting actions in respect of planning in this jurisdiction. We are all...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..." that is necessary if the Garda Síochána is to operate. However, he must understand that the authority of the Garda has been damaged. More to the point, the authority and credibility of the Minister, Deputy Shatter, is now set at zero. The dogs on the street know that. I fail to see how that is not recognised by those on the Labour Party and Fine Gael benches as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Conlan is clearly a very experienced and accomplished person in his field. His CV is testimony to that. But what I hear from him is akin to “The dog ate me ecker” in response to reasonable questions that are being asked of him. I do not accept for a second that a person of Mr. Conlan’s experience and competence who is conversant with the issues at hand just...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...that any Government would introduce a tax on the family home in the aftermath of a huge property bubble which, as we all know, burst and left hardship in its wake. The Labour Party's and Fine Gael's dogged refusal even to include an ability-to-pay clause in the legislation is truly astonishing. They tell us that they know people are suffering and that they are all about reform and all...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...hope that the Minister lives up to his commitment to continue to engage with the Alliance of Retired Public Servants and that he extends this necessary, minimal courtesy to other representative organisations. However, his dogged refusal to address the small number of gold-plated pensions still being paid out to former taoisigh, Ministers and officeholders is a matter of immense...