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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...funds. This puts up in lights that Fine Gael is never going to solve the housing crisis. The simple truth is it is not capable of it. Billions of taxpayers' money is spent on expensive leasing arrangements instead of ambitious investment to deliver public homes on public lands. We know 9,000 of these leasing deals have been made. Can the Taoiseach tell us today how many more are...

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 (20 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...say and to allow the election of a new Government. The very idea that the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party would gather in conclave to reshuffle the office of An Taoiseach – the highest office in the land – without the people having their say is unthinkable. We need a new government that will deliver the change that workers, families and communities so badly want; a government...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...These illegal, violent settlers who attack and displace Palestinians are armed, supported and enabled by Israel. It is state policy. They are part of Israel’s colonial strategy to annex Palestinian lands. The accountable party is the State of Israel, which continues to act with impunity. Despite all of the Tánaiste's rhetoric to the contrary, the motion demonstrates no...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Now, this trend of delay is affecting payments under the agri-environmental scheme known as ACRES. Many farmers have been told the very best they can hope for is for these payments to land from February 2024. Farmers were actively encouraged by the Government to undertake work and incur expense under this scheme. Now, their bills are mounting up and they are being left high and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: By harnessing support for an all-island approach to economic, social, environmental and well-being challenges, NESC can be an important and practical mechanism to encourage everyone on the island to work together. Through ambitious collaboration, we can be more than the sum of our parts. Climate change and protecting biodiversity are urgent problems and we need to deal with them on an...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...laying waste to Palestinian life in Gaza with the imprimatur of some of the world's most powerful entities. For generations, the people of Palestine have endured this daily brutalisation. Their lands have been occupied and annexed, their people displaced, their homes and school bulldozed to the ground, their sons and daughters executed and incarcerated, and their lives ravaged by...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The gloves need to come off now when it comes to tackling and ending the housing crisis, but once again this Government has failed to land a punch. In this budget, the Government has confirmed beyond doubt that Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-led Governments are bad for the health of ordinary workers and families. They certainly threw the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly,...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...daily. Palestinian self-determination is ruthlessly suppressed, and for decades the Israeli state has breached international law through collective punishment, annexation, the confiscation of lands and the imposition of an apartheid regime. All the while the international community has, at best, looked the other way and, at worst, has facilitated Israel's breaches of international law,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works is responsible for land in County Dublin (details supplied). [43800/23]

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...information and particularly in an emergency, rally hard to welcome, support, understand and help find solutions. I am alarmed that as basic a requirement as this has not yet, it seems, fully landed with the Government. The Government needs to talk to people. The Minister and I had this conversation six or seven months ago when there was a problem in East Wall. It is a diverse...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...destroyed. Beleaguered, besieged and impoverished, Palestinians struggle for their very survival against an onslaught that is relentless. Annexation and the illegal settling of Palestinian lands is at the very centre of this travesty. The annexation of Palestinian land is part of a strategy to make it impossible for Palestinians to maintain a viable homeland. This must be called out...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...international law, there can be no double standards. Europe must be to the fore in confronting Israel's apartheid against the Palestinian people. Europe can no longer stand idly by as Palestinian lands are forcibly annexed and illegally settled, as Palestinian homes are demolished and the schools of Palestinian children bulldozed to dust. Together, we must work for an end to this brutal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., but Government overreliance on the private sector is not the answer. The answer to the housing crisis - the game-changing answer - is for the State to intervene directly to build thousands of homes on public land. What we need is for the Government to initiate a massive scaling up of affordable and social housing; what we get is a Government scrambling about, clutching at straws and...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...his wife, a civil servant in the Department of Social Protection, at an event in advance of the 2011 general election. He was a family man. He was running a successful electrical business working with some of the largest companies in the land. Indeed, he featured in the media about the success of his business. He was a north inner-city kid who had worked really hard and who had done...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and do everything to build a decent life. They are being robbed of the roof over their heads, not through any fault of their own but by way of a cruel Government decision. Eviction notices are landing every day and the Government has no plan, no safety net and no intention other than to dig in. Cá bhfuil daoine ceaptha dul? Chuireamar an cheist sin ar an Taoiseach, ar an...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the housing assistance payment, HAP. Instead of building housing, Ministers poured billions into the private rental market. By the way, it was always the Governments' responsibility, not the responsibility of small landlords, to sort out housing. Now, as the private rental market shrinks, many of those families are left with nowhere to go. The decision by Michael Noonan in 2013 to roll...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...a decade and this Government has been in office for three years yet only now a report comes to Cabinet stating what everybody already knew, which is that thousands of homes could be built on public land. For years, we have said that building public homes on public land is the answer to the housing crisis. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil turned a deaf ear every time. They did not want to...

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: One year ago, Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a brutal and criminal war on its peaceful neighbour, Ukraine. In doing so, he unleashed the largest land conflict and the greatest displacement of people in Europe for nearly 80 years. Russia's attack on and bombardment of the Ukrainian people is an attack on sovereignty, on peace and on the right of a nation to be free. It is a vicious and...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...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 are to have any hope of breaking this cycle in the Middle East or ending the endless war of attrition and the endless targeting of...