Results 141-160 of 758 for long speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...land, to end its occupation and to conform with the law. Today marks the most explicit and the most united call from this Parliament against annexation and against the illegal Israeli occupation. Long and bitter experience, of course, tells us that our calls may well land on deaf ears. Therefore, we call also on the international community, on the European family of nations and, most...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...even those low expectations. It has done the bare minimum. The proposal to pitch stamp duty at 10% is too low. These wealthy investment funds will easily absorb that additional cost across their long-term investments. Stamp duty is the only tax measure the Government has touched. Some of these funds are the largest residential landlords in the State, yet they do not pay a cent on...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...here if it was not for the families. Everything they went through was summed up in the words of Alice Harper whose father Danny Teggart was shot 14 times during the massacre. She said: We’ve waited a long time, 50 years is a long time to wait. We always knew they were innocent, but now it has been proven, and for what our family has been through, not just our family but all the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...whole communities to investment funds not just in Dublin city but in Poolbeg, Cherrywood, Clonburris, Cork city and beyond because this would consign an entire generation to paying extortionate rip-off rents long into the future, unable to buy their own homes as these funds increase their profits. Stamp duty needs to be increased. The Government needs to understand that these funds will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the almost glib attitude that he adopts, and instead work for the kind of fundamental transformation we need. I am urging him to do this because in the absence of that transformation we will be in this housing crisis for a very long time and that is simply not tolerable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...regard. We need the Government to outline how we will use this privileged position on the UN Security Council to ensure that action is taken and that the international community, which for too long has been asleep, negligent and laissez-fairein respect of Palestine, finally acts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The welcome mat was laid out for these investment funds long before Covid-19 was ever heard of. The Taoiseach should not try to hide behind the pandemic as an excuse for his evident failures. The evidence of the Government's failures are everywhere to be seen. The Taoiseach recognises that we are in a crisis and it is about supply. Supply needs to be met by building public housing on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not looking for a long-winded examination of this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Taoiseach is being cautious and careful with the reopening. I ask him to be equally cautious and careful with these families and to clarify that the supports they rely on will not be cut or phased out as long as there is a public health emergency.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...reductions of any sort come July. We are coming into the month of May at the weekend. In a spirit of fairness for workers and their families, it is only fair that they have clarity that for as long as they cannot go to work and certain businesses cannot reopen. On foot of the public health emergency and in line with public health advice, those workers, businesses and families should...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...over. It is very encouraging that, despite everything people have been through in the past year, they still have that sense of hope and that sense of appetite for a better and fairer Ireland. Long before the Covid emergency, people faced very many profound crises because of bad politics and bad government. Many of those crises deepened during the pandemic but the one that really...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Government seems happy to hand out to [its] buddies. These are the words and experiences of family carers who are among the very best and most decent people in our society and yet for far too long they have been abandoned by the State and certainly forgotten during this pandemic. It has been a very difficult year for everyone but now is the moment to turn the page on how family carers...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the issue of provision of abortion services, it needs to be remembered that unionism can no longer be allowed to exercise a veto in the provision of these services for women yet that is what is happening. There has been a blockage. There is an active campaign by the DUP and others to prevent the commissioning of services that are necessary and to which women are entitled. Everybody from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We again find ourselves at a crossroads in our long fight with Covid-19. After three months of living under level 5 restrictions - our third lockdown of this pandemic - people are understandably fed up and many of them are angry and frustrated. Thousands have not seen a day's work in a year. Many have not seen family or friends in months and small businesses are either closing or...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...reality of the dereliction and grime and, as one Deputy described it, it being used as an outdoor lavatory from time to time. Notwithstanding that, it is a place at the very heart of our country's long struggle for independence and a republic. It is hallowed ground. Its laneways are the laneways of history. When one walks its streets, one walks in the footsteps of the brave men and...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to work with the rest of us to ensure this then becomes law on the Statute Book without further delay. Anything short of this will simply mean more suffering for those who have suffered too much for too long all over again. Every important journey begins with a single step. The first single step for those who have been so wronged is to allow access to birth certificates for every adopted...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...thought she was born. These revelations rocked Anne to her very core. She said there was loss everywhere. There was something about not knowing this. She is 65 years of age. She said, "It's too long. I wasn’t who I thought I was, but I don’t know who I am." All adopted people are entitled to know who they are. The State needs to end the discrimination against all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the way in which visitation guidelines can be updated and reviewed to benefit residents' health and well-being following the successful roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine in nursing homes and long-term care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 986. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of the HPSC guidelines regarding visits to nursing homes and long-term care facilities has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12031/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 984. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out across nursing homes and long-term care facilities in an area (details supplied); the number of residents who have received their first dose of the vaccine in these facilities; the number who have received their second dose of the vaccine in these facilities; and the number who have not yet received a vaccine....