Results 1-20 of 9,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald in 'Dáil debates'
- 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]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [17376/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [17375/24]
- 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: Is that the Taoiseach's answer to my question? Jesus.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are not, actually.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed.
- 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: I mentioned a number of counties - Louth, Mayo, Sligo 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...
- 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 - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [17374/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The British Government's legacy Act is a cynical and callous attempt to block victims and families from ever getting justice through the courts and to hide the role of British state forces and their agencies in the conflict. Today, that Act takes effect, to their very great shame. I have raised this issue many times previously. I accept that the Government has lodged an interstate case...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach.
- 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: The hospital does not have enough beds or the required level of staff. The Taoiseach quoted a figure of 2,268 additional posts. He knows full well that in previous years, that has been as high as 7,000. The system is stripped bare. I have set out the facts for him. These are facts from people on the front line with regard to dental services, mental health capacity, and all across the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You do not let young women die on trolleys or lying across chairs. That is what you do not do.