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

Mary Lou McDonald: As we are waiting, I am sure the Ceann Comhairle would like, on behalf of the House, to extend a welcome to the families from Justice for the Forgotten, who are joining us.

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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his recent engagement with the Spanish Prime Minister, with specific regard to the recognition of a Palestinian state. [20335/24]

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: We made the request and you knocked us back.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: You knocked us back.

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...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: As I go across the country, I meet people who live with the consequences of the Taoiseach's housing policy. Here is what they experience: record rents they struggle to afford, record homelessness which leaves families and children in misery, a collapse in home ownership and an entire generation locked out of any real expectation of ever owning a home. Consequential to that, so many,...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government for 13 years and in that time the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse. It is not an accident. We now have a full-blown housing disaster because the Government has the wrong priorities and the wrong policies. As a result, many workers and families are simply unable to put a secure, affordable roof over their head. A defining feature of Fine Gael...

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...