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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did you hear the stories I shared with you?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus. Happy Christmas, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Minister could come out and debate, it would solve that for you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I rise for the last time this year. I wish everybody a happy Christmas. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for all his work. I thank the staff here in the Oireachtas who I am sure will be relieved to see the back of us for just a short while. Life in Ireland is hard for renters. Research published this morning by the Residential Tenancies Board cites affordability and insecurity of tenure among...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council. [55163/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The First Minister-elect of Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill, wrote to the Secretary of State, Chris Heaton-Harris, last Friday emphasising the gravity of the current stalemate in the North and the imperative for urgent action. The Taoiseach will be aware that all-party talks commenced yesterday. The public administration in Belfast is facing massive financial challenges including the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Staying on the issue of health, since the Government was formed, we have seen a doubling of child and adolescent mental health services waiting lists. In 2020, 1,115 children were waiting for first-time appointments. This year, that figure has risen to 4,421. In the area where I live, CHO 9, children are waiting more than 200 days for treatment for suicidal ideation and more than 100 days...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services will next meet. [55162/23]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It has not been a good year for delays to a range of key farm payments. Farmers have already experienced serious delays to BISS payments and to payments under the ANC and eco-schemes. Thousands of these payments are still outstanding. 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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Taoiseach that the welcome displayed to people from Ukraine has marked us very well. I have no doubt that will continue. People unquestionably want to do the right thing and want us collectively to do the right thing in response to what the Taoiseach correctly described as the biggest movement of people since the Second World War. The Taoiseach also correctly noted that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: I begin by saying hello to Lorcan and Harry and their mum Karen Keely. They are in the Visitors' Gallery and are from Ratoath in the royal county of Meath. They are very welcome. I understand that the Government has signed off on changes to supports for Ukrainian people. It has been reported that welfare payments are to be brought down in line with payments made to other international...

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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all witnessing the absolute savagery and depravity of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, on civilians, women, children and men. Bear in mind that the majority of Gazans are a refugee population. They have been left in the most dire and desperate circumstances as the world watches on. Do not miss the fact that, in the West Bank also, settler violence has spiked. Israel acts with utter...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [52330/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The committee met on the 27th, the Taoiseach told us. That would have been three days after the publication of the homeless figures which made for very grim reading. Another record was set, with 13,179 people homeless, and almost 4,000 of those children. Can the Taoiseach tell us what consideration of homelessness and those figures was given at the meeting on 27 November and what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53575/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was announced yesterday that on New Year's Day, the Government will introduce a road toll increase, the second in six months. The Government started kite-flying about this during the summer. It is madness that the Government would go ahead with this increase. People rely on the roads to get to work, to bring kids to school and to attend medical appointments in different parts of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: So is that a "Yes" or a "No"?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: They were not hard left.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.