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Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will be brief. No reform programme on earth will be of any value when there is such low morale in the ranks of An Garda Síochána and such a crisis in public confidence. That is the legacy of Fine Gael. Thirteen years on, people the length and breadth of this State do not feel safe. With the inner city, I do not have time. I could write books on it. There has been an abject...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: You took our troops from the Golan Heights. This is fiction.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not to wreck Ireland's neutrality.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: He has no mandate for it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: None of us has a mandate to dismantle Irish neutrality.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is precisely what the Taoiseach is seeking to do.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a complete red herring.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is factually inaccurate-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is factually inaccurate and shocking that the Taoiseach could be so inaccurate or ill-informed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is shocking, utterly shocking.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government committed the Government to upholding Ireland's triple lock neutrality protection. However, as was confirmed this morning, the Tánaiste sought and received the approval of the Cabinet to bring forward legislation to scrap the triple lock by removing the requirement for the UN mandate. In giving the Tánaiste this green light, the Government has started...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: But not legal obligations.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not an answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach now claims that there is clarity with the British Government. He might alert us as to when he received that clarification from the British Prime Minister. Has the British Government clarified that it does in fact have a legal obligation to accept returns? It has acknowledged operational arrangements but it has not gone so far as to acknowledge a legal obligation. Can the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has displayed incredible incompetence in recent days in dealing with migration and returns to Britain. The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, claimed at the justice committee that 80% of those applying for asylum in this State are coming from Britain via the North. At the weekend, the Tánaiste then carelessly jumped in two feet first, pointing to Britain's Rwanda deal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The hospital is unsafe. The Taoiseach should acknowledge that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not in question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá fáilte romhat, a Edwin. I am not used to seeing you in this setting, but you are very welcome. I am sure we all agree on that. Over the last few days people have listened in horror to the testimony presented at the inquest into the death of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston. Aoife died in University Hospital Limerick on 17 December 2022. The inquest is ongoing and we await its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach says he is listening, but clearly he is not. If everything were as rosy as he portrays, how is it that University Hospital Limerick consistently has the highest trolley count? How is it that front-line staff and their unions consistently have said they do not have the staff to deal with the level of demand? This is a hospital that is enduring surge every single day. The...