Mary Lou McDonald

When?

When?

What the people want most today-----

You are a disgrace.

Not agreed.

The Government's failure to act to assist families, workers and motorists as fuel prices skyrocket is completely untenable, unacceptable and unsustainable. We need to have accountability for its inaction as a do-nothing Government. More to the point, we need to hear concretely when and how the Government eventually proposes to act. We need statements and questions and answers on the most pressing …

Last week, I, along with my colleagues Deputies Pearse Doherty and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, met the families of those who lost their lives or were injured in the Creeslough tragedy. They have two requests of the Government. First, that it establish a public inquiry into this tragedy and, second, that the Minister for justice meet with them. They have questions that are not related to the criminal in…

Will the Minister meet them?

Show them some respect by meeting them.

As a Cabra woman, I extend a particular welcome to all of the girls from Finglas - our neighbours. They are very welcome. Tá fáilte rompu go léir. We are already witnessing a surge in fuel prices in reaction to the US-Israeli onslaught in the Middle East. People across the country are reporting massive hikes in the cost of home heating oil, with prices having increased by as much as 35% in the pa…

The Taoiseach has talked about that for a long time.

Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil teaghlaigh faoi bhrú, ach tá sé soiléir freisin nach bhfuil an Rialtas ag déanamh aon rud - rud ar bith.

I just heard from the Taoiseach an exposition of the fact he is doing nothing. That has been a real subplot of the entire cost-of-living crisis. It is a Government that is hands off, stands back and just allows households to take the pain. Energy companies, supermarket chains and insurance companies are ripping people off and the Government does nothing to stop them. The Taoiseach talked again abo…

I have asked the Taoiseach to set aside the carbon tax increase. Will the Taoiseach do even that small gesture?

How will the Taoiseach tackle these companies which are ripping people off?

Did the Taoiseach hear my question?

Home heating oil.

For this woman, the price has doubled in days.

Do I? The Taoiseach has a habit of looking for no reaction to my question.

The idea of moving the Rotunda Hospital out to Connolly in Blanchardstown never made sense but, of course, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil would not listen. They used this makey-uppy plan to starve the Rotunda, the largest maternity hospital in the country, of resources, investment and development. Now that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have finally dropped this crazy policy I, and I am sure all the women o…

There was never a rationale for it.

It is colocation with the Mater.

Minimal investment.

It is colocated with the Mater.

The appalling failure of children's scoliosis and spina bifida services is a shameful indictment of this and successive Governments. For years, the harrowing stories of children left to wait in agony for their operations has been a distressing feature of debate here in the Dáil, yet the Government has never matched its promises with the actions needed. Heartbroken parents have been forced to watch…