Mary Lou McDonald

-----living in a live genocide.

What about the children from Palestine?

In August 2016, Clodagh Hawe and her three young sons, Liam, Niall and Ryan, were murdered by her husband and their father Alan Hawe. He then killed himself. Clodagh's sister, Jacqueline Connolly, and her mother have been asking for the 2019 serious crime review into those murders be released by the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris. An initial investigation determined that Alan Hawe was motivated b…

30. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [35556/25]

I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — endometriosis is a serious, chronic inflammatory disease that affects the entire body, and it is characterised by severe pelvic pain, infertility, internal scarring (fibrosis), heavy and painful menstruation, and can cause irreversible damage to multiple organs; — the disease primarily affects organs within the pelvic cavity, including the uterus, fallo…

-----and it is seen by all of us here as exactly what it is. Women who have had access to the correct treatment have told us what it means. They say they feel reborn, that they got their lives back, that they shared the joy of being part of the lives of their children and their families again, that they could work again, that they could breathe easy again. That is what is at stake. That is what re…

It is not a speech. It is bullet points.

The Minister has not explained why she is opposing our motion. Why is she opposing our motion?

Please do.

It is failing.

Doctors send them away.

The Minister is gaslighting us.

To which clinical decisions specifically is the Minister referring?

To what clinical decisions is the Minister referring? The Ceann Comhairle gave her extra speaking time.

Tell us which clinical decision the Minister is talking about, Robert, please. I am all ears.

No, they have not.

The Minister of State cannot do that. He should not do that.

This is outrageous.

I am the only person respecting the visitors.

Is the Minister of State watching the reaction in the Gallery? The visitors know, as I do, that what he said is wrong.

There is an immediate need for the Government to intervene to end the delay in evacuating very sick and injured children from Gaza to Ireland for urgent medical treatment. Last year, as the Taoiseach knows, the Government agreed to evacuate 30 of these children. There were two successful evacuations of 12 children in December and May. However, the vital evacuation of the remaining 18 children has …

No child is safe in Gaza. The Israeli genocide has mercilessly slaughtered children with abandon and the international community has watched on. The commitment made by this State and Government is a very modest one to take 30 children. They should be evacuated with all due haste. According to the medics who will treat these children, not alone have eight children been identified by the World Healt…

By the way, I have been in contact with the Tánaiste and he informed me that there was in fact a necessity-----

-----for a memo to Cabinet. I do not know what the communications are like within government; I am not really interested in that. I am interested in the children-----

-----and the need to evacuate them now for the treatment they need.