Mary Lou McDonald

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367 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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The Claire Byrne Show · Leader of Sinn Féin and TD for Dublin Central, Mary Lou McDonald · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And we when we present our alternative budget, we'll put a huge emphasis on that, as your listeners would expect on on housing.

We want to help do everything we can to help people get their home for recovery.

Recurrent spending using money that might necessarily be there in a couple of years time.

that you simply cannot do more with less, as they say.

And when you consider there are 300,000 households now in arrears in terms of their electricity bills, that just gives you a slight insight as to where many, many households are at.

Others who aren't in arrears are still feeling it because everything now is just so much more expensive.

So our big critique of last year's budget is that it left workers and working people completely behind.

really disadvantaged disabled people.

And, of course, the big infrastructural questions of our time, especially housing, the need for people to get their home still left in a crisis situation.

So as we're preparing for the budget, these are the things that we're now doing our work on.

We got knocked back on the emergency budget.

The government simply said no, they weren't interested, so...

Is that what you were doing or what is your response to the accusation?

They weren't being heard.

They weren't being seen.

And they had a government that simply did not want to know.

Just remember, we had raised this issue consistently.

We were blue in the face raising the issue with both Micheál Martin and Simon Harris.

We told them this is a real situation where farmers, agricultural contractors and others were in trouble.

Can I tell you Clare, but I'm making the point, nobody had to get these families and workers out on the street.

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