Results 1-20 of 20,495 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Outside of the UN Charter?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Well then test it so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It should be tested by means of a referendum.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So leave it alone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [11793/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I had intended to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of extending the franchise for the presidential elections because the Government has dragged its heels on that matter which is most unfortunate. I want to return to the issue of neutrality because we need to nail this nonsense the Government is trying to peddle that somehow removing the need for a UN mandate is a minor modification of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [11792/24]
- 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...