Results 421-440 of 21,404 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: With all due respect, it is hardly convincing for the Taoiseach to warn us about the impending difficulties for the multi-annual framework for the budget when out of the other side of his mouth, he has lauded what amounts to a weapons race and a hyper-militarisation of Europe. It is also ironic to note that the origins of the European project going back to the European Coal and Steel...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is allowed to make a point of order.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is there a copy of the Taoiseach's statement?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, it was.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach set out the road to government of the Lowry TDs. He emphasised their willingness to serve, their forensic analysis of the programme for Government and then their accession to high office - all of the building blocks that define them categorically as Government TDs. The Taoiseach is quite right. After an election there is of course a necessity to assemble a Government and you...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Robust opposition.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not preach the Constitution having done what you did. Spare us the homily, Micheál.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a reflection on you, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, you have not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. The Opposition.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Like what?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go away with you.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. An absolute disgrace.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not correct. That is nonsense.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Try as you may wish, Taoiseach, with all the tools of deflection, there was one person and one side of the House that undermined democracy yesterday and it was the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, you get to defend your rights as a Government. You have assembled your Government between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Lowry Independents. That is your prerogative - I absolutely recognise that - but you do not get to put together the Opposition.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the point. The most basic rule of the functioning of this place is the distinction between the Government exercising its prerogatives and the Opposition holding it robustly to account. You do not like accountability, Micheál Martin - cry me a river, because you will be held to account. The other basic necessity is the independence and absolute impartiality of the Ceann...