Results 8,681-8,700 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bit late.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The EU Council guidelines published last Friday reveal what I believe to have been a failure by the Government to stand up for Irish interests. Article 11 deals with the island of Ireland, the peace process and the North, and it is vague and conditional. It contracts starkly with Article 22, which deals with Spain and Gibraltar and gives a determining say to Spain on whether any trade deal...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the section of the programme for Government on creating a healthy Ireland, the Government commits to updating the national eye care plan, including an evaluation of the Sligo model for cataract surgery. Anyone who read the account of 87 year old Agnes O'Connor in The Irish Timesthis morning will have been outraged by the failure of the health system to treat her eye deterioration properly...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In case I missed something, is this a dispute over timing? What is in the difference?
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Half an hour. I thought I was hearing things.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are exhausting this time discussing a difference of half an hour - very productive.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Half an hour.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is waffling.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is in an old politics bubble.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is kind of tragic.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Stop talking.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for the information in respect of the Fennelly report. We await its imminent publication. I could not agree more with the Taoiseach that trust, confidence, respect and pride are exactly what we need. Despite the Taoiseach's talk about commissions and restructuring, and his repeated assertions of a need for accountability and modernisation, his actions shout against...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is getting lost in the midst of all of this is that we are now at a crossroads such that the decisions that we take now will affect not only us and policing in the here and now, but generations to come. The Garda Commissioner's position is untenable. Sin é; that is the position. The commission and restructuring will amount to nothing if the Taoiseach is not prepared to take the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Chief Superintendent Pat Leahy's position is not in question - Nóirín O Sullivan's position is in question.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the future of policing and justice in the State is at a crossroads. Public confidence in the management of An Garda Síochána has been shattered by scandal after scandal and there is a flagrant lack of accountability and a detached arrogance among the top brass. The extent of the damage done to the Garda cannot be overestimated - it is immense. This issue is bigger than...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No review or inquiry, no matter how robust or comprehensive, will be successful in addressing the dysfunctionality at the heart of the Garda while Nóirín O'Sullivan remains in office. It is as simple and clear cut as that. She has presided over a litany of catastrophes and her position is untenable. In no other walk of life would this be a matter for debate. The Commissioner...