Results 2,561-2,580 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (18 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all State agencies under his aegis; the total annual cost of each agency to the Exchequer. [36960/12]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Rehiring (18 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Taoiseach the number of retired civil or public servants that have been rehired by his Department since March 2012; their positions and accompanying salaries. [36961/12]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Rehiring (18 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Taoiseach the number of retired civil or public servants that have been retained by his Department since March 2012 on a short term contract or on a consultancy basis where normal abatement rules do not apply. [36962/12]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Telecommunications Services Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of his telecommunications services 2012 budget [36963/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Recruitment (18 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of new recruits to his Department following its establishment and up to and including July 2012; the positions they hold and the annual salaries paid. [37164/12]
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tell that to Clare County Council.
- Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Allowances (19 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: This review of allowances is seven months late and we have not been given an opportunity in the Dáil to debate the issues arising even though we were promised a debate on them. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has looked into his heart, de Valera style, and made this decision in secrecy. Despite extensive commentary on the matter there is very little concrete financial...
- Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Allowances (19 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Notwithstanding the crumbs from his table for new entrant teachers, the Minister seems pretty nonplussed by this issue. He seems to accept that he will have a two-tier workforce in the education system and that a variety of allowances - I have not seen the individual figures - will be taken from support for Gaeilge and the Gaeltacht. The Minister needs to reconsider that. I am alarmed by...
- Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Allowances (19 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then why not cut salaries at the top?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Calleary may be suggesting relationship counselling or some kind of mediation for the two individuals concerned. I reiterate our welcome for the publication of the proposed wording of the constitutional amendment on children and congratulate the Government on its publication. It is without doubt a significant and long overdue step towards enshrining children's rights in the...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not interested in hearing the Tánaiste's lament about Fianna Fáil.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish he would stop it. The Government's last budget was judged, not only by Sinn Féin but also by organisations such as Barnados, as having heaped huge hardship on children. Stealth taxes and cuts to public services and social welfare all had an impact on child citizens. Of course, we had the debacle of DEIS schools and the attempt to take teachers away from some of the most...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not have confidence in the robustness of the process for children-proofing the budget. The constitutional referendum will not be a simple plebiscite of the people and a popular vote. It puts it up to the Government to put its money where its mouth is. If the Government is serious about protecting the rights of children, it will protect the services they rely on and the income of low...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I listened carefully.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: So, cutbacks are good for children.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know whether to laugh or cry when the Tánaiste extols the priority the Government attaches to job creation and then refers to the damning figures in today's newspapers. The initiatives the Government is taking are failing.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Ceann Comhairle gave leeway to others.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will be momentarily distracted again. The Tánaiste should give over. Is he seriously suggesting the Government is dealing with the jobs crisis in this State? He is not codding anybody with that nonsense.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Reference was made earlier to the Tánaiste's colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Roisín Shortall, and her dysfunctional relationship with the Minister for Health.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not so worried about that; I am more worried about the delivery of the service. The Minister of State raised the issue of the health (amendment) Bill, under which it is intended to provide free GP care services. She clearly feels there is not sufficient priority attaching to this matter. When will it be resolved? When will the legislation be forthcoming? The Minister of State was...