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- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: No doubt the extent of their misery making will sadly become apparent in December with their budget announcement. It does not seem to have occurred to the Taoiseach that the processes he describes, that he has embarked on and that he lauds so fully, are not working. The realpolitik of how this will play out is that, unfortunately, in the case of Ireland, because they failed to assert...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: This statement that the Taoiseach referred to was equivocal as regards Ireland. It only committed to re-examine our situation and, as my party pointed out to the Taoiseach at the time, very dangerously, it stated, "with a view ... [to] improving the sustainability...". There was no recognition of the unsustainability of the position that we are in.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: In addition, it cites our "well-performing adjustment programme", that is, all the cuts that people are suffering. The Taoiseach has failed to make the case at a European level. That is the truth.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should answer the question that I put to him. How is it, in the name of all sanity, that the Department of Finance headed by Deputy Noonan last night welcomed the statement from these three Ministers that told us, if not to drop dead, certainly to get lost?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I quoted that exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is failing.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Serious failure, that should be.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: On the issue of misery, the Taoiseach has cornered the market. He has his joint Ministers for misery, Deputies Noonan and Howlin, seated beside him.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: No doubt the extent of their misery making will sadly become apparent in December with their budget announcement. It does not seem to have occurred to the Taoiseach that the processes he describes, that he has embarked on and that he lauds so fully, are not working. The realpolitik of how this will play out is that, unfortunately, in the case of Ireland, because they failed to assert...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: This statement that the Taoiseach referred to was equivocal as regards Ireland. It only committed to re-examine our situation and, as my party pointed out to the Taoiseach at the time, very dangerously, it stated, "with a view ... [to] improving the sustainability...". There was no recognition of the unsustainability of the position that we are in.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: In addition, it cites our "well-performing adjustment programme", that is, all the cuts that people are suffering. The Taoiseach has failed to make the case at a European level. That is the truth.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should answer the question that I put to him. How is it, in the name of all sanity, that the Department of Finance headed by Deputy Noonan last night welcomed the statement from these three Ministers that told us, if not to drop dead, certainly to get lost?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I quoted that exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is failing.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Serious failure, that should be.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know whether the Taoiseach has read this story about the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, this morning-----
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking this question in the context of promised legislation and the ordering of business. It is a serious matter-----
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----when a Cabinet Minister is involved in things that might be construed as encouraging discrimination.