Results 3,561-3,580 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: But Mr. MacSharry is on the remuneration committee and, in fact, chairs it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the point of the remuneration committee then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: So, you stand over those salaries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: So, you do not stand over those salaries.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I, too, wish everyone who works in the Houses of the Oireachtas, the Deputies gathered in the Chamber and their families and those viewing proceedings at home a very happy Christmas. Nollaig shona daoibh go léir. On 26 September, Deputy Róisín Shortall resigned her junior Ministry in the Department of Health. On 25 October, almost one month later, I raised with the...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's monotonal response does not take from this scandal. I have in my hand the briefing document prepared for and used by the Minister at that meeting on 20 April. Explicitly in the document, black on white, there is a mention of a particular site, namely, 68-70 Dublin Street. This is the site in the town centre that is currently being used as a surface car park. I am...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: We said at the time, and let me repeat it-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me say this-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and I said it at the time-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The wrong Minister resigned. The former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----was punished for doing the right thing.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: She was punished for standing by proper standards in public office.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste awards another senior Minister by turning away his gaze and by not tracking the Minister's activities. This is a disgrace.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not innuendo. I have the document in front of me.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not working on the basis of innuendo or supposition.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have in my hand the briefing note that came from the Department-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and it states very clearly that a particular site-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----was discussed with NAMA, the same site that the Minister slipped onto the list. My question to the Tánaiste is simply this - what will he do about this whole scenario from which he has deliberately turned his face?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a departmental briefing note.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is called opposition.