Results 4,181-4,200 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----the absence of a thinking cap, even the Taoiseach should be able to answer.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government legislate for that?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So it will not.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true and the workers know that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I rarely get it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yeah right.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Labour Party share that view?
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: This matter should be given time for discussion and reflection, not least due to the turn of events and the decision by public sector workers to vote against Croke Park II. This is simply another sleight of hand on the part of the Taoiseach to slide something through on the nod, which appears to be the Taoiseach's and the Government's form.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To clarify, is it correct that the legislation will not be forthcoming, as had been indicated? Legislation has not been drafted.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: In that case, I assume there will not be legislation. When does the Taoiseach expect Mr. Justice Quirke to report back on the Magdalen redress scheme? Will he provide a date? Will he also clarify the reason that, notwithstanding certain indications he gave at the time, Summerhill in Wexford continues to be excluded from the terms of reference of the redress scheme? The Taoiseach...
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, to delete lines 28 and 29.We debated the matter to which this amendment relates on Committee Stage. As the Minister acknowledged at that point, the national lottery has been a great success story for a number of decades. It has provided money for good causes, prize money for the public and is considered, not least by him, as a model of good practice. I...
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand we are taking together all of those amendments referring to the regulator. I understand why the office of regulator is being established in this legislation. I recall from the Committee Stage discussions that the Minister indicated that in the first instance the regulator's concern will be the national lottery but that it is envisaged that the regulator would have a broader...
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 25:In page 13, to delete lines 26 to 36, and in page 14, to delete lines 1 to 17.The amendment proposes to repeal the provisions for the licence to hold a national lottery. I have moved the amendment as much for the purposes of consistency as anything else. Members have had a debate on the regulator and there will not be a meeting of minds on it. However, the Minister...
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 30:In page 16, to delete lines 7 to 20.The amendment refers to the section of the Bill which provides for the winding up of An Post National Lottery Company. Over the past 25 years that company has achieved over €12 billion in sales, provided €6 billion in prizes and raised €4 billion for good causes. It is an exemplary record. The Minister will...
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I support and endorse Deputy O'Sullivan's comments in respect of the activism and productivity of community-based organisations that care for the environment. One can see from the plethora of local initiatives, including tidy towns committees, how passionate citizens are about this. There is also an economic element to this. Bord Fáilte says that 80% of visitors to Ireland rank the...
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: These are controversial amendments. Perhaps we will need more time to discuss them.
- Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome all the women, their family members and their advocates who are in the Visitors Gallery. I also commend my colleague and friend, Deputy Ó Caoláin, on introducing this Private Members' Bill. I was also about to welcome the fact that the Government is supporting the Bill and then I heard what the Minister of State had to say, which rang an alarm bell with me. Whatever...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a Millward Brown survey that found that in addition to losing classroom subject teachers, many schools have also lost specialist teachers and that 40% of schools have lost learning support/resource teaching hours, while 37% have lost English-language support teaching hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17567/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out his implementation plan for the Labour Relations Commission's Croke Park 2 recommendations. [18001/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It does not really matter at this juncture that the Minister's view remains that the Croke Park deal was fair, equitable, balanced and all of the vocabulary he has used. The workers did not act impulsively or rashly, they thought about this carefully and had done the maths. Whereas the Minister has said the core pay of 87% of workers was unaffected, the difficulty was that in respect of...