Results 4,581-4,600 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Minister who wants to make savings in the public interest.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Section 2B really cuts to the chase in what the Government is seeking to achieve with the legislation. On the one hand it reconfirms the strategy of dividing and conquering public sector workers, although the Minister is aware that a trade union is seeking legal advice on the constitutionality of treating different workers in a different manner on the basis of trade union membership or...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister pretends that he is somehow protecting that set of workers but he is doing absolutely nothing of the sort. The provision in this legislation gives the Minister and his colleagues in the Government the scope to do more of the same.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So that is why it is there.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that not a recipe for duress?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I was talking about clerical officers on €32,000 per annum.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is saying that clerical officers on €32,000 should take a hit.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Section 2B really cuts to the chase in what the Government is seeking to achieve with the legislation. On the one hand it reconfirms the strategy of dividing and conquering public sector workers, although the Minister is aware that a trade union is seeking legal advice on the constitutionality of treating different workers in a different manner on the basis of trade union membership or...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister pretends that he is somehow protecting that set of workers but he is doing absolutely nothing of the sort. The provision in this legislation gives the Minister and his colleagues in the Government the scope to do more of the same.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So that is why it is there.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that not a recipe for duress?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I was talking about clerical officers on €32,000 per annum.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is saying that clerical officers on €32,000 should take a hit.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will direct her Department to begin a public awareness campaign to highlight the availability of family income supplement. [25716/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Rates (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has had any discussions with the Department of Education and Skills regarding potential changes to child benefit payments. [25717/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is nice to see Ms Feehily in again to discuss these matters. The use of the term "voluntary compliance" strikes me as odd and misleading in circumstances in which the Revenue Commissioners has set out clearly that non-compliance will meet with deductions from wages, social welfare payments or bank accounts. I note the reports in the media which suggest that the Revenue Commissioners...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That may well be the case in terms of the statutory interpretation, but the interpretation by the public at large who are having this tax levied upon them is that compliance is many things but it is far from voluntary, because the consequences of non-compliance are very serious indeed. Will it be PAYE workers first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That means that the general gist of the media reports that I saw was correct. I know that Ms Feehily said it was "sort of" true but it is in the first instance PAYE workers, occupational pensions, social welfare recipients and then, albeit in parallel, the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will that also be the pecking order in respect of the imposition of any levies for those who are non-compliant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: One could call them fines.