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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should do that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister tell us-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should ask again. He should not mind that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The macroeconomic forecast will be produced by the Government or Department and the Fiscal Advisory Council will endorse it or otherwise. The official forecast is by the Government. What is the distinction between the macroeconomic forecasts and the official forecast?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: How does it differ from the macroeconomic forecasts?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Whether vampires exist in reality, the characters we heard on the now infamous tapes are not fictional. All of us can appreciate the disgust, although not the shock, people felt at hearing the macho diatribes between these individuals. The disgust felt by the tens of thousands of families across the State who are in mortgage distress is all the deeper. To listen to Mr. David Drumm describe...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is an accountant and that was an accountant's answer, if I ever heard one. We all know that there has to be a resolution process for families in debt.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That has never been contested. The Government is proposing a process that will give the banks a veto.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is not providing for a level playing pitch for the struggling household and the macho men, many of whom are still in place in the financial system.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is neither even-handed not fair to pit the moolah boys against the struggling householder.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Minister to revisit her accountant's mindset and perhaps factor this in. She and her colleagues are always telling us how right they were on the banks.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: If that is the case, why did they leave the Anglo boys who treated the State with such contempt in place for five years after the guarantee on salaries of €175,000 and more?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are presiding over circumstances in which none of these moolah men has been brought to account.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not one of them has faced time in jail.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government certainly does not have a charter for harassing them. There is one law for the rich and another for the poor.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is polishing her halo with regard to the banks.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That only makes what the Government is doing at this time all the worse. It has protected these people.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has allowed them to stay in highly paid positions. At the same time, its response to the plight of struggling homeowners has been heartless.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: According to figures released last week, the number of people in arrears has increased for the 14th quarter in a row since September 2009.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This has happened on the Government's watch.