Results 7,761-7,780 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are interrupting me for that.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you for that very helpful intervention.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I think that is deliberately disruptive. I think An Taoiseach-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I feel it was deliberately disruptive.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not withdrawing it. I believe it was deliberately disruptive.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is ridiculous.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Pardon me?
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I believe it was a biased intervention. I am not withdrawing it.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will leave the Chamber and I hope the Taoiseach has heard what I have had to say.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is now clear to everybody with an ounce of common sense that the Tánaiste is presiding over an absolute shambles in Irish Water and worse in respect of the Government's decision to impose domestic water charges on struggling families. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Dublin last Saturday and told the Government loud and clear that they could not afford these...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: If anyone had any doubts as to whether you give a toss about struggling families, your smart-alec, dismissive and inaccurate response gave them their answer.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: A smart-alec Tánaiste thinks it is smart to disregard the concerns of RAS tenants that their inability to pay her awful charge could jeopardise their homes.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: You stood up to give me a smart-alec response. That is not good enough. I apologise if this breaches Dáil etiquette, but let us call it what it is.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The fact is that local authority management administers government policy. Despite - I presume - knowing how people struggle, the Government is insistent on these water charges. Council management, on behalf of the Tánaiste, has written to tenants-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to state that failure to pay the charge will jeopardise their homes.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let us try again to get an answer, and let us hope for a serious and respectful answer from the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The fact is that people are struggling, never mind the €100 alleviation. People are down to their cents. Does the Tánaiste understand that? They do not have the money to pay. Can she please get to her feet and confirm for the 36,000 families on RAS that their failure to pay this bill will not mean - be categoric - that they lose the roofs over their heads?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can she at least have the decency to answer that question directly for those families?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are getting personal now.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am looking for your answer.