Results 8,381-8,400 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I accept the Minister's point in respect of a broad-based definition and moving away from the Canadian definition, which it has stepped back from. However, the Minister has exempted quite a number of different categories of communications, bodies and individuals, so he has very substantially pruned the scope of this. By the way, I accept the Minister's bona fides in so doing and I am not...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The housing crisis continues to spiral out of control. As the Tánaiste knows, families still present as homeless every single day. Almost 100,000 people are on housing lists across the State, some of them for lengthy periods. Last December, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, launched a glossy, 90-page social housing strategy. He...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's strategy document, launched to much fanfare before Christmas, specifically promises 5,384 new social housing units, to be delivered in 2015. I did not write the document; it is a document of the Tánaiste's Government and of a Labour Party Minister. I asked the Tánaiste to explain to us how she proposes to make good that promise and deliver the units in 2015. If I...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: She commended me for commending her, and then she echoed my point that housing units cannot be delivered overnight. She made the promise to provide 5,384 new social housing units in 2015 but she is not going to deliver them, yet the promise was in her document. She might explain this to us. Irrespective of the meetings the Minister might have had throughout the country, the fact remains...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: If that is the case, it is a disgrace. When will local authority budgets be allocated? Does she know? Does she care? I do not need her to run off and ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, to release another press statement. It is appropriate that she answer specific questions when they are put to her. I am concerned about the social...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And keep the promise to provide 5,384 units.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not at all.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask that; I did ask about the 5,384 units.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: So the Tánaiste is not going to answer. Will we see the units in 2015?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Five thousand, three hundred and eighty four social housing units.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: In 2015?
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach confirmed yesterday that only two of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention will be put by way of referendum during the lifetime of the Government. The Tánaiste will recall that the Dáil resolution to establish the convention committed the Government to respond to each of the recommendations within four months of publication and to schedule separate...
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was a Government commitment made in respect of a particular schedule.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Whips should not have to do so.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And many have not.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Durkan should get his Whip to raise the matter.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 38:In page 9, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(f) senior public servants between the ranks of secretaries general and principal officer; (g) regulators; (h) management boards of public bodies;”.I was surprised this amendment was not grouped with the previous batch. The position has been set out that in addition to overtly political...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 41:In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“ “charitable organisation” means a charitable organisation which is the holder of a CHY number issued by the Revenue Commissioners;”.I indicated earlier that I wish to withdraw the amendment.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 42:In page 10, to delete lines 21 to 35, and in page 11, to delete lines 1 to 19.This amendment reflects that fact that, on reading the Bill, I felt that the definition or scope of the public service body was too restrictive. My amendment proposed to strike out the definition, but having reflected on this I want to withdraw the amendment and adopt an approach of adding...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 56:In page 13, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following:“(g) in the case of a lobbying activity by a person under section 5(1)(a), the overall amount spent on that lobbying action by the client, and in the case of a lobbying activity by a person under section 5(1)(b), the costs associated with that lobbying action,”.Others have pointed out that for...