Results 8,981-9,000 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what he said.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: For several months I have asked the Tánaiste to explain how families who have bourne the brunt of the Government's austerity policies can pay the unjust and unfair water tax. I have asked her directly which daily necessities she proposes they forgo to prop up the discredited entity that is Irish Water. She has never once given me a straight answer. We now know the reason for her...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Tánaiste to answer my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question has not been answered.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not me the Tánaiste has to convince of people's anxiety to get back to work. That is a conversation she should have much closer to home, primarily with her colleague, the Minister for Finance. I trust she will have that conversation with him and will ask him to desist from insulting and being condescending towards people who find themselves out of work. That would be at least...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Tánaiste regard that as a principled position? It is a disgraceful thing to do, and none of her highfalutin' and condescending rhetoric can disguise that. People cannot afford these bills. The Tánaiste says she is acting on a proposal from the Law Reform Commission from a number of years back. That proposal does indeed exist, but the Tánaiste is not fooling...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should answer my original question - not that it is terribly unusual not to get an answer. What does she say to that woman in that struggling household? What does the Tánaiste suggest she set aside to put together the €65? Is the Tánaiste happy to give her even more sleepless nights as she worries about how and when the Tánaiste's hand will be stuck...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They want her to respond, if she would be so good as to give an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That was not my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to a very particular section of society. Could we have the question answered?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not asked about people who are well off.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not asked about people on big salaries.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I expect an answer to my question?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What item should that woman and her family forego to pay your water tax? That was the question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What item should that woman raising her children forego to pay your bill? Please answer my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What item does that woman forego to pay this bill?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And you will pickpocket her disgracefully.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: She is not. She is being put under immense pressure by you. What item does she take off her shopping list?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I think you should answer questions. That is what I think.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am questioning you.