Results 9,281-9,300 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Was the internal review provided to the Veterinary Council of Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: On its own proceedings.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It is like a tribunal. Will you provide us with a copy of the internal review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It has also been raised with several Ministers.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (23 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 513. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the location and status of the passport applications in respect of children (details supplied); when the passports will be issued; his views that a process that does not seem to keep track of documentation of such high importance is demonstrably inadequate, especially considering these children are living in fear of violence in the...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today is the last day that lone parents whose youngest child is seven will receive the one-parent family payment. Next week 30,000 lone parents will transfer onto the new transitional jobseeker's allowance and more than 10,000 of these parents will have their weekly payments cut, some by as much as €87. It is a great pity that the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Welfare, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am glad the Minister stated what we all know, that is, the extent to which single-parent families are at risk of poverty. He will be aware, not alone of that but that studies have reflected the fact that lone-parent families disproportionately suffered, under both the previous Government and, indeed, his own, in an era of austerity and cutbacks. We also know that many of those families...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What use is that to these families now?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What of the Tánaiste's commitment? That is the question I asked.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That the Government is going to cut their incomes again.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They do not need more motivation.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question as regards the Tánaiste's commitment, please.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is nothing humane about the cuts to these families.
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I endorse the sentiments of the previous Deputy. It is appropriate as young Lorcán Miller is laid to rest, the last of the young victims of this tragedy, that we once again send our sympathy and solidarity to each of the families, friends and the young people who were associated with, or caught up in, what has been a nightmare for those families. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on...
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: This Government and in particular the Labour Party have earned the unenviable reputation of being anti-woman and anti-child and do not seem to care who knows it. It appears to have made a calculated decision that lone parents, like carers and other vulnerable sections of society are inconsequential. Perhaps the Tánaiste figures they are a section of voters whose support she does not...
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government stated that the measures which reduced the upper age limit to seven years would only occur when there was a credible system of child care in place. The Tánaiste emphasised that if this was not forthcoming, the Government would not proceed with the measures. The question then arises of where is this safe, affordable and accessible child care and where is this equivalent of...
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is pathetic.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's vision is poverty for families.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Tánaiste had any concern, she would not raise it in that cheap fashion but there you go, it is no great surprise.