Results 9,301-9,320 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should not demean herself.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (30 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form for the 2015-16 school year the allocation of mainstream classroom teachers, special needs assistants, any other teaching staff resources and the teacher-pupil ratio for each class in third, fourth, fifth and sixth class for every senior school in Dublin 22. [25954/15]
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach certainly did not raise a racket.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Three million of them are in poverty thanks to the Taoiseach's friends.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: To suit the Taoiseach.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Minister of State why it is not agreed.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister of State give an explanation for not agreeing to that?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear from the Minister of State’s reaction that he wanted to brush off Deputy Catherine Murphy’s most reasonable request that, given the antics and manoeuvres of Government, the content of the amendments and the length of some of them, at the very least we should, and the public might, expect a full and thorough Committee Stage consideration of each amendment. The...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: If that is not parliamentary language, I put it to the Minister of State that this is not correct parliamentary procedure. What is going on here is not worthy of any assembly that would have even the pretence of going through proper democratic processes and oversight.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is right Deputy Bannon.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Catherine Murphy and the Opposition are quite right to insist that this matter go to Committee Stage. Can we have a full and detailed explanation from the Minister of State of why he and the Government have proceeded in this manner and why he feels we are not due, and the citizens and taxpayers in this jurisdiction cannot expect, a proper Committee Stage debate on this issue, because...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: She is absolutely right.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is absolute rubbish.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The cleaner working ten hours per week is not being given the additional four hours.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that what the Government is doing?
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They will have plenty to say to the Deputy when they meet him afterwards.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Liberate them from their children.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: This will not do it.