Results 9,601-9,620 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: NAMA is shrouded in secrecy and accountable to no one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: In addition to all of that, the Taoiseach cited the issue of housing and accommodation as one of the core issues to be tackled to facilitate people's return. As he is aware, there is a housing crisis throughout the State, particularly in the city of Dublin. The Taoiseach is aware that more than 40,000 families are on Dublin City Council's housing waiting list and that Dublin City Council...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the €18.5 million shortfall?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is a shortfall of €18.5 million for homeless services.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Walking headlong into it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are letting the Government know that there is a €18.5 million shortfall.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I believe 12 of the questions are in the name of Deputy Gerry Adams. Let me do my best to deal with them. Over the weekend and last night we saw many incidents of race hatred in the North. The targets in many of them were Sinn Féin representatives whose election posters were placed on bonfires. In a particularly offensive incident an effigy of Michelle Gildernew was hung over a...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, as today is Bastille Day, the guillotine is out. The Government proposes to guillotine the debate on any number of Bills this week as it races towards the finish line of this Dáil session. I oppose the guillotining of the debate on Report Stage of the Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014. What we have seen is four years of foot-dragging in reaching the final stages of...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. Absolutely.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I figured it was beyond the Government Deputies.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is nothing wrong with my maths, I can tell the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with those comments. Once again, this is very important legislation that has been awaited for a long time. There has been an inordinate delay in bringing the Bill through the Houses of the Oireachtas but we find ourselves again at the eleventh hour and with a rush to the finishing line and the use of the guillotine, so we object on those grounds also.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Under the Haddington Road agreement, and a side deal struck thereafter, former Ministers and taoisigh are to receive an increase in their pensions. The Taoiseach will be aware that this has gone down like a lead balloon in the public sphere. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it? He has passed the ball to the recipients rather than the Government acting to remedy it. Last week,...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not one or two individuals.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bribe.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure they do.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: In a major blow to the Government’s misguided water charges policy, Irish Water has finally revealed that it managed to collect from only 43% of households who had been targeted to pay. This is despite the extraordinary lengths to which the Government has gone to force them to pay. In the face of widespread rejection of the water tax, the Government had resorted to coercion, or so it...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: In my experience, they are a mixture of people who will not pay on principle because they already pay through general taxation; they believe water is a human right and oppose the privatisation of such a vital service. As I have explained to the Taoiseach many times, there are many families who cannot pay, who do not have the €3 or €1 per week about which he is so glib. They do...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach do something refreshing and out of character? Will he end the sorry saga that is Irish Water? Will he, finally, acknowledge that his Government's efforts to bribe, coerce and intimidate families into complying with his water tax have failed? Will he return to the drawing board and abolish these charges?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I hate to break it to the Taoiseach but he is going to be sorely disappointed if that is his sincere hope. He has comprehensively failed to win the support of the people for the introduction of this charge. What he has left them with is a quango of enormous proportions, controversies around consultancy fees and so on, meters in the ground that cost a fortune and which are not being used....