Results 9,641-9,660 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, Irish Water was forced to admit that fewer than half of householders were paying the Government's water tax. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, the Tánaiste's deputy leader,-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----has insisted that the €30.5 million collected to date of a projected income of €66.8 million was "a good start". I do not know what planet the Minister is living on, but his delusional response to the overwhelming rejection of water charges further discredits the Government. We learned today that, with the failure of the Government's intimidation and threats, Irish Water...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----by telephone in a desperate, last ditch attempt-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to get them to sign up to water charges. This move is pathetic. I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday all of these issues. How does Irish Water expect to attract investment with such a derisory level of compliance with the Government's charge? According to one economist, at least 80% of householders would need to pay if the company were to borrow at competitive rates. That is not...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's figures for the Irish Water quango do not add up. It is time that she face this reality. The water tax is finished. Will the Tánaiste and the Labour Party heed this message?
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am struck by the extent to which the Tánaiste has morphed into a Fine Gael mouthpiece. There is not a sliver of difference between her answer-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Labour Party, led by the Tánaiste, which came to office on a platform of opposition to water charges for some very obvious reasons, not least that people had suffered so much by way of cutbacks and were struggling to get by, now staunchly defends the indefensible. The Labour Party and the Tánaiste stand shoulder to shoulder with the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny and tells people...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should listen to the people as she has promised to do and scrap this scheme. It is not working for the people or for the State's balance sheet. Would the Tánaiste prefer to blindly follow where Deputy Enda Kenny and his Blueshirt colleagues lead her, and insist on a policy that is clearly failing? She disregards lone parents, pickpockets them and leaves them...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am suggesting that the Government should stop screwing struggling families. That is my proposition to the Tánaiste.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The answer is never.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can we see that advice?
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can we see the advice?
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We oppose the guillotining of important legislation but there is something especially cynical about guillotining this Bill, which has been rushed from start to finish. In its haste to get these matters through, the Government got the justice committee to sit last Friday, which was most unusual. It has allowed an hour or an hour and a half to scrutinise legislation that proposes attachment...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (16 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 559. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding an application for dental braces for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30100/15]
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I trust the Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris, has not been distracted by his own theatrics. I am impressed at the way in which all the best boys in the class are lined up to defend the honour of An Taoiseach.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The best girl will stand there presently. I wonder did they all bring apples to the Taoiseach this morning-----
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and leave them on his desk to curry favour.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, in his somewhat monotone contribution earlier, seemed to be labouring under the misapprehension that the Fennelly report was merely a fig leaf, an excuse we had all waited for to table a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach. Far from needing to conjure any pretext to table a motion of no confidence, the objective conditions on the ground and the experiences...
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am very sorry to hear that it has not been easy for the Minister of State in government.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I can hear the hearts of the nation breaking on his behalf because it has been so difficult for him. Boohoo. That pales into insignificance beside the hardship it has visited on people right across the country. The Government's rhetoric about recovery and its bombast rings very hollow, certainly in the constituency that I represent-----