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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I know so, it was. What other work does Deloitte & Touche currently do with the Central Bank? Would I be right in saying that that was the same firm that the bank brought in subsequently to work on the implementation or the rectifying of the final audit report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: With all due respect, Professor Lane is the Governor of the Central Bank. I would have thought he ought to know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Here is the problem, Governor. An issue arose; it had to be independently adjudicated on - we absolutely agree on that - but it was adjudicated on by a firm that was subsequently used by the Central Bank to address the issues in the audit report. I have no doubt that the same firm does a myriad of other work for the bank. That gives rise to a question regarding the capacity to really...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: If we leave aside the whistleblower for a moment and just take this report, which was issued by the Central Bank on 29 January 2015, the difficulty is that it does not speak of an organisation that is committed to absolute compliance and the gold standard. It says something very different. To give due recognition, one area in respect of which the bank is compliant is that relating to travel...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is conscious non-compliance, not just non-compliance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is skewed. That is a misuse of the independence that the bank rightly claims for all the other obvious reasons.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The election is fast approaching. Once again, the Labour Party is throwing around election promises like confetti at a wake. Does the Tánaiste really believe that people have such short memories-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Some five years ago, the Labour Party made a litany of promises in order to get into government. It promised to protect low and middle-income families from Fine Gael. Does the Tánaiste remember the slogan "Fine Gael: Every Little Hurts"?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We remember it. The Labour Party said it would oppose water charges. It broke its word. It said it would oppose a property tax. It broke its word. It said it would protect child benefit. It broke its word. It said it would not raise taxes and yet a litany of taxes and charges increased. It said it would not cut social welfare but it cut rates and made payments harder to get. It...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----how on earth does she expect anybody to believe them?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The fuel allowance scheme was cut from 32 weeks to 26 weeks. The fuel, rent and clothing and footwear allowances were cut. That was the Tánaiste's message about shopping around to families who were struggling. The age was raised for disability allowance entitlement. Carer's allowance was cut. I could go on and on. That is the Tánaiste's track record. That is what she has...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: This was the Labour Party's Tesco-style "Every Little Hurts" advertisement, and it seems that going into this general election, it will have the brazen neck to try the same scam all over again.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The news is that people have woken up to the Labour Party. They have wised up to the fact that far from protecting working families and low and middle-income workers it is happy to allow Fine Gael set the agenda, happy to run down public services, happy to agree to tax giveaways and bonanzas for the rich, and happy to ignore any promise it might make. That is what its track record reflects....
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, the record shows that the Labour Party in government raced through the lobbies to extend that banking guarantee-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----so the Tánaiste should save us the homily on that.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste said that in her view the recovery is dynamic. The recovery has not visited the vast majority of communities and families throughout the country, and she remains blind and indifferent to that. In this general election will the Tánaiste come clean, put her hands up and accept her party's dismal record in government? I ask her not to insult the intelligence of the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Wow.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Three thousand euro an hour?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have children.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Several days.