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- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can we expect a vote tomorrow to elect a Taoiseach? It is some 68 days or almost ten weeks since polling day. Will an Administration be formed or will we be left in this virtual reality or limbo Chamber for weeks and weeks to come?
- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is the obvious question-----
- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is the obvious question that needs to be asked and answered by An Taoiseach. We have word of an agreement, a programme for Government, perhaps, in all but name, from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. It would raise alarm bells for many people, certainly for anyone who is concerned with the health system or the fair administration of medical cards and so on.
- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Be that as it may, can we have a moment of clarity from this Chamber to the world outside that is wondering whether we will ever have a Government-----
- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----or, perhaps, in some cases, whether we should have a Government? Can the Taoiseach please-----
- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the purposes of keeping every Member informed-----
- Business of Dáil (4 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and in recognition of the esteem in which we are all held individually on the basis of our democratic mandate, could the Taoiseach please shed some light on when or whether there will be a vote to elect a Taoiseach and establish an Administration?
- Business of Dáil (5 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister of State speak up? We cannot hear.
- Business of Dáil (5 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, I raised the issue of statements on crime and Garda resourcing, and I am pleased to see that we are having those statements and that debate today. It is, however, very disappointing and inexplicable that mental health and statements on the Irish language got written out of the schedule. It does not make any sense to do that and then to ask the House to rise at 4.30 p.m. I put it...
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Broin, if I may; I will have ten minutes and he will have five.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: First, I am pleased that Members finally are discussing these matters in the Dáil. It is of course not the first time, nor will it be the last, that issues of crime, criminality, gangland events and community safety have arisen in this House. They are ongoing issues and, as the Minister has acknowledged, they are a source of considerable distress and fear nationwide. This has been...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am assuming this is the sole occasion on which Deputy O'Dea will give way for me to speak.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are 70 days on, a Cheann Comhairle, and we are still waiting. Waiting for Godot, although this is not so much Beckett as Flann O'Brien in the qualities of its absurdity. What do we know? We know that those in Fianna Fáil, despite all their protestations to the contrary, are prepared to put Fine Gael and Deputy Enda Kenny back into Government. We know of their absolute cynicism in...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin will provide constructive and robust opposition to Deputy Kenny and his Government, if instated. We want him to know that we will be here on behalf of all those who rely on good Government and good decisions and who rely on change. The people really need fairness, and they understand what that word means because they have experienced so much unfairness, exclusion and...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (17 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 405 and 406 of 26 April 2016, the date of the first time Bus Éireann informed his Department and the subsequent dates in each year since 2005 on which it informed his Department that it had made no profit from school transport in a particular financial year in tabular form and to clarify his...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It behoves the Tánaiste to answer the question. Where is Dáil reform now?
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Burton is a paragon of honesty.
- Other Questions: Tax Code (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the commitment to phase out of the universal social charge; and the level of economic risk he attributes to this policy. [10544/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Programme for Government Initiatives (18 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the quantum of the fund referred to in the commitment in the programme for Government to establish a rainy day fund; and the way in which it will operate. [10545/16]