Results 12,921-12,940 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is important, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, and I would like one answer to that question.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a reasonable question.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed on the basis that there is uncertainty around this matter of the debate on the motion arising from the committee report. I say respectfully to the Business Committee that this is very messy.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: My concern is that we will have statements this evening, which is fine.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I was not talking to Deputy Kehoe. I am addressing the Ceann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. My concern is that in the middle of this messing-----
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----there will be a motion but that time will not be afforded to debate it. We will be in the ridiculous position, therefore, where we will have statements in advance of the report but no substantive debate on the motion. That is a farcical way to go about our business.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the information of the House, the Taoiseach and the leader of Fianna Fáil, a fresh election is envisaged because that is what the legislation provides for. I am sure both gentlemen are aware of that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is extremely alarming that the Taoiseach continues to entirely misunderstand his role in these matters. The Taoiseach needs to lift the phone to Theresa May. It is quite disgraceful that he has not done so at this stage as we are five and a half weeks at this. It is the political equivalent of a slow bicycle race. We are speaking into a vacuum, it seems, as regards the DUP. We have...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Governments have also defaulted on their obligations. It is a matter of all parties implementing - that is what we want. Why is that such a contentious thing to ask for? How could the Taoiseach imagine that we could reestablish an Executive or institutions on any other basis? Deputy Micheál Martin believes that the institutions should not have been collapsed. Of course,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is this not very interesting? Fianna Fáil struggles with the idea of a political system reacting to allegations of corruption, coming from within the DUP in respect of advisers and so on. I must stress they are only allegations but they are very serious. Here is the newsflash for the leader of Fianna Fáil: people in the North do not just want credible institutions, they want...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: When they are found not to be clean, the people respond in a very negative way. That is how Nationalists, republicans and others in the North of Ireland actually roll, Deputy Martin.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Martin's party wrote the guide book on corruption.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She is meeting all the parties.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She is meeting extensively-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are all serious about delivering on these matters
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We had agreement on that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has not challenged them on that matter.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have agreed to the mechanism for that.