Results 13,681-13,700 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: I am not asking Mr. Waters to do that. I am asking him to put himself in the place of the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality of this State. If we, as a committee, can conclude nothing else, it is surely - to state the blindingly obvious - that the Department ought to have been informed and that the Garda Síochána Act 2005 ought to have been complied with...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: The information was known in 2008 and the Department was not told.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Waters okay with that? Should he be in that chair? Is he okay with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: There is a report to testify to that. The only person who talks openly about this is Mr. Barry McGee, who wrote the report in 2008. Nobody else knew anything. It is astonishing.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the position of Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan, and the virtual conveyor belt of crises that continue to engulf An Garda Síochána. It is no secret that public confidence in the Commissioner is in tatters. It is certainly not difficult to see why. The Commissioner has failed to tackle persistent malpractice and a...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is most uninspiring. The Taoiseach is treading the well worn path of Deputy Enda Kenny, a master of evasion who brought not taking decisions on Garda reform to the level of a higher art. Two things have been established and they are not in dispute. The first fact accepted by everyone, including the Garda Commissioner, is that she failed to comply with the Garda Síochána Act...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have given the Taoiseach two established facts of failure in respect of Templemore that revolve directly around the serving Commissioner under her watch. What is he going to do about that?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is pathetic.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am on the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: And the Commissioner remains in place. That is astonishing.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The trial of Ibrahim Halawa was delayed again last month for the 24th time and has now been rescheduled for 4 July. By that stage Ibrahim will have been almost four years in Egyptian prisons and the impact of this on his physical and mental health has been enormous. The Government's diplomatic efforts thus far have been deeply disappointing and totally inadequate. In a letter written to...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach report back on it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: You nearly missed me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. That would not be like you. The concern in respect of the DUP and any agreement that party might strike with the Tories is that it might contain things that would undermine the Good Friday Agreement. That is not only a concern of ours; it is broadly held, but such a deal has not been struck. Certainly, we made it clear in our meeting with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I think it is marvellous. Is that not the objective of a free and independent Ireland - to be free from Westminster?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Actually that was the basis on which the first Dáil was established.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Test the election-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are listening with bated breath.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I asked about the Single Market; never mind Hugh Grant.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I asked about the customs union.