Results 13,841-13,860 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Micheál Martin seems to have changed his tune on judicial appointments since last week. He seemed to be quite happy with the procedure that he enjoyed whereby he could just have a private tête-à-têtewith the Taoiseach on the relative merits of appointing-----
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----outside of any constitutional authority or any procedural regularity-----
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----that I am familiar with. Those of us who support this legislation support it on the basis of modernisation, public confidence and accountability. The authorship of the legislation ought to be a secondary matter for anybody who cares about judicial appointments. I wish to raise this Bill with the Taoiseach because I am concerned about the issue of timing.
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are now at the end of June and we will take Second Stage this week. Is it realistic to imagine that we will have all Stages of this legislation dealt with, allowing for amendment if Members so wish, and allowing the time and space for full consideration? I understand it is the Taoiseach's intention to have these matters dealt with before we rise for the recess. While Sinn Féin will...
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was 1998.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The concern specifically around the United States is not just the domestic policies pursued by this Administration but the global reach of the United States, which is unrivalled by the Cubans and the Venezuelans. The Taoiseach would accept that. It is very difficult to know where to start with the Trump Administration. On the one hand, people accept the reality that this man was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have absolutely no interest in the Taoiseach's analysis of the Bolsheviks, the Russian Revolution, the Wizard of Oz, his film choices or anything else. I asked a question about the undocumented Irish and I got precisely no answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That name has been withdrawn.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is the modus operandiof the cosy relationship across the floor. It is quite all right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have resigned myself to it. Is it true that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, threatened to pull the plug on the Taoiseach's Administration on the basis of the handling of the appointment to the Court of Appeal? Is it true that he threatened to pull the plug unless the Taoiseach guaranteed that the judicial appointments legislation would go through the Houses...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Am I to take it from that response that whereas the threat to bring down the Government was not made directly to the Taoiseach, it was, in fact, made to another Minister?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach ascertained or established with his colleagues if there was a threat to bring the Government down? That is what I am asking.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a rather standout piece of gossip.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (27 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will try to say this as moderately as I can in order to allay the fears of some. Will the Taoiseach explain to me the basis of his statement at last week's Council meeting to the effect that the British might change their mind on leaving the customs union. Was that just him thinking out loud or was it based on something he had picked up from the British or heard from one of the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raise with the Taoiseach the latest debacle surrounding bin charges. Yesterday, the Cabinet agreed a scheme that will bring to an end the flat rate charge and introduce a system that will undoubtedly result in householders paying much more in waste collection charges. This move is a telling demonstration of the political gimmick that is new politics, which is nothing but the same old...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach wash his hands and walk away from this mess? What will he do for people who cannot afford these additional charges and have been left to the whim of private operators?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I should probably thank the Taoiseach for his open and shut commitment to market forces and unapologetic presentation of the privatised model. I am astonished by his absolute lack of empathy or understanding for many citizens who, having heard this news, are now panicked and fearful of the charges they will face. The Taoiseach seems to live in another place where inability to pay does not...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will put them on to the Taoiseach's office.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will send them up to Blanchardstown. It is only a stone's throw from Cabra.