Results 14,641-14,660 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She failed to offer, when it mattered, any protection to Maurice McCabe.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She failed to act and to offer any meaningful protection to Maurice McCabe when it mattered.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She had sight and knowledge of this malicious legal strategy and-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----for reasons that she needs to outline, she looked the other way. In fact, it was worse than that because she continued consistently to give political support and cover to the architect, or one of the architects, of that legal strategy, Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan. The Tánaiste picked her side and she certainly was not on Maurice McCabe's side.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Her fairy tales about not remembering the email or not reading it cut absolutely no ice. She failed as Minister for Justice and Equality.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She failed to protect the integrity of that office.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: She failed Maurice McCabe and it is now abundantly clear that it is time for the Tánaiste to go.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Bluff and bluster.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste failed to act.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government makes numerous commitments to older people, empowering women, protecting children and young people and equality and inclusiveness. It appears that when it comes to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries all of these worthy commitments go out the window. Following a comprehensive investigation into the administration of the Magdalen restorative justice scheme,...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: After a week of the Taoiseach dithering and scrambling for cover, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald has done the honourable thing. She has taken the honourable course and finally resigned as Tánaiste. We have had a week of the Taoiseach and the leader of Fianna Fáil desperately conniving to sidestep or avoid genuine accountability. Today, at last, we now have the right outcome but it...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No doubt the Taoiseach has studied the documentation clearly. As a matter of fact, there was an email from gardaí to the Department. Whatever about that-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: If I can point out to the Fine Gael benches, I am merely demonstrating that the Taoiseach, I hope inadvertently, has misled the House again and I am correcting the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: For those who have not read the documents which were released, perhaps they might take the trouble to do so and then come at this from an informed position. The net point I put to the Taoiseach relates to the issue of the withholding of documents from the Charleton tribunal. That is not just a matter of sloppy practice or an administrative error, it is a breach of the law. I want to know...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Carried out by whom?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: By whom will it be carried out?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why did the Minister not order it?
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I return to the external review which the Taoiseach has said he will establish of the withholding of documentation from the Charleton tribunal by the Department of Justice and Equality. Under whose auspices will the review be established? Who will be responsible for it? Will it require legislation to be brought before the Dáil? Has a criminal complaint been considered in respect of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The victims of the conflict have been very much in our thoughts in recent weeks and I, too, commend the Taoiseach for his attendance at the cenotaph in Enniskillen to commemorate the attack in which 12 innocent lives had been claimed. He may be familiar with the documentary "No Stone Unturned" which was made by Mr. Alex Gibney about the killing of six men in Loughinisland in 1994. It...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will try to be brief. Am I right in saying that additional resources of €900,000, in addition to the €5 million, have been allocated to this unit? Perhaps the Taoiseach will clarify that. I share the concerns articulated about the blurring of the distinction between what might rightly be considered a straight information campaign and straying into matters that might be...