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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (19 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce an amendment to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to give effect to the programme for Government commitment to retain a State pension age from January 2021 of 66; and if so, when the amending legislation will be introduced. [37461/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (19 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal mechanism by which she plans to defer the planned increase in the State pension age from January 2021. [37468/20]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that the courage and resilience shown by the family of Pat Finucane in their battle with the British state is inspirational. Pat Finucane was killed in February 1989 by a UDA death squad working in collusion with RUC special branch, the British Army's force reconnaissance unit and the British state. For three decades, like so many others, the family have...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that. From day one, as he knows, the British Government has resisted revealing the truth on the killing of Pat Finucane. In 2012, his wife, Geraldine, said: At every turn, dead witnesses have been blamed and defunct agencies found wanting. Serving personnel and active state departments appear to have been excused. The dirt has been swept under the carpet...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The criteria are all about process. One cannot have a process without them.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: It does not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do your job, Taoiseach.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed. There are serious and pressing questions that need to be put to the Minister for Justice and clarified on the floor of the Dáil. The Taoiseach's overarching objective in the midst of all of this has been to evade, spoof and deny that accountability to the Dáil. The fact that the Minister will not make herself available to make a statement and take questions is...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----on the floor of the Dáil. It raises questions beyond the particular appointment and this particular scenario. It raises questions around what the Taoiseach might be trying to hide. More fundamentally, is this a manoeuvre by the Government to ensure that accountability will be stymied and stifled in every set of circumstances? It will not get away with that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not smart or acceptable. The Opposition is united on this. I ask that the Minister for Justice present herself, make a statement and take questions. It is a straightforward request.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not funny.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is deliberately misleading the House again.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then why was the position held open until July?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, they are not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Rubbish.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: We know that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are well aware of all that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is waffle, a Cheann Comhairle, and dangerous waffle.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)
Mary Lou McDonald: Oh, you are some piece of work.