Results 20,181-20,200 of 21,306 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: It promised to protect the poor and to bring accountability to the top. It is in this critical test that the Government had its greatest failure. We saw yesterday that its proposed nominee to the European Court of Auditors has been rejected by a European Parliament committee. The Tánaiste should not have proceeded with that nomination and should now withdraw it. He should realise that...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have mentioned no name. We need accountability at the top. I ask the Tánaiste whether he will recognise and accept this reality belatedly by withdrawing the nomination.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: If we are to understand the Tánaiste, despite his bluster and rhetoric-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Deputies do not mind-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is my opportunity to speak without interruption.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's Government is the one that broke its own guidelines on capping pay for its special advisers. That is on the record. His Government still allows senior civil servants to walk away with bonanza pension pots. His Government, and he in particular, gets very rattled at the very prospect that a senior civil servant might be called to account in this Dáil. He claims his nominee...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Tánaiste again whether he will pull the plug on the nomination. Will he live up to his promise of accountability within the public service? Will he allow the public to be confident that, at last, the political system will have one rule and one standard for all the people and not cosset those at the very top?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: They were paid off.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: We did that.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach certainly has his work cut out for him.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated increase in the total number of recipients of social welfare payments next year. [36256/11]

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (23 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the current spending cuts for 2012 include the spending cuts carry forward of €400 million from budget 2011. [36395/11]

Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the importance of the role played by universal child benefit in tackling child poverty to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36255/11]

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (22 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the consideration he has given to developing a job retention scheme for viable business to keep workers in employment rather than join the live register. [35947/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (22 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 89: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the private rental properties leased by him; the location of each property; the annual value of each lease; if each lease is subject to an upward only rent clause; and the name of the landlord in tabular form. [35498/11]

Written Answers — Civil Service Staff: Civil Service Staff (22 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 95: To ask the Taoiseach the number of former Secretaries General in receipt of public sector pensions whilst currently employed in a public body and or State agency. [35791/11]

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (22 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual salary awarded to a person (details supplied) recently appointed special adviser to the Minister for Finance; if the salary exceeds the special adviser pay cap; and if so, did he sign off on the salary. [35723/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (22 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 356: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he has taken in his capacity with oversight and responsibility for public expenditure to ensure that local authority county managers are subject to the same new pay and pension terms as Secretaries General. [35186/11]

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: This culture fostered cosy relations with vested interests, big business and those with the big bucks and it spread beyond any single party and corrupted the entire political system. The confidence of citizens has been utterly shattered. To this day, we still have a situation in which the Judiciary is made up of those appointed by, and close to, Government. They are seen by citizens as an...

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Corrupt politicians and those who have fiddled over-generous expenses regimes have not been held to account. All this needs to change.