Results 20,221-20,240 of 21,525 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Someone should put words in the Taoiseach's mouth.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I object to the rushed passage of the Bill which will cut the contributory State pension and allowances for lone parents.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have not even dealt with the manner in which the Government proposes to devastate community employment schemes across the State. Job creation, how are you? I object to the manner in which the Bill is being processed through the House and the indecent haste with which the Government is prepared to butcher â¬800 million from the social welfare bill.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is astonishing that the Labour Party and the Tánaiste as its leader are standing over such cuts.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is bad enough, but the Government is also insisting on the Bill being rushed through the Dáil.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: In a full year it is.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment received and gross...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Departments currently undergoing a review by the organisational review programme; the date on which each Departmental report is due to be concluded; and when the reports' findings will be publicly available. [39280/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment received and gross...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment received and gross annual pension...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment received and gross...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 68: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the remuneration the former Secretaries General (details supplied) receive regarding board membership. [39278/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment received and gross annual pension payment....
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the Government Department from which they retired; the date of retirement, name, age at retirement, gross lump sum received, gross special severance gratuity payment received and gross...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share time with Deputies Ellis, McLellan and Nulty.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I find it beyond ironic that this measure is entitled the Social Welfare Bill. If words were to mean anything it should be renamed the social hardship Bill. It is all the more reprehensible that a Minister who, it seems to me, has made it her personal crusade to target people on welfare and accuse them of making lifestyle choices, is the same Minister - and one of a cohort in this...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me give one example, which concerns a meals-on-wheels service in Glasnevin. Their training and materials budget will be slashed from â¬24,000 to â¬11,500 per year. They cannot function on that basis. Others have told me of circumstances where the money the Minister wished to allocate to them for their number of participants will not even cover their insurance. They cannot function...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the former Revenue Commissioners in receipt of pensions; the names of the recipients; and the amount they receive from the pensions on an annual basis in tabular form. [38636/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Dec 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether public service pension reduction will be applied to the combined annual amount of ministerial and Oireachtas pensions of former individual office holders or if the reduction applied separately to each of the two annual pension figures. [38637/11]