Results 20,341-20,360 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the view of many people.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has blown his credibility to deal with the urgent reform needed in the system. We will not support this Bill.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will not stand by a system that cushions the highly paid-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and punishes those on low wages.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are not saying that.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Our party follows an abstentionist policy at Westminster. Newsflash.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: My colleagues do not receive salaries.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: According to the Labour Party's general election manifesto, our country's best days are yet to come. It was not enough to wish for a better future. The party told us that polling day offered people an opportunity to come together and make a decision for change. The general election of February last was to be about real, transformative change that would bring about the kind of Ireland we...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Before dealing with the legislation, it is important to comment on the manner in which this Bill is being put through the House today. This is not the first time legislation has been rushed through the House by the Minister. This practice, which is particularly associated with the Fianna Fáil Party and the Progressive Democrats, is bad. It is also bad for the democratic process. Indeed,...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----officeholders and senior public servants is a display of weakness-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and protectionism of the worst kind.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I support the Government's proposal to break the link between the Ombudsman and An Bord Pleanála chairpersons' salaries and a High Court judge thus enabling the Minister to set those at a more realistic rate. However, revised downward salaries must be applied to those who hold these positions currently. I repeat that we are in crisis. The dogs in the street know it. If Government can...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The retiring Secretary General of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Sean Gorman, who is 59 years old, will get an annual pension of â¬126,000 but only after he gets a total pension payout of â¬634,087. Brigid McManus is due to retire from her position of Secretary General in the Department of Education and Skills, a young woman at 53 years old.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: She will receive an annual pension pot of â¬114,000 and she is entitled to a whopping â¬445,656 pay-off on her retirement. To her credit, she has indicated that she will wave her special severance payment but let us be honest-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----she should not be eligible for that payment in the first instance.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The former Secretary General at the Department of the Taoiseach set the trend-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----with a pension pot of â¬713,000, and all of that happened on the Minister's watch.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Fianna Fáil Party may have filled the trough but the Minister is happy for the high rollers to continue feeding from it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister could rescind special severance gratuity payments and added years but he chose not to-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and hiding behind the Top Level Appointments Committee, TLAC, and the courts does not wash. Former taoisigh receive eye-watering pensions year after year, despite some of them still earning big money in the private sector. I refer to John Bruton, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, Albert Reynolds and Dick Spring. All of them earn pensions of between approximately â¬120,000 up to approximately...