Results 20,421-20,440 of 21,307 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----on 2 November to unguaranteed bondholders-----

Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----rising to a total of €2 billion next January?

Flood Relief (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question : To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to make a statement on the effects of yesterday's flooding across the capital and to outline the Department's response.

Flood Relief (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join with other colleagues in offering sincere sympathies to the families of Garda Ciaran Jones and the young Filipino woman who lost her life in this tragedy. I do not know whether the Minister of State has seen the film "Groundhog Day". It is a film in which a repetitious cycle of the same day is played endlessly. That is really what the situation is like. In my constituency, all...

Waste Management (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 10: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans to restructure the waste management market; and his plans to place control on the market with local authorities. [30318/11]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts: Dormant Accounts (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 30: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of account holders or next of kin who have reclaimed dormant funds during each of the past six years; and the amount of money reclaimed during each of those years. [30317/11]

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has made much of the fast-tracking of legislative items to meet the demands of the troika. Will it afford the same priority to the protection of workers' rights? Specifically, when will it bring before the Dáil the industrial relations (amendment) Bill and the temporary agency workers Bill?

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Too right it is not.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach ducked and dived as he tried to explain away the Government's inaction in respect of the 950 job losses at Aviva. Following yesterday's briefing, workers at Aviva are still in the dark and fearful for their jobs. It is not clear whether the redundancies will be voluntary or compulsory. The Government has done a great deal of talking about jobs but the only action...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps the Tánaiste can enlighten the House on why the Government has not directly intervened with Aviva management. Why has it not moved to secure these jobs? Does it intend simply to let 1,000 jobs, and possibly more, haemorrhage from this economy with no Government response or action?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is all very laudable.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's response to the loss of jobs at TalkTalk and Aviva has been milk and water, to say the least.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: It strikes me that if the Government is not in a position to protect existing jobs, its capacity to create new work has to be questioned. The Tánaiste correctly said the workers have been treated despicably by management. I am glad he acknowledged that. Their union, Unite, has made it clear that the workforce is willing to consider any other cost-cutting plans. In other words, the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: A passive engagement from the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and others with management is not enough and neither is tea and sympathy for workers.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want the Tánaiste to tell the House what precisely he, as Minister with responsibility for trade and investment, and his Government colleagues will do in the next 24 to 48 hours to ensure these jobs are not lost.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: What does that mean?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is that the Tánaiste's message to the Aviva workers?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not being smart. I am very angry about this.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: How can these jobs be saved?