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- Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are. They are utterly excessive, and the Minister knows it.
- Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not.
- Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Were the people I mentioned party people?
- Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will ask that question again.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share time with Deputy Martin Ferris.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I listened to speakers on the Government benches conceding the urgency of this matter, which is welcome because it is a matter of the utmost urgency. I am minded of the phrase, "God make me virtuous but just not now."
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, Acting Chairman. I knew you would know the reference.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The reality is that we would not be debating this matter but for the fact that Deputy Peadar TóibÃn tabled the Bill. With all due respect to the Minister and his colleagues-----
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: That makes it all the more shameful. The position of the JLCs has been discussed and debated for several years. There were a number of legal challenges. People who read the political and industrial relations tea leaves, as no doubt Deputy Keaveney did, were very well aware that the minimal protection was under assault from various employers and their organisations and bodies. It should...
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government contains a commitment to ending long-term homelessness and rough sleeping. It also states the Government believes in prevention rather than cure and promises to tackle aggressively the root causes of homelessness. Why have homeless charities been instructed to provide shelter only to local homeless people and not those from outside counties?
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is this Government policy?
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Deputy Rabbitte for his assistance.
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: A commitment was made in respect of the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The commitment was to tackle on-street homelessness and sleeping rough. When will the Government bring forward legislative initiatives to deal with it?
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nothing is promised.
- Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Tánaiste spell those out?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Tánaiste's eyes watered, as mine did, when he read reports that bonus payments to the tune of â¬925,000 had been received by executives at Anglo Irish Bank. While I accept the payments were not made on his watch, one individual at the bank is due to receive a payment of â¬51,000. I am sure that, like me and everyone else in the country, the Tánaiste is mystified at how...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: One payment of â¬51,000 is due. I do not accept the Tánaiste's argument which he has also used in respect of senior public servants, claiming he has to sit on his hands. I ask again what he will do about that payment. Twenty-two of the 50 senior personnel in Anglo Irish Bank are still within the bank. I reiterate for the Tánaiste, that of that 22, 19 take home a salary in excess of...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Deputy is not wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question about Anglo Irish Bank.