Results 21,041-21,060 of 21,307 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the State's role in referring women and children to the Magdalene laundries. [15706/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is his view that the State's refusal to apologise for its role in referring women to the Magdalene laundries has impeded restorative justice for survivors of the laundries. [15727/11]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 558: To ask the Minister for Health if the signed service level agreement 2010 for an organisation (details supplied) included a value for money audit; and the date on which he expects to receive the requested report on the chief executive's remuneration package. [15819/11]

Order of Business (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the announcement by Government of the setting up of an interdepartmental committee to deal with the issue of the Magdalene laundries. I also understand the Cabinet is to consider the United Nations report in respect of the victims of those institutions. Will the Taoiseach indicate when the Cabinet review will be made public and brought before the House? I also seek an assurance...

Written Answers — Wage-setting Mechanisms: Wage-setting Mechanisms (9 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a detailed account of his or his officials' discussions with Commissioner Olli Rehn and his officials on the issue of the reform of joint labour committees and registered employment agreements. [14716/11]

Business Regulation (9 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if any final proposals for joint labour commission and registered employment agreements reform require the approval of the EU, ECB and or IMF before being enacted. [14717/11]

Written Answers — Traveller Community: Traveller Community (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the statistics which show that only one in every ten children from the Traveller community who enrols in school goes on to complete his or her post-primary education; and, in view of these statistics, his plans to address this crisis. [14459/11]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional measures he intends to introduce to tackle the increasing numbers of second level students attaining low grades in mathematics, science and technology, as detailed by a European Commission report published in April 2011. [14460/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received signed service level agreements from a group (details supplied); if not, the actions he will take against the group; when the group will make available its full financial statements, including the remuneration packages of the groups of directors, to the Government; if he deems the current remuneration package of the group chief...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not have any sense of urgency from the Taoiseach in regard to this matter. I never had him chalked down as the shy, retiring, shrinking violet type, so I do not think it was this that led to his failure to raise this matter directly with the British Prime Minister. The Taoiseach said he discussed the bigger implications of the bailout deal. Did he discuss the issue of burden sharing,...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach last week told Irish diplomatic staff to go back to their posts internationally and tell everybody the happy news - not - that the Irish people will continue to bail out bankers, speculators and people who gambled and lost. He was not shy about setting out that message - a bad message, as far as I am concerned. At what point, then, does the Taoiseach engage the British Prime...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a time to be shy. When will the Taoiseach raise this with the British Prime Minister? Will he put the issues of burden sharing and debt on the agenda?

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I am sure the Taoiseach's homage to the US President was appreciated, albeit with nothing like the utter gratitude of Fianna Fáil for the Government's pursuit of its policy agenda. I am more interested in what the Taoiseach might have told President Obama about his attitude to burning senior bondholders. I pursued the Taoiseach...

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I invite the Taoiseach to answer the question. What is his position with regard to the senior bondholders?

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I referred to Anglo Irish Bank.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The point has been made that the range of issues to be covered by the committees is such that, even aside from the issue of accountability which is critical, the capacity of them to act efficiently and really deal with the issues at hand is compromised. We object to the fact that these matters are to be decided without debate. I want to raise in particular the issue of the Committee of...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government, very cynically and inappropriately, slipped the reversal of the cut in the minimum wage into social welfare legislation, presumably to give some cover to Labour Party Deputies-----

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----who will vote for an increase in the pension age. It was reduced in a finance Bill and all of us know it should be re-instated through that same mechanism. That is the cynical politics it is at. To add to that, it wants to guillotine the debate on it.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: So much for honesty, transparency, telling it like it is and allowing full and frank debate.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to read something to the Taoiseach, which states: The IMF-EU bailout deal has not and will not restore investor confidence in our country, and must therefore be renegotiated to reduce the interest rate and to ensure a fairer sharing of the cost of fixing Ireland's broken banks. The current deal is bad for Ireland - and bad for Europe The Taoiseach of course recognises those words...