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Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----they come from the Fine Gael general election manifesto and comprise that party's reflections on the lousy legacy left by its friends in Fianna Fáil, now on the Opposition benches.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the sustainability of the so-called bailout. Yesterday, despite what the Taoiseach stated in the Chamber this morning, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, performed yet another of the U-turns for which the Government is fast becoming famous. He informed Members that he now is backing down on Fine Gael's stated and hyped demand for a reduction in the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in her bid for the top job at the IMF, Ms Lagarde has shown very little regard for the position in Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 11 March, the Taoiseach set out his stall in a bullish fashion at EU level in respect of corporation tax. I remind him that on 15 March, he told the Dáil that a cut in the interest rate had been secured.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 23 March, the Minister for Finance reiterated this point.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here is my question.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: If I may pose it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no point in the Taoiseach crying over how unfair is the world.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach raise the issue of the interest rate reduction for all of the deal? More importantly, will the Taoiseach urge our European colleagues to finally look in the eye the issue of the unsustainability of the debt burden and take measures to resolve that issue, which is at the core of our problems?

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am beginning to suspect that the ten years of the bailout agreement will have run out and the Taoiseach will still be coming in here telling us that he will do the business on the interest rate.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach continually refuses to deal with the issue of burden-sharing, an issue which he was very keen on during the election campaign. Last week, senior unsecured and unguaranteed bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank were paid in full for a bond of €200 million. At the same time, the Government was running around looking for €100 million in respect of the fair deal scheme to give some...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the penny drop with the Taoiseach and his colleagues that the issue of the private debt with which the State has been burdened must be dealt with? He correctly said that other member states act in their national interest.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well done to the Taoiseach for figuring that out; the challenge for him is to act in the interest of this State and its citizens and so far, he and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, have abjectly failed in that task.

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance the evidence base used to calculate the assumptions on which the projected return to the bond markets in 2012 and 2013 is based. [14230/11]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance the assumptions on which the projected return to the bond markets in 2012 and 2013 is based. [14229/11]

Written Answers — Wage-setting Mechanisms: Wage-setting Mechanisms (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he is considering in conjunction with the Department of Finance and the Department of Education and Skills to counterbalance the negative impact of abolishing or changing joint labour committee wage agreements for students working part-time at weekends who rely on their current rates of pay to fund rental...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the damning criticism of the State's failure to protect women who were detained and abused in the Magdalene laundries. This criticism is contained in the United Nations Committee Against Torture report on Ireland. As many as 30,000 women passed through these laundries in the period from 1922 to 1996. The women were held as prisoners and forced to work without pay. They...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The State's contention in respect of these women is that they were in the laundries voluntarily and that the State has no liability or responsibility on the basis that these were private institutions. The State has not acquitted itself well, whatever the recommendation from the UN. The State has failed these women. This is not a new issue; the matter of the women in the Magdalene laundries...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I seek a more concrete commitment from the Taoiseach. The women await an apology; the women await acknowledgment; and the women and their families await the lifting of the awful and degrading taboo they have carried with them. They also await a measure of compensation. The State excluded these women from previous redress mechanisms. Now is the moment for the apology, the acknowledgement...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: When does the Taoiseach expect that to happen?