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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...

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.