Results 521-540 of 21,499 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Robust opposition.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not preach the Constitution having done what you did. Spare us the homily, Micheál.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a reflection on you, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, you have not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. The Opposition.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Like what?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go away with you.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. An absolute disgrace.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not correct. That is nonsense.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Try as you may wish, Taoiseach, with all the tools of deflection, there was one person and one side of the House that undermined democracy yesterday and it was the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, you get to defend your rights as a Government. You have assembled your Government between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Lowry Independents. That is your prerogative - I absolutely recognise that - but you do not get to put together the Opposition.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the point. The most basic rule of the functioning of this place is the distinction between the Government exercising its prerogatives and the Opposition holding it robustly to account. You do not like accountability, Micheál Martin - cry me a river, because you will be held to account. The other basic necessity is the independence and absolute impartiality of the Ceann...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sure we saw it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not false.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The brazen stroke engineered by the Taoiseach yesterday represents an unprecedented sabotaging of the democracy of the Dáil. This mess is entirely of the Government's making-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the chaos that unfolded in this Chamber is a response to the Taoiseach running roughshod over the democratic functioning of the Dáil to suit his own agenda and to protect his grubby deal with Michael Lowry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: A deal so important to the self-serving political interests of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, that he moves heaven and earth to allow Deputy Lowry and his group of TDs to be both in Government and Opposition at the same time. Of course, this plan is of mutual benefit. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael seek to blunt the Opposition and dodge accountability. Michael Lowry and his crew seek a...