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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Acting Chairman did not stop other colleagues, but how and ever.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Acting Chairman did not. I watched very carefully.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I can actually read the clock-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----I am very gifted that way.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Acting Chairman, we can read the clock. I am numerate, you know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to place on record that far from being deferential to the Putin regime, I recognise its anti-democratic and authoritarian nature. I have no issue putting that on record. However, the issue at play in the actions taken by Government are not about Russia, in the first instance, they are about Ireland and Ireland's policy stance and particularly our position as a militarily neutral...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would be interested to hear the Taoiseach's answer to the previous questions. I wish to raise with the Taoiseach in as friendly a manner as I can, given apparently that is the ordre du jour, his remarks in respect of the withdrawal agreement at the European Council meeting last week. The Taoiseach stated - he may correct me if I am wrong - that he would rather have the right deal in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----in its failure to produce anything credible, workable and in legal text. The Disneyworld stuff around technological solutions has been dismissed at a European level, has been dismissed within the Dáil and is worthy of dismissal again, but it is a grave mistake to create an impression that we are fine about further delays until October. I actually agree with the Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Pardon?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Acting Chairman has only come in. Everybody has run over time on this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Everybody ran over time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the visit to the North?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, on 8 March 2018. [13850/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Far be it from me to interfere in the business of the Holy See and Pope Francis, and the point is well made that the separation of church and state is an essential part of any functioning, open and healthy democracy. In the remarks I will make, I do not intend to, and I hope I do not, blur that division. I want to raise, however, a point that has been made to me very strongly north of the...
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will be brief. I am assuming that the Tánaiste misspoke on this matter. I would like the Taoiseach to confirm that. If not, how on earth does the Government propose to insert into legislation something which clearly contravenes the Constitution? I would also like to know when the legislative package or the heads of Bill that the Government is considering today will be published and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department is involved in the planning for the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland in August 2018. [12935/18]
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I suggest to the Taoiseach that it is not sufficient that he selectively brief his colleagues in Fianna Fáil on such a major development. This story, the abhorrence of anybody using chemical weapons in any circumstances, and not least the attack itself have caused unease and disquiet. I do not think that anybody would argue but that the State and Government have to take action where...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the past hour, we heard of the Government's decision to expel a Russian diplomat because of the nerve agent attack in England. I absolutely agree with the Tánaiste's statement that the use of chemical weapons in any circumstances is wholly unacceptable. He is correct in that. I also fully understand the need to protect what is called national security, which is also correct. The...
- Death of former Ceann Comhairle: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Sinn Féin, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann agus cairde an iar-Cheann Comhairle, Seán Ó Treasaigh, a fuair bás ag an deireadh seachtaine. On my own behalf and on behalf of Sinn Féin, I extend sincere and heartfelt sympathies to the family, friends and, indeed, Labour Party colleagues of the former Ceann...
- Death of former Ceann Comhairle: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Mar 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.