Results 6,441-6,460 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----but such is the tragedy of it. We are in an emergency situation. Will the Government accept this and do something about it?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Tánaiste. I do not for one second misunderstand the issue of the veto or how it might be deployed. I do not gainsay it either because I have seen myself the sense of solidarity at the European level. I do not believe that the Tánaiste or any Deputies should miss the clear impatience in some circles to move on to phase two. My concern arises around the position of the...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are now fast approaching the critical meeting of the European Council to discuss the next stage of the Brexit negotiations. At this point in the process, the Government has maximum leverage and may avail of a veto to secure the best comprehensive deal in our national interests. There is an effort in the British press and by the Tories to bounce us into some kind of vague, cobbled...
- Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a personal level, I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and the incoming Minister, Deputy Madigan, on their new portfolios and I say comhghairdeas to Deputy Coveney on his elevation to the position of Tánaiste. The Taoiseach now has a very strong Cork flavour to his Government. In addition to the Tánaiste, we have the Minister, Deputy Creed; the Minister of State,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Just in a more thoughtful way, we need to consider this business of draft reports and the inappropriateness of their being circulated, or the refusal to circulate them on the basis that they are drafts and therefore not the completed work. Ordinarily, that makes absolute sense, of course - one wants the finished product and not work in progress - but it is different if a controversy arises...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not want to delay things but I am sure everyone saw the "Prime Time" programme and the serious issues it raised. They are issues which for the most part will need to be dealt with in the Oireachtas through the health committee and on the floor of the Dáil and Seanad. I was struck by the issue of the spending of public money on consultant contracts. There was a suggestion that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do they have to speak in private session?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of course. That is fine.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a person (details supplied) ceased employment as the Health Service Executive's assistant national director for older persons. [51263/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (30 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the year, name and location of the public nursing homes that have closed each year from 2005 to 2013, respectively, in tabular form [51411/17]
- Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is hardly alleged.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not sure whether I am to ask something relating to the current question or another question. I do not know whether the Taoiseach answered the question regarding polling date, focus groups and his strategic communications unit, whether that matter falls within the unit's remit and whether or it has commissioned that kind of research. The Taoiseach might shed some light on that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will try to be brief. Am I right in saying that additional resources of €900,000, in addition to the €5 million, have been allocated to this unit? Perhaps the Taoiseach will clarify that. I share the concerns articulated about the blurring of the distinction between what might rightly be considered a straight information campaign and straying into matters that might be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The victims of the conflict have been very much in our thoughts in recent weeks and I, too, commend the Taoiseach for his attendance at the cenotaph in Enniskillen to commemorate the attack in which 12 innocent lives had been claimed. He may be familiar with the documentary "No Stone Unturned" which was made by Mr. Alex Gibney about the killing of six men in Loughinisland in 1994. It...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I return to the external review which the Taoiseach has said he will establish of the withholding of documentation from the Charleton tribunal by the Department of Justice and Equality. Under whose auspices will the review be established? Who will be responsible for it? Will it require legislation to be brought before the Dáil? Has a criminal complaint been considered in respect of...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why did the Minister not order it?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Carried out by whom?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: By whom will it be carried out?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No doubt the Taoiseach has studied the documentation clearly. As a matter of fact, there was an email from gardaí to the Department. Whatever about that-----