Results 6,701-6,720 of 21,404 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- 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-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: If I can point out to the Fine Gael benches, I am merely demonstrating that the Taoiseach, I hope inadvertently, has misled the House again and I am correcting the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: For those who have not read the documents which were released, perhaps they might take the trouble to do so and then come at this from an informed position. The net point I put to the Taoiseach relates to the issue of the withholding of documents from the Charleton tribunal. That is not just a matter of sloppy practice or an administrative error, it is a breach of the law. I want to know...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: After a week of the Taoiseach dithering and scrambling for cover, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald has done the honourable thing. She has taken the honourable course and finally resigned as Tánaiste. We have had a week of the Taoiseach and the leader of Fianna Fáil desperately conniving to sidestep or avoid genuine accountability. Today, at last, we now have the right outcome but it...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Data (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 79. To ask the Taoiseach the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49943/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards Data (28 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable candidates, in tabular form. [50005/17]