Results 6,701-6,720 of 21,647 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you so much. I ask the Taoiseach for a timeframe within which the recommendations will be delivered on. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I will now resume my seat. I thank him for him courtesy.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does that make it okay?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking legitimate questions. I would prefer to be in here raising a different issue but we are not. For all the guff about new politics, is this where we are at, with the gold-plated few having access to Ministers and, in part, given the heads-up on decisions the Minister has taken? What way is that to conduct politics? I very much hope the Minister will present himself this evening....
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am saying, if I am correct, that the meeting in 2016 occurred on 12 November.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is on record as suggesting, in answer to a question in the House, that he had not taken a decision at that stage. All this is extremely troubling and worrying.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not accept the position of the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, that this is simply a matter for the courts.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is true that it is a matter for the courts on points of law but the conduct of one of his Ministers is a matter for him and the entire Dáil.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is a very troubling story which, undoubtedly, raises questions for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, about his discussion with a person acting on behalf of INM in connection with the attempt to take over Celtic Media. This all happened in November 2016. The Minister gave advance notice to the PR executive, acting on behalf of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with Chancellor Angela Merkel on 20 March 2018. [14007/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach the foreign visits he plans to undertake to the end of June 2018. [16168/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach stated that the aim of the committee is to protect the most vulnerable. I would like to return to the issue of housing and homelessness, which was raised in the previous batch of questions, because I think we can agree that those without a roof over their heads - individuals and families in homelessness - are among the most vulnerable. I understand the Minister for Housing,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach promising a summer?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B - social policy and public services - last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15859/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Other speakers have mentioned the real distress and pressure the ongoing fodder crisis is causing. Farmers are paying at least double the normal cost of feed which is an unbearable pressure for them. It is a scandalous situation. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine met in emergency session last week but the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A - economy last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15858/18]
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the National Women's Council of Ireland raised very serious concerns in response to a report demonstrating that An Garda Síochána had been overstating the number of sexual offences reported by 26% in 2003 and by 6% overall for the 14 years up to 2016. The National Women's Council of Ireland described the system-wide shortfall of data collection and analysis by State...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has been done before and it was allowed.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: The view for many people is that powerful politicians in and out of Government in the State have stood off and even courted very powerful interests within the media. I think the Taoiseach will agree with me that that is a very dangerous perception, never mind the reality of it. I agree with him that the ODCE needs to be assisted in doing its work and I challenge the Taoiseach to put his...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: That, too, tells where the Taoiseach's balance of consideration and emphasis lies. I will put the question to the Taoiseach again. There is a request for four additional staff places. He has indicated difficulties in recruitment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to hear solidly from the Taoiseach his concrete proposals to beef up the resourcing and staff complement of that office.