Results 8,321-8,340 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The European Parliament resolution is much better. We agree on that point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, I do not accept the Taoiseach's logic regarding Ireland, the North and his points on Gibraltar. They are different situations, but I still regard-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am well aware of that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----but that does not in any way relieve the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I accept it. Of course I know that Gibraltar, the North and the Irish situation are different. For goodness sake, talk about a statement of the obvious. The Taoiseach cannot be relieved in the way that he has sought of the responsibility that he carries to attain maximum negotiating leverage in respect of the rights and interests of all of Ireland, including the North.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that the Taoiseach has arrived at that position.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will debate that again, I am sure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not diverting anything.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am responding to the gibberish that I had to endure for the past couple of minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: If we cannot agree on much else, we all accept that Brexit is a major threat to the economies on this island. A weekend report in The Sunday Business Postclaimed that the Government was afraid that Irish companies would relocate to Britain to avoid tariffs and currency risks. It also claimed to have received a series of internal Government documents under freedom of information request that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bit late.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The EU Council guidelines published last Friday reveal what I believe to have been a failure by the Government to stand up for Irish interests. Article 11 deals with the island of Ireland, the peace process and the North, and it is vague and conditional. It contracts starkly with Article 22, which deals with Spain and Gibraltar and gives a determining say to Spain on whether any trade deal...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the section of the programme for Government on creating a healthy Ireland, the Government commits to updating the national eye care plan, including an evaluation of the Sligo model for cataract surgery. Anyone who read the account of 87 year old Agnes O'Connor in The Irish Timesthis morning will have been outraged by the failure of the health system to treat her eye deterioration properly...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In case I missed something, is this a dispute over timing? What is in the difference?
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Half an hour. I thought I was hearing things.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are exhausting this time discussing a difference of half an hour - very productive.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Half an hour.