Results 8,481-8,500 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: As has Deputy Farrell's entire speech.
- Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
- Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is in fierce bad form. That is too bad. This is not all about him. It is news to me that he threatened to injunct the Committee of Public Accounts. Shame on him if that is the case. I suppose that mirrors the approach and the attitude he displayed this evening. Quite frankly, I could not give a curse what his view is of Sinn Féin. I do take exception to him levelling...
- Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: He needs to put his comments on the record.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is agreement among all of us that the issue at stake is the implementation of agreements previously signed. The position taken by Sinn Féin, to insist that matters agreed are delivered, is not a form of grandstanding, nor is it a case of Sinn Féin bickering or presenting a Sinn Féin wish list. It is Sinn Féin insisting on something that is the very basis of good...
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Speculate as we might, the facts of this particular fiasco are not in dispute - more than 14,500 unsafe convictions and close on 1 million fake breathalyser tests. There is one thing the Tánaiste could do that would more than anything restore public confidence and send a very clear message that there is accountability, namely, she could call the Garda Commissioner to account. Her...
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why did the internal audit function not do something as basic as that?
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We cannot.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This will come to a vote so we need the Ceann Comhairle's guidance. He needs to tell us how we can get this matter on the agenda for today. This cannot be beyond his wit or ingenuity. As Deputy O'Brien said, we made the request on Saturday that there be a statement and an opportunity for questions. That is clearly what needs to happen. The Ceann Comhairle should advise us on how that...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: On the same issue, everybody in the House is not ad idemon the issue of accountability because the Government, on the one hand, refuses to hold the Commissioner to account in the way it should and, equally, the Tánaiste is not being held to account in this House. That is an intolerable situation. The Taoiseach mentioned that the Tánaiste is to take a Topical Issue matter but that...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Precisely.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is clutching at straws. It is most unedifying.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a disgrace.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolute rubbish. Do your job.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody believes that.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The game is up. This is an absolute mess. Thousands of unsafe convictions, 1 million fabricated breath tests and the serious questions that therefore arise over any data, statistics or information produced by An Garda Síochána. The entire controversy undermines the very integrity of An Garda Síochána and flies in the face of what citizens expect from their policing...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This really is a disgraceful and astonishing turn of events. The Taoiseach should not try to hide behind the good work of gardaí on the beat right across the country. Very clearly, what is at issue here is the management and leadership within An Garda Síochána. We have heard many times the story about reform that the Taoiseach told again today. At this stage, with yet...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We should consider the scale of it.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Over recent days we have heard of yet another controversy surrounding the management and operations of An Garda Síochána. We have heard of 14,700 unsafe convictions for motoring offences and almost 1 million breath tests recorded on the PULSE system that were never carried out. This is simply another episode of scandal surrounding An Garda Síochána. Perhaps we should...