Results 8,681-8,700 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"? It sounds like a "No".
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach answer "Yes" or "No"?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The coalition agreement of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, a copy of which I have here, states that the Government will legislate for the abolition of water charges if that is the position of the Oireachtas but the Minister, Deputy Coveney, it seems, has set his face against this. He said that he will breach the process he established and he will not - I emphasise he will not - legislate to...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The wilful waste of water is the fault of the infrastructure and successive Governments, of which the Taoiseach's party and his partners, the Fianna Fáil Party, have been lead exponents, and not, as suggested by the Taoiseach, the result of the population with wild abandon wilfully wasting water. This matter was settled last year at the ballot box. The democratic view of the people was...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Almost one year ago to the day, citizens went to the polls and voted in a general election. The majority of Deputies elected to this Dáil were elected clearly and comprehensively to end punitive water charging. That was the decision of the people. The Fianna Fáil Party, despite its ever shifting policy positions, also made this commitment. The expert commission on water services...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----by the front door or the back door. That is now the emerging view of the Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, which was set up to produce recommendations on this issue. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, established that process, which is drawing to a conclusion. At the time, the Minister stated he wanted to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (1 Mar 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 246. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an application to the primary care reimbursement service for the FreeStyle Libre system to be made available under the medical card and long-term illness scheme; when a decision will be reached on this application; and if he will ensure this device will be made available. [10532/17]
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that answer. I acknowledge, and let it be acknowledged, that the standards and the law protecting our children has become ever more robust over the years. I acknowledge also that the Taoiseach is establishing the commission of investigation and that the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, will bring forward the terms of reference for it, but there is the rub....
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I also say how sorry I was to hear of the passing of our former colleague, Peter Mathews? Peter was a gentleman to his fingertips. We extend our condolences to his wife, Susan, and to his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Earlier this morning the HSE published two reports into failures at a foster home in Waterford over the course of almost three decades. During...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last week the Dáil agreed the terms of reference for the tribunal of inquiry into the Maurice McCabe scandal and related matters. Can the Tánaiste tell us what progress has been made thus far in establishing the inquiry and providing the legal and other resources for Mr. Justice Charleton to begin his work? When does she anticipate the tribunal will sit? In response to my...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Tánaiste's reference to the Cabinet as "hospital" was not deliberate. Perhaps the chaos in both has been comparable in recent days. The only thing that is clear here is that the Tánaiste is continuing to equivocate on the matter of costs. Is she happy that the children's hospital, if and when it is completed, will be the most expensive children's hospital built...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking about the children's hospital and not about the airport.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should not be ridiculous.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: When?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So it will take another decade or two.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, the Tánaiste's remarks are not answers.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Tánaiste has not provided answers. We are getting used to this.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, parents across Ireland have woken up to the shocking fiasco of the spiralling costs of building the national children's hospital. They read this morning with horror that the situation has spun so far out of control that the estimated cost has ballooned from an initial €404 million in 2012 to a mind-boggling figure of more than €1 billion today. As it stands,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government makes a commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. Yesterday, decades of international consensus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute were summarily dumped by US President, Donald Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu. The consequences of this are potentially disastrous for the entire region. When will the Government make good its commitment?...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: This has been agreed by the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Government had better get its skates on.