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Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister might raise his concerns regarding welfare recipients in the North with the Tory Government. He might also raise the issue of partition. That would be a helpful thing if his concerns are genuine. I am fully conversant with the facts in this scenario. It is the Minister who turns his head away from the very simple fact that the proposed increases for Deputies, Ministers, the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know, and the Minister should know, that there is no public tolerance at this time, when a fiver is given to pensioners amidst great fanfare and €2.70 is afforded to young people out of work, for so-called political leaders having the brass iron neck to suggest our generous salaries and the Minister's generous salary should be hiked up again.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Government is not prepared to legislate on this matter, will the Minister, his ministerial colleagues and others, including on the Fianna Fáil and Labour Party benches, support the Sinn Féin motion?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's colleagues in government have consistently refused to tackle and put a stop to the outrageous proposed increases in politicians' pay. He will agree with me that we are all well paid. Deputies earn a basic salary of €87,258. It is a wage that many workers would envy. Indeed, it is a wage that the majority of workers will never earn. Of course, the Minister and his...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: At a time when €5 is the best that the Minister can do for pensioners and many private sector workers, politicians cannot and must not get special treatment. We need to put a stop to this. That is what citizens wish to see. That is the fair thing to do. Will the Minister give a commitment that the Government will act properly and legislate to stop unjust pay increases for political...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (19 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to hear this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, there is joint responsibility.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was a helpful observation.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about rent control?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Cathaoirleach, I might try to be of some assistance here.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Cullinane is not inviting any witness to make a remark or to suggest a finding of corruption against any individual. I think he has made that clear.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are talking here, in connection with this report, about issues of process-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and conflicts of interest that are not matters of speculation but matters of established fact. Those facts are reflected in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. All the facts can only lead to the obvious conclusion that the process had been compromised and corrupted.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Corrupted. What I hear the Deputy asking in challenging Mr. Soffe, who referred to this point in his opening statement, is how on earth he is so against the grain of what is in the report, of what is a matter of established fact and of what is the view of the Minister and others.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is breaking the law.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is its assertion.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Three weeks.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fáilte uilig anseo inniu. I want to start with the assertions the gentlemen who are welcome have made against others in the course of the proceedings this morning, some of which I want to explore with them. At different points of his opening statement Mr. Soffe questioned the credibility of the Comptroller and Auditor General. It echoed what Mr. Frank Daly had to say when he appeared...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will stop Mr. Soffe there. This is not the first occasion on which the defence of NAMA has been premised not on substantiated facts from NAMA but on what I regard as an outright assault on the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. I can give Mr. Soffe an example. In his statement, on page 7, he makes the following assertion: "The C&AG’s view on the management of...