Results 10,041-10,060 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Would the Leas-Cheann Comhairle take some questions from others and then revert to the Taoiseach?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It might be a more useful way of doing it.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Defence (Amendment) Bill. This legislation will revive existing legislation on the deployment of military personnel overseas. One key issue of concern to military personnel subject to overseas deployment is the use of the anti-malarial drug, Lariam. Lariam was developed by the US army in the 1970s. Three years ago, on the back of increasing evidence...
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: There was none on the previous item so, with the greatest of respect, we will hear the Taoiseach's response.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is in bad form. This has nothing to do with where we were on Saturday.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: If it is a thing that Theresa May assured the Taoiseach that there would be no hard Brexit and no hard border, she has clearly changed her mind. From the statements she made at her party's conference and in subsequent interviews, it is clear that this is what she is minded to do. Finally, we get an inkling into Tory thinking. Brexit is Brexit and Brexit means a hard Brexit. I say this...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last weekend the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May, confirmed that she would trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty before the end of March 2017, thus triggering Brexit. By insisting that Britain pursues a hard Brexit and leaves the Single Market, she has set the British Government on a collision course with the EU in which Ireland, North and South, is regarded as collateral damage....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to note one matter. Maybe it is not strictly a matter arising, but it is a matter that arises. I refer to the slate of witnesses that has been agreed so far for the hearings we are going to have. Obviously, we will add to that we as proceed. The question of securing documents remains an ongoing process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I have that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is absolutely fair enough. I ask for this committee to be given an opportunity to pause for reflection after today's meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We should reflect on matters that will arise-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and individuals and papers that we will seek.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is precisely what I am trying to establish.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, to Mr. McCarthy and his team. NAMA, in addition to everything else, criticised Mr. McCarthy for what it claims was a refusal to meet with the board. Did Mr. McCarthy refuse to meet with the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It also criticised Mr. McCarthy for not making comparisons with other bodies and it referred particularly to the IBRC loan portfolios. I think it said he was comparing NAMA with NAMA. I assume Mr. McCarthy’s position is that the audit process is a case of comparing NAMA with NAMA. Can he comment briefly on that, particularly the IBRC comparison?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Returning to Lazard as the sale advisers, Mr. McCarthy sets out very clearly that in this instance, and it was not unique, NAMA departed from what would be considered standard practice. He cites, for instance, that as loan sale advisers they are not asked to carry out a valuation. They do not give the kind of comprehensive marketing strategy that might be expected in normal practice. It did...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who had control of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the witness know who precisely in NAMA it was? Was it asset recovery?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: So one presumes that Ronnie Hanna, as head of asset recovery, was in charge of that. One thing that intrigued me is that the Comptroller and Auditor General made reference to the letter of certification, or whatever the term is, at the end of the process from Lazard. In the his report, he cites that once Lazard was engaged, it did not go through the standard procurement process. It was...