Results 10,661-10,680 of 21,149 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. It is astonishing, although typical of the Government, to propose such an inadequate analysis and consideration of what is, perhaps, the largest proposed trade agreement in the world, and that there would be such scant consideration of the very real implications for the State, workers, regulatory standards and workers' rights. There has been some consideration at various...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Despite the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: He represents them.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is she running in County Donegal?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste's party is not even running a candidate there.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Tánaiste?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are still 250 children waiting.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not the story parents are telling us.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I suppose we can only regard the Tánaiste's response at this stage as her single transferable rant, week to week. There is something alarming in her suggestion that affording these 250 children the attention and procedures they require will somehow put the recovery at risk. There is something other-worldly, bizarre and a bit obscene about an assertion like that.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would also suggest that those children and, more to the point, their parents and families, will not thank the Tánaiste for delivering a rant against Sinn Féin and an amount of pre-election posturing, rather than dealing with the question I clearly put to her.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is of no comfort and is of no consequence to those families to learn of the Tánaiste's view of Sinn Féin or any other political party in this Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is irrelevant and is a typical diversion on the part of the Tánaiste. If it is as the Tánaiste says, namely, that the Government has made the necessary investment, why is it there 250 children with scoliosis waiting to see a consultant or to have surgery? Why is it that Cork University Hospital has had to cancel all non-emergency procedures? That is not evidence of...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: They need medical attention now, not in 12 months' time, as the Tánaiste suggests. I have told her that many of them have been waiting for 15 months already. They deserve a direct response from the Tánaiste. They deserve better than a political attack; they deserve answers. It would be refreshing, if the Tánaiste is not prepared to answer us, as parliamentarians, that she...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the Tánaiste doing for these families and these children now? Scoliosis is, as the Tánaiste knows, an excruciating condition. I am sure she has heard the testimony of parents who say they look on as their children cry in pain, and they wait and wait. Will they wait forever more? Will they wait another 12 months? What will the Tánaiste do for these children?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Where was the hate?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thanks to the Tánaiste and her Government, we have had another week of chaos across the State. It started with chaos in the public appointments process as the Tánaiste tore up yet another election promise and her Government's own rules to give a plum post to a party supporter. Then we saw the scandalous chaos in the housing system first hand, with families degraded and forced into...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (21 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if An Taoiseach has referred a case (details supplied) to him; the steps he is taking to address the issues involved; why he has not made any contact with the family involved and to indicate when he will meet this family. [2651/16]
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Deputy's colleagues were in government then, allegedly buying people off.