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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Value for Money Reviews (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: My children finished school five minutes ago in Cabra and they are in a school prefab. Is it planned to alter that? That school has been in prefab accommodation for 20 years: imagine that. Is that not shocking?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Ombudsman-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for his response. In his supplementary reply, he might address the issue of Irish Water. He knows, of course, that my party's proposal is to abolish water charges and bring an end to the monster quango that is Irish Water. Even by the Minister's own reckoning, the current situation leaves people in an impossible position. Essentially, people with complaints in respect...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: As the Minister knows, the commission will only examine complaints after customers have fully exhausted Irish Water's own complaint resolution processes. I do not know if people have spoken to the Minister on this subject but they have certainly approached me. It is a most unsatisfactory route for having a complaint dealt with. I am sure the Minister has also noted the Ombudsman's comments...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend the remit of the Ombudsman to include all companies in public ownership. [2081/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to the extension of the remit of the Ombudsman to include all companies in public ownership. The company I have in mind is Irish Water. As the Minister is aware, the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, has raised important concerns and expressed criticism in asking why the Government has declined to allow his office to investigate complaints made against Irish Water. He has...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public sector posts, including posts in commercial State companies and posts as Government advisers, that he has approved a breach of a pay-cap for. [1949/16]
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: All of it is of historic importance.
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Minister referring to the shopping mall?
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: To see the shopping mall.
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Give over.
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The State, the Government and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht have operated in cahoots with developers. Joe O'Reilly made his planning application for a shopping mall, a controversy ensued and his loans were taken over by NAMA. NAMA acquired the entire portfolio, which it flogged off last November under the very appropriate title "Project Jewel". Deputy Ó Snodaigh...
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is tasteless and is the action of absolute ignoramuses, or ignorami, in the Government. The Minister needs to fix it. That is why she is elected to public office; not to sit and take the part of developers.
- Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is hard to credit that the Minister and her Government are standing over what is planned for Moore Street. It is hard to grasp fully how utterly crass and ignorant is the approach. It is hard to credit that anybody with even a passing interest in or faint respect for the events of Easter week 100 years ago, for the women and men of that time but, perhaps more importantly, for the country...
- Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are finite, yes.We could debate that.
- Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The very purpose of enshrining rights such as these for citizens is that it makes those rights justiciable and places an onus on the State to vindicate them. It is disingenuous and wrong of the Government to state it is bothered by this because the Judiciary might get stroppy with us. Perhaps it is bothered by this innovation, supported by the Constitutional Convention, because it would...
- Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The convention was established in 2012, which seems a lifetime ago, to discuss amendments to the Constitution. It met on 1 December 2012 and sat until 31 March 2014, which also seems a lifetime ago. It was a great undertaking and I acknowledge and commend the work of the convention's chairs, its secretariat, the expert advisers and panels and, in particular, the citizens who participated in...
- Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State rehearsed the party line very predictably. We can agree on one thing, namely, that the issue of the health service should not be reduced to the status of a political football. There is a need for a conversation right across society about what kind of health service we want and how we can get to a universal system of health care that is free at the point of delivery....
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is just a comparison.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I think it is fair.