Results 10,921-10,940 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The news is that people have woken up to the Labour Party. They have wised up to the fact that far from protecting working families and low and middle-income workers it is happy to allow Fine Gael set the agenda, happy to run down public services, happy to agree to tax giveaways and bonanzas for the rich, and happy to ignore any promise it might make. That is what its track record reflects....
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, the record shows that the Labour Party in government raced through the lobbies to extend that banking guarantee-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----so the Tánaiste should save us the homily on that.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste said that in her view the recovery is dynamic. The recovery has not visited the vast majority of communities and families throughout the country, and she remains blind and indifferent to that. In this general election will the Tánaiste come clean, put her hands up and accept her party's dismal record in government? I ask her not to insult the intelligence of the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Wow.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Three thousand euro an hour?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The election is fast approaching. Once again, the Labour Party is throwing around election promises like confetti at a wake. Does the Tánaiste really believe that people have such short memories-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Some five years ago, the Labour Party made a litany of promises in order to get into government. It promised to protect low and middle-income families from Fine Gael. Does the Tánaiste remember the slogan "Fine Gael: Every Little Hurts"?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We remember it. The Labour Party said it would oppose water charges. It broke its word. It said it would oppose a property tax. It broke its word. It said it would protect child benefit. It broke its word. It said it would not raise taxes and yet a litany of taxes and charges increased. It said it would not cut social welfare but it cut rates and made payments harder to get. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I, too, acknowledge the Chairman's work and that of Deputy Deasy in this regard. The correspondence circulated to us this morning makes for very stark reading. There is no margin of misunderstanding. There was no apology. Perhaps there was no intention of an apology, bar for the work done by Deputy Deasy and yourself, Chairman. I agree with other members of the committee in respect of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I support that. It is a wise decision. It is just a further reflection of political inertia or indifference that this has gone around in circles for so long. My sense is that there is broad agreement that the right thing should be done, but for the life of me I cannot understand why this has not been sorted out. It is disgraceful that now, at the eleventh hour, at the end of this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The point being that it is made clear that we want the officials who can answer the questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no point in sending in officials who will be looking into outer space, divining answers.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (28 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: 367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide sports capital funding in 2016; when he will announce details of same; when the process will open and close; and the amount money that will be allocated in 2016. [3488/16]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is skewed. That is a misuse of the independence that the bank rightly claims for all the other obvious reasons.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: If we leave aside the whistleblower for a moment and just take this report, which was issued by the Central Bank on 29 January 2015, the difficulty is that it does not speak of an organisation that is committed to absolute compliance and the gold standard. It says something very different. To give due recognition, one area in respect of which the bank is compliant is that relating to travel...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is conscious non-compliance, not just non-compliance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I ask the Governor whether there had been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: My time is very limited. Had previous governance audits been carried out in the Central Bank prior to this one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. I suspect that there were.