Results 10,961-10,980 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- 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.
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, that is the Labour Party's record. Sinn Féin has not been in government. Did the Deputy miss that bit?
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I can read.
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: He can read too.
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for the condescension from the Labour Party.
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true.
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Under the Tánaiste's watch, women, children, the poor, the vulnerable and low paid workers have taken cut after cut and suffered blow after blow as she has implemented time after time, measure after measure, cuts that can only be considered as being anti-woman, anti-child and poverty creating. This Government in its time in office made eight separate cuts in payments to lone parent...
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Now like a deer caught in the headlights she attempts to pull out of the Labour Party hat political gimmicks and ludicrous and uncosted populist promises, as she tries so hard to curry favour in the hope that people will forget the injury she and her Government has caused them by an endless litany of austerity policies. It is insulting to suggest, as the Tánaiste claims, that she and...
- Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Deputy is losing the run of himself.