Results 11,021-11,040 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- 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.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a shopping mall.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: In a shopping mall.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can we have the debate?
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is missing the point.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: My party did not object to the Order of Business today but it is extremely disappointing that such a limited amount of time is being allocated for the discussion of the reports from the Constitutional Convention. We have waited and waited and now, at the 11th hour, we have what is a minimalist debate. We did not object or look for a vote on the Order of Business simply because at least now...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might check that for me. In any event, we need a deeper discussion on this issue than a Topical Issue affords us. The Tánaiste will be aware that there has been a campaign for the best part of two decades to force the State and whatever Government to treat Moore Street, the entire terrace and the vicinity around the GPO up as far as Parnell Square, in a...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: She cut child benefit and thereby broke the promise her party made to voters.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Labour Party promised to develop a comprehensive preschool service. There is no sign of that.