Results 11,281-11,300 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Are we passing on to the Comptroller and Auditor General the job of auditing proposals or is the Chairman suggesting that the IFAC should undertake this work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It will not do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: As a matter of initial clarification, it is not over 4,000 that were considered unsuitable but 2,469 of the properties.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They were no longer available for social housing. That is a different matter from 2,469.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not disputing that. It is a good idea to get as much information on this matter as we can. We should look to the Department to furnish us with that. Of course, sizeable as those figures are, they are a drop in the ocean in respect of the housing crisis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is an NGO. The documentation states that the production of the policy document was undertaken with the assistance of the European Union. One presumes this group has been around for quite some time and has access to funding through one of the funding streams. I agree that we should meet and see where an investigation, examination or discussion might go. I do not think there is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly that response would be welcome. This has been an ongoing issue for youth workers and providers in the Stoneybatter area. The nub of it is that there is an anomaly of about €76,000, conservatively, in respect of the spend. The City of Dublin Youth Service Board, CDYSB, has given one figure and the Department has given another. Similar services across the State are under...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is not actually a member of Sinn Féin.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a mandate for abstention.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Partition is not a fresh start.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: On the issue of the past, everybody has expressed their disappointment that full agreement was not reached on these matters. That disappointment is shared by us in Sinn Féin. Let us put on the record the cause of the failure because there was agreement on the mechanisms for truth recovery and to afford some level of closure and comfort for victims and survivors, irrespective of the...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The North is not a properly functioning state and, by way of a newsflash for those who did not notice, Ireland is partitioned, the Border is a contested border and the consequences of partition are felt, North and South. Those who are frustrated by the rounds of negotiations who say, "Not this all over again", should bear in mind that in order to achieve full normalisation, full democracy...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I, too, welcome that we are having these statements and this debate on the North in the Dáil today. Like others, I wish that this were a more regular feature of Dáil business and I urge the Government to ensure it is. These latest negotiations were in the first instance a direct result of the crisis created by the economic and political policies of the British Government in...
- Tributes to Retiring Member of Staff (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is a Dub.
- Tributes to Retiring Member of Staff (25 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Well said.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And cross-Government.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: So are the ones going on strike.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We want to give them-----