Results 11,501-11,520 of 21,157 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Sep 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports which will be put in place to allow a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 to remain at their current school; if she will consider the provision of additional special needs assistant hours to ensure that the person can remain in the school of their parents' choice. [31021/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (22 Sep 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1472. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has instructed local authorities not to submit proposals for funding for social housing of more than 50 units; and if so, the reason why. [31839/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (22 Sep 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1473. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will consider applications from local authorities for social housing developments in excess of 50 units where the authority has available land for developments larger than 50 units. [31840/15]

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: We oppose the guillotining of important legislation but there is something especially cynical about guillotining this Bill, which has been rushed from start to finish. In its haste to get these matters through, the Government got the justice committee to sit last Friday, which was most unusual. It has allowed an hour or an hour and a half to scrutinise legislation that proposes attachment...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can we see the advice?

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am suggesting that the Government should stop screwing struggling families. That is my proposition to the Tánaiste.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The answer is never.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can we see that advice?

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am struck by the extent to which the Tánaiste has morphed into a Fine Gael mouthpiece. There is not a sliver of difference between her answer-----

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Labour Party, led by the Tánaiste, which came to office on a platform of opposition to water charges for some very obvious reasons, not least that people had suffered so much by way of cutbacks and were struggling to get by, now staunchly defends the indefensible. The Labour Party and the Tánaiste stand shoulder to shoulder with the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny and tells people...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should listen to the people as she has promised to do and scrap this scheme. It is not working for the people or for the State's balance sheet. Would the Tánaiste prefer to blindly follow where Deputy Enda Kenny and his Blueshirt colleagues lead her, and insist on a policy that is clearly failing? She disregards lone parents, pickpockets them and leaves them...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, Irish Water was forced to admit that fewer than half of householders were paying the Government's water tax. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, the Tánaiste's deputy leader,-----

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----has insisted that the €30.5 million collected to date of a projected income of €66.8 million was "a good start". I do not know what planet the Minister is living on, but his delusional response to the overwhelming rejection of water charges further discredits the Government. We learned today that, with the failure of the Government's intimidation and threats, Irish Water...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----by telephone in a desperate, last ditch attempt-----

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to get them to sign up to water charges. This move is pathetic. I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday all of these issues. How does Irish Water expect to attract investment with such a derisory level of compliance with the Government's charge? According to one economist, at least 80% of householders would need to pay if the company were to borrow at competitive rates. That is not...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's figures for the Irish Water quango do not add up. It is time that she face this reality. The water tax is finished. Will the Tánaiste and the Labour Party heed this message?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (16 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 559. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding an application for dental braces for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30100/15]

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to make a final point. The scenes witnessed at the weekend were shocking, not least for some of my party colleagues whose election posters were placed on bonfires, or in the case of Michelle Gildernew, her effigy was burnt – not a pleasant or defensible action. There is a challenge for Unionism to examine that squarely. There is no doubt there is a challenge for all of us to...

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I join colleagues in welcoming the fact that we have passed an all-party motion which unequivocally and strongly states our support for the Ballymurphy families. A very clear demand has now been made on the British system to establish an appropriate investigation. We do not want to hear from Theresa Villiers, David Cameron or anybody else the reasons that, in their rather odd views, this...

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed. I oppose the guillotine of all Stages of the Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2015. This Bill transposes EU Directive 2013/30/EU which was published as far back as June 2013 yet, two years later, the Government is only now putting forward the legislation to deal with it. It is very worrying that it has taken so long for the Government to implement a directive...