Results 11,521-11,540 of 21,157 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why did the Government not do this more quickly?
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach refers to slippage in transposition after a delay of two years.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: He should answer them, then.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are serious questions.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have been told that we cannot.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I hate to break it to the Taoiseach but he is going to be sorely disappointed if that is his sincere hope. He has comprehensively failed to win the support of the people for the introduction of this charge. What he has left them with is a quango of enormous proportions, controversies around consultancy fees and so on, meters in the ground that cost a fortune and which are not being used....
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has done this against a backdrop-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----of endless austerity.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach and his cronies in government have-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----stuck their hands in the pockets of working people.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. The Government’s strategy has been to buy off one half of the population with its €100 water conservation grant - wink, wink - and then intimidate the other half with a threat of attachment orders, court proceedings and sticking its hands into their pensions, welfare and wages. Newsflash for the Taoiseach: none of that has worked.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Up to 57% of those due to pay have not paid and will not pay. More of them cannot pay.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is time for the Taoiseach to have a moment of clarity, even vision, and see the wood from the trees. He must understand that this charge is going nowhere. In the public interest, what the Taoiseach needs to do is to scrap it, not to make smart or condescending comments about my mathematics. His own mathematics are not too hot. Those with great mathematical skills are lone parents, however.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The lone parents the Taoiseach has ripped off and who now he glibly claims can find the €3 which they do not have.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: He must abolish the charge.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The interesting thing would have been to see the Taoiseach negotiate. We have yet to see that.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It might be a modest charge for the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a bribe.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure they do.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: In a major blow to the Government’s misguided water charges policy, Irish Water has finally revealed that it managed to collect from only 43% of households who had been targeted to pay. This is despite the extraordinary lengths to which the Government has gone to force them to pay. In the face of widespread rejection of the water tax, the Government had resorted to coercion, or so it...