Results 12,161-12,180 of 21,179 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question brings us back to today's talks and the issue of public sector pay. I want to know if and how the Minister will prioritise low-paid workers in the current round of talks. I heard the Minister say earlier that anything that is agreed must be prudent, modest and sustainable. He urged realistic expectations. What does that mean for low-paid workers in the public sector?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The difficulty with the Minister's reply is that it jabs at an answer. Previously, he has stood up in the House and given a commitment of sorts that those on lower incomes within the public service, including the Civil Service, would be prioritised. Ever since he made that commitment, the Minister has studiously rowed back from it. He says that every public servant has made a contribution....
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Expenditure (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Government which wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, it wants to send a message to the electorate that it will dispense largesse from the Government’s coffers. When one actually looks at and drills into the figures, however, one finds that this is not the case. I am working on the assumption that the projections made in the comprehensive expenditure report still...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Expenditure (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The concern is that, while moving outside the EDP and into the preventative arm, investment in real terms in essential public services will not see the kind of boom at which the Minister hinted during the spring economic statement. In the Minister's Comprehensive Expenditure Review Report 2015-2017, the planned investment in areas such as health and education were underwhelming. It suggests...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Expenditure (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected annual increase in public expenditure over the next three years. [18406/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Expenditure (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to projected increases in public expenditure over the next three years. I raise it in light of the spring economic statement, in which, to much fanfare, the Government announced that the bad times were over and that the good times were dawning. In the course of making that series of announcements, the Government identified a 50:50 split in respect of taxation and...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: NAMA Operations (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will take the necessary steps to bring the National Asset Management Agency under the remit of the freedom of information legislation. [18245/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 who is currently awaiting back-payments of disability allowance; and the length of time it will be before these payments are received. [18421/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 244. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 25 February 2015, the reason, for issuing a new personal public service number card, deed poll documentation, signed by a solicitor, is not sufficient; the reason such documentation must be registered with the High Court and a fee paid before it is deemed valid for the purposes of issuing a new...
- Order of Business (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste might address the question of timing which Deputy Kelleher raised. When can we expect to see this pickpocket legislation? Not to rehearse all that has gone before, the Tánaiste does a great disservice to those working-class families that are struggling by landing another bill on their mat and strong-arming them in this way. She knows that full well. Just to...
- Order of Business (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----so if she is making a party political point, which is not helpful on issues of poverty, I want to put that on the record. There are elections today in the North and across Britain. What level of priority does the Tánaiste attach to an early meeting with the incoming British Administration? The last four years have been marked by absolute disengagement by her Government in terms of...
- Order of Business (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no comparison with what I have described.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I expect an answer to my question?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What item should that woman and her family forego to pay your water tax? That was the question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What item should that woman raising her children forego to pay your bill? Please answer my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What item does that woman forego to pay this bill?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And you will pickpocket her disgracefully.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: She is not. She is being put under immense pressure by you. What item does she take off her shopping list?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I think you should answer questions. That is what I think.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am questioning you.