Results 12,181-12,200 of 21,179 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The point is very clear.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The question has been put very clearly and repeatedly and the people I represent, and that many people represent, want to hear an answer to the question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: You have no answer.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Tánaiste to answer my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question has not been answered.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not me the Tánaiste has to convince of people's anxiety to get back to work. That is a conversation she should have much closer to home, primarily with her colleague, the Minister for Finance. I trust she will have that conversation with him and will ask him to desist from insulting and being condescending towards people who find themselves out of work. That would be at least...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Tánaiste regard that as a principled position? It is a disgraceful thing to do, and none of her highfalutin' and condescending rhetoric can disguise that. People cannot afford these bills. The Tánaiste says she is acting on a proposal from the Law Reform Commission from a number of years back. That proposal does indeed exist, but the Tánaiste is not fooling...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should answer my original question - not that it is terribly unusual not to get an answer. What does she say to that woman in that struggling household? What does the Tánaiste suggest she set aside to put together the €65? Is the Tánaiste happy to give her even more sleepless nights as she worries about how and when the Tánaiste's hand will be stuck...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They want her to respond, if she would be so good as to give an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That was not my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to a very particular section of society. Could we have the question answered?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not asked about people who are well off.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not asked about people on big salaries.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what he said.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: For several months I have asked the Tánaiste to explain how families who have bourne the brunt of the Government's austerity policies can pay the unjust and unfair water tax. I have asked her directly which daily necessities she proposes they forgo to prop up the discredited entity that is Irish Water. She has never once given me a straight answer. We now know the reason for her...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, that is correct. In fact, at the finance committee yesterday, a motion was brought forward asking for different individuals to come before that committee. On legal advice that motion was withdrawn on the basis that the commercial interactions, be it around Siteserv and the commercial wisdom of decisions made, are not for that committee or for our committee to scrutinise or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Subject to the report being compiled and circulated to members, we may be seeking fairly specific figures at the meeting relating to specific expenditure on specific actions. Once the clerk has compiled the report, could we then hone it down to specific instances because in fairness to the officials, if we are asking for very specific figures we must give them notice of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What we heard yesterday was more than alarming. I found it very shocking.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Could I commend our clerk on his diplomatic skills in terms of how he tried to step around the issue?
- Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It happens regularly. There is nothing new there. Apparently, it is not a breach of privilege either.