Results 12,221-12,240 of 21,179 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Except for NAMA.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Except for NAMA.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (29 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the shareholders who benefitted from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation 2012 Siteserv transaction, when €5 million was provided in dividends. [16870/15]
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Parents and teachers try to make up the shortfall but in all reality they cannot undo all of the damage the Minister has inflicted.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the Minister could have announced or indicated a reversal of these cuts. If the Minister was committed to a real and fair recovery, that is precisely what he would have done. He might also have indicated the reinstatement of dedicated supports for Traveller children and non-English speaking children. Does the Minister remember that he abolished those supports in their entirety? The...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is é seo an focal deireanach a bheidh agam. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, states that the Government has governed fairly and in the interests of the people. I suggest to the Minister that when the time comes to go to the people, he may find, in fact I believe he will find, that the people do not regard this Government's period of governance in that benign light.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: So are we.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are the people for whom write-offs, tax breaks and even tax amnesties are always possible. The refusal by the Minister for Finance to have the very serious issues surrounding Siteserv and all IBRC transactions, including NAMA transactions, independently investigated by a commission of investigation makes nonsense of any claims he makes to political reform. The truth is that he has no...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What people expected today was a real expression of a dividend for low and middle income people.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Approximately €1 billion has been squandered on Irish Water to date. We now have water meters we may never use while the pipes leak away up to 50% of treated water.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: All of this is happening on the Government's watch. This is the Government's policy in action. Meanwhile and without regard to ability to pay, citizens are to be charged for their water, which is a basic human necessity and right. This is the Government's policy in action. There are 110,366 households in mortgage distress and at any given time an average 5,000 people and families are...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: What has their response been? It has been to impose a tax on the family home with no regard for ability to pay.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The pattern of utter contempt for struggling families is unmistakable. What makes it worse is that the parties almost wear it as a badge of honour. People's inability to pay these taxes is trumped only by the Government's inability to listen and a more fundamental inability or unwillingness to understand the realities of people's lives. We are in the grip of a housing crisis, but one...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today's spring economic statement was billed, among much fanfare, as a roadmap to the great recovery, drawing a line under this Government's devastating cutbacks and austerity and marking an end to what the Minister, Deputy Noonan, describes as the lost decade. They are grandiose claims that have amounted to nothing. There is nothing new whatsoever in them - no change in thinking or...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 232. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 15 April 2015, the reason the five children adopted from the United States of America to Ireland in 2014 could not be timely placed with suitable adoptive parents there; and the steps taken to support this finding, considering that 7,092 children were adopted in the United States of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, is unable to provide surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22, as the hospital does not have the appropriate medical equipment; that the waiting list for the relevant specialist in Tallaght Hospital has increased from 50 patients to 250 patients, due to reduced staff numbers; the...
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is very clear that the Tánaiste is not keen on a full investigation. The Comptroller and Auditor General does not have the competence or authority to carry out what the Tánaiste is suggesting. Those are the words from the man's own mouth. The Tánaiste said she was not sure whether there would have to be a legislative change. She should be sure at this stage. It has been...
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Government bring forward the motion?
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is just rude.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And chicanery.