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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I think we understand the distinction.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (21 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22, participating in a beauty therapy community training course funded by Foras Áiseanna Saothair, the Irish National Training and Employment Authority, at the Ronanstown Training and Education Centre, Balgaddy, Lucan, County Dublin, received no social welfare payments from 2 July 2012 to 21...
- Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The legislative changes we have proposed in this Private Members' motion will benefit all workers, particularly an emerging group of vulnerable workers described as the precariat, heavily concentrated in the retail and hospitality sectors and across the service industry. Their working lives are characterised by low pay, part-time work and uncertain hours. Ireland has the second highest...
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I echo the Tánaiste's sentiments in respect of the family of Karen Buckley. The Tánaiste has made the point on our behalf very eloquently. We send our sympathy and solidarity to the family at this dreadful time for them. My question relates to the water services Bill. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, has done quite an amount...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am picturing Mandy, who as it happens is not a constituent of mine, and her reaction to that answer and its condescending nature-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: ----- and the inference that there is anyone on this side of the House or anywhere else, but more important outside of this hallowed Chamber, who wishes to spend their life reliant on social welfare. Mandy works. Did the Tánaiste hear that? This mother is at work. She gets 14 hours, and she has looked for more. She is not getting those additional hours. Unless the Tánaiste is...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: She attempted to divert attention northwards, where, by the way, ladies and gentlemen and Tánaiste, it is in fact her colleague from her sister party that holds that portfolio.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: In fairness to the SDLP, alongside ourselves, it is fighting the Tory welfare cuts that the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach champion.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will fight that fight in the North.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should attend herself to matters here. Some 56% of lone parent families are materially deprived. A staggering 28% live at risk of poverty. That is twice the rate of two parent families.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: A huge problem for these families, as Deputy Nash knows, is the availability of affordable and quality child care. Child care can cost as much as 52% of the take home pay of a lone parent. The Tánaiste gave an absolutely categoric commitment in 2012 when she introduced this cut that it would not go ahead in the absence of a Scandinavian child care provision. Never mind having a...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mandy is not interested in that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: And they need child care.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I asked the Tánaiste about child care.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste already said that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Tánaiste keep her word from 2012?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Since taking office, the Tánaiste has made eight separate cuts to the one-parent family payment. Across the State, over 30,000 lone parents are receiving letters from her Department. As their youngest children turn seven, they are being taken off the one-parent family payment with the result that thousands will see their weekly incomes fall. Of these parents, 6,400 are set to lose up...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that next Wednesday?