Results 12,381-12,400 of 21,179 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know the Tánaiste would say it is only €3 and what is the big deal.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We went through this drama last November, I hope we do not have to go through it again.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I just wish the Tánaiste-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to answer "Yes or "No". Does she support the plan for attachment orders-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to wages, social welfare and pensions?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste might take to her feet and answer that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are an absolute disgrace. You are a wimp
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Six whole euro.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Every time this issue arises here and every time the Tánaiste, in particular, gets to her feet to do a tour around the world, in verbal terms, she confirms yet again just how distant she and her colleagues are from the realities of life for so many people on the ground, certainly the people that I represent. The persons to whom she referred are the net beneficiaries of six whole euro...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: With the greatest of respect to the Tánaiste, and it is all the one to me, but all those families do not appreciate her condescending rhetoric suggesting that somehow they do not understand the value of a clean water supply-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----or suggesting, as some of her other colleagues have, that those who cannot pay are nothing more than scroungers. That is quite something coming from the Labour Party-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: ----and it is not lost on the people. Last November, I asked the Tánaiste to confirm whether she was planning to come the heavy with those unable to pay the water charges. She might remember that occasion. She bumbled and blustered and, as usual, she did not answer the question-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----but even then she knew what the plan was. She knew and she knows today as we speak that despite all her talk about putting money back in people's pockets that her real intention is to take it straight back out again with attachment orders, council rent increases and deposit retention. That is the reality. When the Tánaiste takes to her feet, in addition to, no doubt, a very...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and answer, in the clearest of terms, that yes, she supports the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, in his enterprise to pickpocket wages, social welfare and pensions?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Tánaiste confirm that is the case, that it is her position and the position of the Labour Party?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, they are not.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: On Saturday up to 80,000 people marched through the streets of Dublin.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: They came from every constituency with a clear message, "Scrap the water charges or call a general election." What was the Labour Party's response? One of its Ministers of State said it did not matter how many people marched, the Government was not for turning - what arrogance. This week the Government has shown its true colours by threatening hundreds of thousand of families who simply...