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Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The payroll costs have increased and the average has not shifted dramatically. I am not gainsaying-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. McDonagh. He made reference in his presentation and in previous meetings to the buoyancy in the property market, both residential and commercial. He has attributed some of his successes, as he sees them, to that fact. Given that, why have the impairment costs or assessments increased?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the opportunity that Deputy Clare Daly's Bill has provided to Members to discuss the remaining constitutional barriers to the equal rights of women in this State. Given that equality before the law is generally protected at Article 40.1, that the equal right of women to citizenship is protected at Article 9.1.3°, and the equal right to vote and to stand for election is...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Taoiseach make the decision on the other extension?

Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about Louise O'Keeffe?

Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It did not please Louise O'Keeffe.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach confirm that there will be a referendum on extending voting rights in presidential elections to citizens resident outside the State? Will this referendum be held in May 2015 to coincide with other referendum matter? Will the Taoiseach allow time to debate the State's response to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Louise O'Keeffe and, by...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Unlike Deputy Martin I do understand the Government's anxiety to rush this Bill through on the eve of Christmas. The Government clearly has not heard the message from the people in that it continues its blarney about clarity and certainty. The clarity and the certainty that people require as the Taoiseach well knows is that the Government will abolish the domestic water charges. The...

Tributes on the Retirement of Member of Staff (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: On my own behalf and on behalf of Sinn Féin, I wish in the first instance to congratulate Andy for such an outstanding record of public service, as well as for his courtesy and decency to everybody who graces this House. I wish him well in what I am sure will be an interesting and active phase of retirement. I wish him a happy Christmas and best regards to his family. Comhghairdeas leis.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all too familiar with the ECB's efforts to save the euro. The people watching know from direct experience what the cost of it was. The previous Government was bullied, threatened and harangued into doing the bidding of the ECB. The country and the people were not bailed out; the banks were. We have had year after year and budget after budget of cutbacks and austerity. People know...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is not prepared to call the institution to account. He said the ECB was not obliged to attend but that it should. What does the Taoiseach propose to do to ensure its representatives attend? He is not a disinterested bystander or onlooker. He is not - heaven forbid - Mr. Draghi's messenger boy. He is the Taoiseach of the country, and the people expect him to stand by them.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach been in touch with Mr. Draghi? Will he be in touch with Mr. Draghi? What does he propose to do to ensure his co-operation with the inquiry, or will he, once again, doff his forelock and do the ECB's bidding?

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want the ECB to attend the banking inquiry and I want to know what the Taoiseach is going to do make it happen.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We know that.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The long awaited banking inquiry begins its first day of taking evidence today, but that development has been overshadowed by the refusal of representatives of the European Central Bank to appear before the inquiry.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The ECB played a direct and central role in the matters the inquiry will examine. It had a central role in the inflation of the property and credit bubbles which burst so catastrophically. In 2010 the then ECB president, Jean-Claude Trichet, demanded that the State apply for a bailout to recapitalise the banks and that a vicious programme of austerity be imposed on the people. These...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports that are available in respect a child (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who suffers with attention deficit disorder, ADD, and Asperger's syndrome and who is in need of a greater level of support than is currently being provided. [48507/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports available to the family of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who suffers with attention deficit disorder, ADD, and Asperger’s syndrome and who is in need of greater support than is currently being provided. [48508/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) in Dublin 22 receives a full mental health assessment as a matter of urgency to ensure that the supports provided to them and their family are appropriate to their level of need. [48509/14]