Results 13,001-13,020 of 21,203 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (16 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes in the guidelines on appointments to State boards that were published on 25 November 2014, and the reason these have not been implemented in full before now. [47794/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: North South Ministerial Council (16 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his attendance at the North-South Ministerial Council meeting on 5 December 2014. [47799/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (16 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 414. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the forthcoming commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes will be in all ways compliant with the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, BICI, principles and best practices for international and national commissions of inquiry and the Siracusa guidelines for international, regional and national fact-finding bodies....
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate that concern in respect of the superannuation and retired allowances Supplementary Estimate Vote 12. Deputy Sean Fleming requested that information, as did I. We went so far as to object to the completion -----
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is probably Joan Burton on her phone.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We went so far as to suggest that we should adjourn the meeting and reconvene so that we could have access to the information. It was not forthcoming. Two things happened. We were asked to complete a process at committee not exactly blind but certainly without all the information. Now we are asked to clear not just that Estimate, but a whole set of them - Votes 12, 17, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32,...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are entitled to the information we sought.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will there be votes tomorrow?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to finish out that point. There is an additional issue that the Ombudsman raises. It seems that concerns are not being passed on by the HSE or HIQA to the Ombudsman where there are matters to be investigated. In addition to the specifics that played out on our television screens, that is an issue the Minister might address as might the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar. To...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Minister hear the voices of these people? Did he hear when they told him that partial U-turns and revised packages containing bribes and sour-sweeteners and kicking down the road the certainty of metered water charges does not cut it? The message and the demand of the people is very clear and simple, is to abolish water charges or if not, call a general election. That is the choice...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will take that reply as a long-winded "No". The Minister could just have said, "No". If he had just had said "No", at least we would have the clarification that he had heard my question and also that he had heard the voices of the people. They want the certainty and simplicity of the abolition of these charges. People want the certainty and simplicity of knowing that when they turn out...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The truth is the Minister will not abolish the charges so what we need is a general election. The Minister cannot waltz in here, as delusional as all of the members of the Government are, and pretend that the Government's mandate is still intact.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That mandate is not intact; it is broken and it was broken by the Government's own broken promises. If the Minister disagrees with me-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----if his backbenchers disagree with me, if he believes that the Government still has a mandate and if he is certain of that, then call a general election and prove me wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I never supported them.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, tens of thousands of people protested outside the gates of the Dáil against the Government’s water charges. The protest was peaceful and it was a vibrant demonstration of people power.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those tens of thousands-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those tens of thousands of people represent just the front line of a much wider risen people-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----who yesterday joined together and sang in one chorus that they have had enough. Enough cuts, enough poverty, enough of feeling hopeless and helpless, enough of the Minister and of his Government. They have told them that these charges are a step too far. The Minister can try, if he wishes, to dismiss or downplay or distort the significance of yesterday'sRight2Water rally but that kite...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Chairman inviting a decision by the committee on whether it should hear this person, and when?