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- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is ridiculous.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Pardon me?
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I believe it was a biased intervention. I am not withdrawing it.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will leave the Chamber and I hope the Taoiseach has heard what I have had to say.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The ongoing failure to provide sufficient resource teachers, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists is unacceptable. Disability services have been run down on the Taoiseach's watch. Parents and teachers are distressed, while children are suffering because the basic services necessary for them to develop and flourish are being denied. The health service, too, is under...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach had promised to abolish these charges. Does he remember that promise?
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Neither has the Taoiseach made specific provision for discretionary medical cards. After all the hardship visited on those coping with serious illnesses and disabilities, including children who had their medical cards taken from them, it is incredible that the Taoiseach has not made explicit provision to guarantee that this sorry saga will not play out again. The Taoiseach could have...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: People have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands to tell the Government to axe the water charges. They have told it loud and clear that this is a bridge too far, they cannot pay and have no more to give. They now want to know why the Government is not listening. Sinn Féin, in its pre-budget submission, demonstrated for the Government that it can balance the books without...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The contempt the Government shows for these families is breathtaking. Forcing people into poverty is not something to be proud of, which was something the Labour Party understood not so long ago. The Government has today confirmed that it is a pedlar of poverty and to make matters worse, it wants a round of applause for its efforts. I, for one, am sick of listening to its...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government ridicules Sinn Féin’s pledge to abolish these punitive taxes and sneers at any suggestion that the wealthy in society could be asked to contribute more.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach wants us to believe that his way is the only way. He is wrong and no amount of hot air can disguise the devastating consequences of the choices his Government continues to make. True to form, the Fine Gael Party concentrates its efforts on the better-off-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and true to form, the Labour Party goes along with it. Reducing the top income tax rate by one percentage point will benefit only 17% of workers, of whom those on the largest incomes, the Taoiseach for instance, will gain most. The better off a person is and the more he or she earns, the greater will be the benefit. Let us contrast that with the approach taken to low income earners....
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What did the Government do? Let us take the case of John, one of the examples used in the book accompanying the budget. John, who is single and works full-time for the minimum wage, will gain €173 annually or €3.32 per week from this budget. This is what the end of austerity means for John. How would he fare if he was married with two children and his family had one income?...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Despite its rhetoric, the Government's record on job creation is nothing to crow about. More than 370,000 people remain on the live register, including more than 56,000 young people. Emigration is official Government policy and has been actively incentivised by cuts to social welfare for young people. I wish the Government would dispense with the fiction that it has protected core social...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: After successive budgets in which tens of billions of euro have been hacked from the economy and public services and after years in which the Taoiseach, like his Fianna Fáil predecessors, dipped his hands into the pockets of low- and middle-income families, this budget was billed as marking an end to austerity. This was to be, in his words, a neutral budget. It is anything but that. ...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is disgraceful.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I correct the record of the House to reflect that the Government and Tánaiste will reduce people's water to a trickle if they do not meet this-----
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----which to my way of thinking is the equivalent of cutting off their water supply.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Reducing people's water to a trickle - the point stands.