Results 121-140 of 21,085 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the point. The most basic rule of the functioning of this place is the distinction between the Government exercising its prerogatives and the Opposition holding it robustly to account. You do not like accountability, Micheál Martin - cry me a river, because you will be held to account. The other basic necessity is the independence and absolute impartiality of the Ceann...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sure we saw it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not false.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The brazen stroke engineered by the Taoiseach yesterday represents an unprecedented sabotaging of the democracy of the Dáil. This mess is entirely of the Government's making-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the chaos that unfolded in this Chamber is a response to the Taoiseach running roughshod over the democratic functioning of the Dáil to suit his own agenda and to protect his grubby deal with Michael Lowry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: A deal so important to the self-serving political interests of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, that he moves heaven and earth to allow Deputy Lowry and his group of TDs to be both in Government and Opposition at the same time. Of course, this plan is of mutual benefit. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael seek to blunt the Opposition and dodge accountability. Michael Lowry and his crew seek a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: A murky deal with a man the Taoiseach once described as "a rogue politician", who he called on to resign his Dáil seat because of the findings of corruption against him, now pulls the strings as king-maker in the Government's coalition and gives the two fingers to the Opposition, to democracy and to the Irish people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Taoiseach took a sledgehammer to the rules and procedures of the Dáil and was assisted in this task by the Ceann Comhairle. Yesterday, the person responsible for safeguarding the Dáil's democratic processes led the charge on behalf of the Government's agenda.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Ceann Comhairle bulldozed Dáil rules to get the Government's plan over the line to protect the very deal that put her in her position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: A deal brokered by her mentor, Deputy Lowry, who sat smiling and giving the two fingers to the people of Ireland while the chaos unfolded. A Cheann Comhairle, you took a wrecking ball to Dáil procedure to facilitate this charade.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: You even got a thumbs up from the Government Chief Whip for all your efforts.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Ceann Comhairle failed to hold a vote to agree Dáil Business when a vote was called. You dumped promised legislation; and in your rush to ram through the Government motion, you only called a vote on an amendment and not on a substantive motion but still declared the Government motion had been passed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: This was farcical, a clear breach of Dáil rules. It was unprecedented and it was unacceptable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Your actions yesterday, a Cheann Comhairle, were demonstrably partisan and lacked the partiality and independence demanded of your position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who convinced the Ceann Comhairle to play her part in this disgraceful charade, or is it simply that bias for the Government is baked into the very deal that secured her position? That is now the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thaispeáin an Ceann Comhairle nach bhfuil sí neamhchlaonta nó neamhspleách. Thacaigh sí go daingean leis an Rialtas chun an beart aiféalach le Michael Lowry a chosaint. Ní féidir léi leanúint ar aghaidh sa phost. Caithfidh sí imeacht. A Cheann Comhairle, not alone have you lost the confidence of the entire Opposition, you have in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the Dáil cannot function properly while you remain in the Chair.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Above all, the Ceann Comhairle must be impartial, fair and independent. By your actions, you have demonstrated that you are not. Your position is therefore untenable. I ask you to reflect very carefully on this because you need to go.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (25 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Coordination Group in the days before, during and after Storm Éowyn. [10820/25]