Results 14,021-14,040 of 21,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships Cost (4 Jun 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role of PPP financing in the phase 4 infrastructure stimulus projects he announced on 13 May 2014; if such PPP contracts will be subject to value for money auditing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23674/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships Cost (4 Jun 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question has two parts. The first refers to the financing arrangements for the phase 4 infrastructure stimulus projects the Minister announced on 13 May. The second part relates to public private partnership, PPP, contracts and the use or otherwise of value for money auditing in making decisions to go that route as against the traditional route.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships Cost (4 Jun 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of the €200 million investment to which the Minister referred, all of which will be directly funded by the Exchequer, how much will come from the sale of State assets? The Minister indicated that the value for money audit is a standard part of the project appraisal process. According to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, €6.2 billion was...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (4 Jun 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on developments to date in respect of the Public Service Management (Sick Leave) Regulations S.I. 124 of 2014 since their publication to date. [23708/14]
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was not necessary to cut respite care grants.
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I heard that. Did the Taoiseach hear me?
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I take it the Taoiseach is not seeking just to tweak the process and that discretionary medical cards will be reinstated for those who possessed them previously.
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is an important issue and the Taoiseach raised it. On previous occasions I have raised the matter of the Cooke report and inquired as to when it will be delivered to the Taoiseach. We have received different responses from various members of Government in respect of this report. We were originally informed that it was imminent and then that this was not the case. Is the Taoiseach in a...
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is to be no change to the programme for Government or the scale of the cutbacks. Let me put this question to the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach at least give back the medical card to Katie Connolly, a young child with Down's syndrome-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and to Alex Boyle, a young disabled child?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach at least do that if he has heard the voices of the people?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government should sort it out.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: When?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have done it for a generation of people. Is the Taoiseach blind?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: On Friday the people sent the Taoiseach and his Government a clear message. They clearly rejected the policies of the Government and said it had no mandate to inflict the misery it had been inflicting on families or the damage it had been causing to society. They have now told the Government to end its brutal agenda of relentless austerity, reverse its policy of taking medical cards from...
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not right.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know how to break it to the Taoiseach, but he is not regarded as competent. He should have seen this; did he not follow the election results? He is not regarded as competent; neither is he regarded as being fair. He talks about others subjecting people to penury, but that is precisely what he has done. There is no public support for taking discretionary medical cards from very...
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear from the Taoiseach's response that there will be no renegotiation of the programme for Government. Did the Labour Party hear this?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Taoiseach tell the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, this?