Results 14,141-14,160 of 21,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn, now accept that Deputy Shatter had to resign?
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Had it been the Labour Party's call would it have waited for the former Minister, Deputy Shatter, to make up his own mind or would it finally have run out of rope and admitted that he should stand down?
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Minister, Deputy Quinn, thinks that referring to me as "motherly" to the cackles of this almost exclusively male audience goes down well with me or mothers who might be watching he is very wrong. I do not appreciate the tone of that remark.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know a sexist undertone when I hear it, Deputy Stagg.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have plenty to say, Deputy Stagg. If the Deputy would do me the courtesy of allowing me to say it, I would appreciate it.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: As a party, Labour was kept in the dark in respect of the Guerin report and the resignation of former Minister, Deputy Shatter, although the Tánaiste is not here to confirm this. Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn, know whether the Government has yet received the Cooke report? Lest I was a little clumsy in terms of the wording used in posing my initial question, I will rephrase it. Does...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Government received the Cooke report?
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister, Deputy Quinn, did not answer my core question. Did the former Minister, Deputy Shatter, have to step down?
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We could get the information from the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, if he were here. I understand the Taoiseach told us earlier that he was in Galway. I find it extraordinary, given this turn of events and the fact that a senior Cabinet Minister has resigned, that the Tánaiste would not be here, but I will come back to that. The Minister took the opportunity earlier to extol the...
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are no domestic water charges there.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Events (6 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 329. To ask the Minister for Defence the changes that have occurred to the invitee list for the State's Easter Commemoration; if the list of persons previously invited has changed in recent years; his views on the way that it will change in the future; and if the relatives of those involved in the 1916 Rising will continue to be invited to future ceremonies. [19973/14]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I fully agree with the Chairman. It is now apparent that we have no option but to seek powers of compellability. I am not sure there is much merit in picking over the contents of the two letters that we received, save to say the following. My impression is that they are letters that, if you like, throw the kitchen sink at this committee. Their allegations are bogus and designed to stall...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not be so sarcastic. I do not appreciate it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would go further. Whether this is accidental or deliberate, I sense a level of flippancy, almost, in the presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am simply saying it. This situation is not unique to me as a public representative dealing quite regularly with people who find themselves in a distressed situation facing an intimidating banking system. It is not helpful if I hear a flippancy in the witness's presentation, and I hope it is only me. For people who are in this awful position to hear a flippant attitude or remark from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are dealing with the prospect of people losing their family home-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----so I do not want the Governor to come here and crack jokes or to use terms such as "so-called loss of ownership" routes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Right, and I am the person the Governor is dealing with. I am marking his card, as it were, because that does not sit well with me. For his information, it also does not sit well with the people I represent. I will leave it at that as I have made my point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I very much doubt that. We have been given the health warnings surrounding the judgment yesterday, and I appreciate that. What is the number of staff still in the Central Bank who would have worked with Patrick Neary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the story at the more senior levels of the bank? Patrick Neary is gone but the Governor does not operate as a sole trader or lone ranger. He has a senior team around him.