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- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why is the Government forcing our young from this State to Sydney, Brisbane, Boston and beyond? It strikes me this is official Labour Party policy just like Fianna Fáil's before it. I ask the Tánaiste to answer this. Why is the Government making young people pay for the recession?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the impact of budget 2014 on fuel poverty. [43365/13]
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: My question is about the Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill. I understand this is the legislation in which the provision of GP cards to children aged five years and under will be contained. When will that be introduced? Will that also contain provisions for the same extension to people with long-term illness? The Taoiseach will recall that this promise was made in...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is what it says.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It says that payments cannot commence until decisions have been made on the other recommendations which include pension and health supports.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a logjam. Urgency was promised and many of these people are elderly.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste should give over.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: When will the women get their payments? When will the issue surrounding health and pensions be resolved? That is what the women want to know.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Really, it is very unedifying for somebody in the office of Tánaiste to be so petty and childish at this hour of the day.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Deputy is sensitive on the issue.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I also asked about the general practitioners Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are graduates.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is emigration.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am glad the Taoiseach clarified the fact he recognises that young people want to work, because the rhetoric from the Government has consistently been either to state openly or to insinuate that young people choose social welfare as a lifestyle choice and there is some type of layabout generation.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are nothing of the sort; they want work. Where are the jobs for them? Where are the jobs for our young people? The disgrace in all of this is that the Government would have the brazen hard neck to lay at the feet of our young people its failure to provide opportunities. The half-baked Mickey Mouse schemes the Government comes up with to massage the live register figures will not cut...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: If, by chance, I am wrong, then I put it to the Taoiseach to prove me wrong and to reverse the cut specifically to jobseeker's payments. Prove I am wrong and make this decision and announce it in the Dáil this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not punish young people for Fianna Fáil.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the Taoiseach's legacy.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: From a Mickey Mouse Government. Correct, Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Wrong.