Results 141-160 of 21,085 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Cheann Comhairle, with the greatest of respect, we are on the same ground. Micheál Martin can spare us and the nation his sanctimonious homilies on democracy. He has been here since 1989, which is a political lifetime. Never has such a brazen stroke been attempted. In all of the peculiar shenanigans of this place, there has never been something like this. The Taoiseach was quick...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are asking why. We should have an answer to this. It is as simple as this: the Taoiseach should not take people for fools. People know that for their interests to be protected and for politics and democracy to work, the Government has its prerogatives to discharge. We respect that. The Taoiseach needs to respect the duty and the prerogatives of the Opposition but he does not want...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: What exactly does Deputy Lowry have over the Taoiseach? What debt does he owe him? The former Fine Gael Minister, a rogue politician as the Taoiseach described him, is now kingmaker for the Government. This is a man the Taoiseach wants to sit in both government and opposition at the same time. The combined Opposition has repeatedly sought to meet with the Taoiseach to resolve this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is hell-bent on upending the democratic functioning of the Dáil to protect his grubby deal with Deputy Michael Lowry. Today the Taoiseach will try to ram through unprecedented changes to Dáil rules to allow Deputy Lowry and his group of TDs to sit in Government and Opposition at the same time. These are TDs who have pledged to support his Government in good days and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a person (details supplied) was granted incremental credit for non-teaching service; if not, the reason this applicant was refused incremental credit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13013/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Israel has resumed its genocidal war on the people of Gaza. Some 970 deaths over the past 48 hours have been reported by health authorities, the majority children, women and the elderly. Those who have died have died hungry. The attack follows Israel's total blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and doctors watch people die before their eyes. This is the horrific result of the impunity...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am not the Taoiseach.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Correct.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus, that is pathetic.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach did not do that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: You sang dumb, Taoiseach.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am happy to clarify that in fact I called the Deputies underlings and not lackies, just for the record.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I called them underlings not lackies.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the avoidance of doubt, they are in fact underlings and not lackies. I am happy to clarify that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are now four months on from the general election and we have only ten more sitting days until the Easter recess. The legislative priority of the Government so far was to get more money for junior Ministers. We have no committees established. The Government has sat on that matter. It has proven itself to be truly a do-nothing Government. The Dáil is effectively in cold storage....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask that the Government desists from this course of action, respects the role we have, as the Opposition, allows us to get on with our work and, dare I suggest it, you get on with yours.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are.