Results 16,541-16,560 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is serious.
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister accept that the UN Committee against Torture was critical not of Dr. McAleese but of the McAleese process? Does he accept that the committee views the report as incomplete because it does not pass muster in terms of the committee's recommendations? I would like to mention three of the key exclusions from the proposed redress scheme - the Summerhill centre in County...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the UN recommendations?
- Other Questions: Penalty Point System (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is it not very strange that it took an Oireachtas committee to make the blindingly obvious decision to refer this matter to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission? How can the Minister make any claims of transparency or stand over the process when he did not do the very thing that was so apparently necessary? The Oireachtas committees themselves have been in correspondence with...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received Mr Justice John Quirke’s recommendations taking into account the findings of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalene Laundries in view of details supplied; his views on the United Nations Committee against Torture’s opinion (details further...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has referred to no pre-emption in respect of the report from Mr. Justice Quirke. I put it to the Minister that there was a level of pre-emption from somewhere within Government, because details of at least elements of that report and its recommendations were, it seems, comprehensively leaked to RTE last weekend. This has caused serious upset among many women who have contacted...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know we need to bring this to a conclusion and I know people have varying views as to the quality of the second half of this meeting but this is a secondary concern. The fact is that during public session a very troubling possibility raised its head in respect of interference. I am not in a position to adjudicate as to the rightness or wrongness of it, but it has happened. As a committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: If this had happened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is what I said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not see any poodles in attendance at this meeting, and long may that be the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Dobermans as well, not looking at anyone in particular.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Irrespective of the tension between the Government and this committee, it is a serious matter if any member feels that a strategy has been deployed to undermine the Chair or mute and scupper the work of this committee. As this meeting is being held in public session, the comments and reflections from various members require a response from the Government. We are not naive. We understand...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Two matters arise from that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was it the case that when the answer given in respect of the trip to Dubai was no, Deputy McGuinness understood that to be the end of the matter? Did he accept that while he may have had a contrary view, they were the rules and regulations? If that is the case, why did he again pose the question in respect of the mission to Canada? That is what I am really getting at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: My point is that when Deputy McGuinness had established the position in respect of the mission to Dubai, it is strange that he would have posed the question again with regard to another mission. The Deputy referred to mending fences. It is clear that there were tensions within the Department and I have no doubt that some of these arose because the Deputy did not have an office or a desk....
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The tone of the correspondence is also cranky in respect of Deputy Martin, the then line Minister and now the leader of Deputy McGuinness' party. It is quite a stretch - even accepting the pressures involved - to insinuate any level of intimidation or ethical high-handedness on the part of the man who was both the Deputy's line Minister and party colleague. The atmosphere which obtained was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To the officials.