Results 16,661-16,680 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Section 2B really cuts to the chase in what the Government is seeking to achieve with the legislation. On the one hand it reconfirms the strategy of dividing and conquering public sector workers, although the Minister is aware that a trade union is seeking legal advice on the constitutionality of treating different workers in a different manner on the basis of trade union membership or...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister pretends that he is somehow protecting that set of workers but he is doing absolutely nothing of the sort. The provision in this legislation gives the Minister and his colleagues in the Government the scope to do more of the same.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Section 2B really cuts to the chase in what the Government is seeking to achieve with the legislation. On the one hand it reconfirms the strategy of dividing and conquering public sector workers, although the Minister is aware that a trade union is seeking legal advice on the constitutionality of treating different workers in a different manner on the basis of trade union membership or...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister pretends that he is somehow protecting that set of workers but he is doing absolutely nothing of the sort. The provision in this legislation gives the Minister and his colleagues in the Government the scope to do more of the same.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So that is why it is there.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that not a recipe for duress?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I was talking about clerical officers on €32,000 per annum.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody is saying that clerical officers on €32,000 should take a hit.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: What does the Minister think?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Minister who wants to make savings in the public interest.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----because they simply cannot bear the indignity of such a salary. The Government has a very low opinion of hospital consultants-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and medics if that is its view of them. I hope we can debate that amendment later.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It could have been reduced.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is desperate.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: How will he pay his bills?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tell us about the reductions for clerical officers and real people.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I noted the Minister's commentary about the increments, where he corrected me and stated it would be better put if I had said that some increments should be protected. Would he care to enlighten us as to which of those increments should be rightly protected? In that remark, he seemed to concede the point. All of my amendments in this section were ruled out of order because they would...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That means that the general gist of the media reports that I saw was correct. I know that Ms Feehily said it was "sort of" true but it is in the first instance PAYE workers, occupational pensions, social welfare recipients and then, albeit in parallel, the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will that also be the pecking order in respect of the imposition of any levies for those who are non-compliant?