Results 17,081-17,100 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government back off the threat of the 7% across-the-board cut-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----"Yes" or "No"? Will the Government really respect the democratic verdict of the unions and their workers, "Yes" or "No"? These are pretty clear-cut questions, which even in-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----the absence of a thinking cap, even the Taoiseach should be able to answer.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government legislate for that?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So it will not.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not true and the workers know that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I rarely get it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yeah right.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Labour Party share that view?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, public sector workers dealt a body blow to the Government's austerity agenda with an overwhelming majority of unions saying "No" to Croke Park II. The truth of this matter is that workers correctly calculated that this was an unfair deal. They recognised that it would be bad for public sector workers and their families, bad for the public services on which we all depend and bad...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Everyone knows that we have to address the deficit but the Taoiseach's approach is unfair and unworkable. There are alternatives. If he is so concerned about making payroll savings, he should tackle the issue of excessive pay at the top of the public service and Civil Service. He should get a real deal on generic drugs, or why not a third tax rate on individual incomes over €100,000?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: These alternatives would raise the revenue the Taoiseach says is required to meet the troika target. Never mind reflecting or considering, will the Taoiseach respect the outcome of the unions' vote on Croke Park II? Will he now withdraw his threat of an across the board cut of 7%? Will he go back to the drawing board and look at the alternatives to raise the revenue he says he requires and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (17 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a Millward Brown survey that found that in addition to losing classroom subject teachers, many schools have also lost specialist teachers and that 40% of schools have lost learning support/resource teaching hours, while 37% have lost English-language support teaching hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17567/13]
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: They have not been happening.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to extend from these benches a message of solidarity to the people of Boston and the United States. There is no doubt that the row between the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, and the judges is unprecedented and unnecessary but the Taoiseach seems to be choosing to look the other way. Despite what the Taoiseach has said here this afternoon, the judges say that...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Given that the Taoiseach mentioned Castlebar, a taxi-driver I spoke to there put it very well when he said-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Castlebar native himself, he said that Sinn Féin had done more for the economy in Castlebar in one weekend than the Taoiseach had done in two years.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach clearly occupies a different reality to other people. He is clearly now saying to the judges that not alone does he not acknowledge that there are issues at play here and a difficulty with the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter; he is also saying to them that they are simply wrong. They say, very clearly, that communication has broken down. They are on the...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is not going to call the Minister to account and is not going to straighten this out. He talks about the independence of the Judiciary and in that context, I have a suggestion to make to him. My party colleague, Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, brought forward legislation to end the system of political appointments to the Bench. We should have an independent process to...
- Return to Writ: Meath East - Introduction of New Member (16 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I too, on behalf of Sinn Féin, welcome Deputy McEntee to the House. It is not alone the case that she is a young Member - I understand she is the youngest Member of the Dáil – but she is also a young woman Member of the Dáil. I wish her very well. When Deputy McEntee was elected she recorded that it was a bittersweet moment for her on the loss of her lovely father....