Results 17,901-17,920 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Tánaiste have a view on it?
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. I object to this matter going through without debate. The Supplementary Estimate seeks an additional €35 million for the payment of Civil Service pensions. I recognise that the vast bulk of civil servants are in receipt of very modest pensions, with €30,000 being the norm, but the Government has categorically failed-----
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----to deal with the excessive pension pots of a minority. It is unacceptable to look for €25 million in additional resources one week before another vicious budget when the Government will not deal with the issue of runaway pensions and pension pots.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today we read details of the Government's plan to tax the family home, leaked to the media by the Government. The plan to tax the family home is straight out of Fianna Fáil's four year plan.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: This Government is continuing to implement Fianna Fáil's austerity plan.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am glad that Fianna Fáil has had a Pauline conversion on the road to Damascus.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That party now opposes its own policy, it seems, in a truly remarkable spectacle of political gymnastics.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The party might be a bit late in terms of convincing the electorate, however. The plan to tax the family home is a crazy policy.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste knows that we are dealing with the consequences of a burst property market; that people were ripped off and paid outrageous sums for houses which have subsequently lost 50% or more of their value; that young couples are left raising children in one and two bedroom apartments or houses that are too small, with no prospect of moving on; that there are 160,000 families in...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste ought to be ashamed of himself for doing this.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why is the Government continuing to take the soft options? Why does the Government continue to place the burden on low and middle income families, on the coping classes and the working poor? Why is it that the Government is continuing with this plan to tax people's homes which is one of the failed policies of Fianna Fáil?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not think that the Tánaiste's attempts at diversion qualify as an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: If he had done his research, the Tánaiste would know that the rates system in the North is a world away from the tax that his Government proposes to place on the family home.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a world away from it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: How does the Tánaiste imagine families will find an additional €400 or €500? Where are the exemptions? The media reports refer to deferrals of payment of the tax on the family home but a deferral is not a waiver. I ask the Tánaiste, at the very minimum, to reassure those who are out of work, who live on a pension and those who literally count the cents - not the...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The information came from a Government source.
- Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am pleased to open this section of the debate this evening. Seven months have passed since the House last debated legislation to give effect to the 1992 Supreme Court ruling in the X case. Sinn Féin supported the passage to Committee Stage of that legislation, which was tabled by Deputy Clare Daly last April. We will support this Bill in the same way tonight. We are taking this...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Mary Lou McDonald: There is a shocker.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Mary Lou McDonald: My proposal is that for pensions of between €60,000 and €80,000, we should shift the levy from 12% to 20%, that for a pension between €80,000 and €100,000 we would move the levy from 12% to a levy of 50% and for anything above €100,000, the levy would move from 20% to 99%. In other words, we would end the phenomenon of pensions above €100,000 for...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Mary Lou McDonald: That is the point.