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- Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Publish the advice in that case.
- Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: With the agreement of the House, I will share time with Deputy Pearse Doherty. I am pleased to contribute to this debate, given that the issue of pensions in all its guises has loomed large in public debate in the last number of months. The state pension has been threatened, the Government has looted private pension funds, allegedly to fund investment in jobs, although the jobs have not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will speak last, with the forbearance of the wannabee Ceann Comhairle. He is cutting his teeth here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the Labour Party for you. Much of what Mr. Moran had to say in the document is about equity, leadership and very positive things. Equality is a political decision but it is also a policy decision. The last budget hit lower and middle-income groups disproportionately, in a way that even the previous austerity budgets did not. Where does fairness rank as a policy priority for Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: There will be a distribution assessment.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are going to the polls on Saturday to vote in the referendum on children's rights. Many citizens are very concerned about a number of matters. One of them is the family law courts and the lack of transparency and oversight in respect of their proceedings. When is it proposed to bring forward the Courts Bill? It would have been preferable to have had that legislation or the heads of...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach give an indication as to what the State response will be? I raise these issues because there are people who legitimately wish to underpin the rights of children but who have huge concerns in respect of the operation of the family law courts, the area of adoption and tracing and the continuing failure of the State to deal with illegal adoptions in the past.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----or pensioners and afford them the opportunity to take a cut voluntarily. It is mandatory for the little people. The Taoiseach will not step up to the plate and use the instruments available to him to deal with this matter. That is indefensible and disgraceful.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: We all know of cases.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's response to Deputy Martin's question on home help hours vividly reflects the fact that the Government lives in cloud cuckoo land. Those women in west Cork are not alone. Every Deputy could and perhaps should be in direct correspondence with the Taoiseach to set out the thousands of cases of older and disabled people being left in the lurch and abandoned by the Government....
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: If I might be allowed.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: On what basis?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That salary is the kind of money that we in this State reserve for retired bankers and politicians. Last night, we heard the news that the former AIB chief, Mr. Eugene Sheehy, bowed to public pressure and agreed to reduce his pension to a paltry €250,000 per year. This is the kind of money that the average citizen would only see if he or she was lucky enough to win the lotto. What...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----Mr. Alan Dukes, a former leader of the Taoiseach's party, and Mr. Dick Spring.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has invited-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----us to write to him in respect of home help hours and we will do that.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Taoiseach write to the politicians and bankers-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----in receipt of these exorbitant pensions?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: What will the Government do? It cannot intervene to save home help hours and-----