Results 19,301-19,320 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share my time with Deputy Sandra McLellan.
- Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was changed. It is important to say at the outset that the State and the Government continue to fail the women and children of the Magdalene Laundries and Bethany Home. It is to the great shame of the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party that they have done nothing to right the wrong perpetrated against these women and children despite having been so critical of the previous Government's...
- Written Answers — Water Services: Water Services (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 18: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed cost for the establishment of Irish Water. [22123/12]
- Written Answers — Strategy on Homelessness: Strategy on Homelessness (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 30: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to a target of providing 1,600 housing units for homeless persons this year and next year to help end long-term homelessness by the end of 2013; and his plans to achieve this target. [22174/12]
- Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the past 48 hours we have collectively revisited the horror of the rape, abuse and molestation of children and its cover-up in a way that I am sure has proven incredibly difficult for victims of abuse, whether they suffered it at the hands of clerics or anyone else. In that light, I welcome that the heads of the Children First Bill have been published and are in committee and the...
- Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to share my time with - or steal it from - Deputy Peadar TóibÃn.
- Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: This legislation is long awaited and desperately needed. I commend the Minister on the constructive engagement he has had with stakeholders and the Opposition in recent months. The Bill has the support of the entire construction sector, from house builders to general contractors, civil engineers, mechanical and electrical contractors, architects, building suppliers and the construction...
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: If I might welcome-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I welcome most sincerely the clarity and the forthrightness of the response of the Tánaiste. This is a matter I would like to return to today under promised legislation but I warmly welcome and acknowledge his response and, most particularly, the efforts of the Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, in the area of child protection. Yesterday the Tánaiste's party...
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste earns a salary in excess of â¬184,000. That is six times the average industrial wage. Two of his own special advisers-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----earn â¬168,000 and â¬155,000 respectively.
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Tánaiste set out for Members the position on high pay for politicians and tell the House what he proposes to do about these runaway, extravagant levels of pay?
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The short of it, then, is that the Tánaiste is defending the current pay rates of politicians. He thinks that, at a time of crisis, it is appropriate the Taoiseach takes home â¬200,000. He defends his own pay of â¬184,000.
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: What message are we sending to the people who are out of work or the lone parents who were so brutally dealt with in the recent social welfare legislation? Are we saying to them, or is the Tánaiste saying to them: too bad, things are tough, suck up the austerity, but we are okay, Jack? It strikes me that is the Tánaiste's message. His own pay doubled in the last year when he moved from...
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It defies all logic and rationality that they, the champions of austerity, the champions of cutbacks, defend these pay rates that cannot be justified and yet say to the public, to people who are struggling, that they have to take more and more hardship.
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is his salary.
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no limit to the Tánaiste's hypocrisy.
- Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is outrageous.
- Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. When asked yesterday if his Government would support this Bill ,the Taoiseach said "No", which hardly comes as a surprise. After all, protecting the most fundamental rights and expectations of workers has never been high on the agenda of the Fine Gael Party. It was left to the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, to defend the...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (2 May 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 107: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when his review of the pension entitlements or remuneration of existing city and county managers will be concluded. [20295/12]