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Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here is my question.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: If I may pose it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no point in the Taoiseach crying over how unfair is the world.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach raise the issue of the interest rate reduction for all of the deal? More importantly, will the Taoiseach urge our European colleagues to finally look in the eye the issue of the unsustainability of the debt burden and take measures to resolve that issue, which is at the core of our problems?

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am beginning to suspect that the ten years of the bailout agreement will have run out and the Taoiseach will still be coming in here telling us that he will do the business on the interest rate.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach continually refuses to deal with the issue of burden-sharing, an issue which he was very keen on during the election campaign. Last week, senior unsecured and unguaranteed bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank were paid in full for a bond of €200 million. At the same time, the Government was running around looking for €100 million in respect of the fair deal scheme to give some...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the penny drop with the Taoiseach and his colleagues that the issue of the private debt with which the State has been burdened must be dealt with? He correctly said that other member states act in their national interest.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well done to the Taoiseach for figuring that out; the challenge for him is to act in the interest of this State and its citizens and so far, he and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, have abjectly failed in that task.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The point has been made that the range of issues to be covered by the committees is such that, even aside from the issue of accountability which is critical, the capacity of them to act efficiently and really deal with the issues at hand is compromised. We object to the fact that these matters are to be decided without debate. I want to raise in particular the issue of the Committee of...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government, very cynically and inappropriately, slipped the reversal of the cut in the minimum wage into social welfare legislation, presumably to give some cover to Labour Party Deputies-----

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----who will vote for an increase in the pension age. It was reduced in a finance Bill and all of us know it should be re-instated through that same mechanism. That is the cynical politics it is at. To add to that, it wants to guillotine the debate on it.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: So much for honesty, transparency, telling it like it is and allowing full and frank debate.

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not have any sense of urgency from the Taoiseach in regard to this matter. I never had him chalked down as the shy, retiring, shrinking violet type, so I do not think it was this that led to his failure to raise this matter directly with the British Prime Minister. The Taoiseach said he discussed the bigger implications of the bailout deal. Did he discuss the issue of burden sharing,...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach last week told Irish diplomatic staff to go back to their posts internationally and tell everybody the happy news - not - that the Irish people will continue to bail out bankers, speculators and people who gambled and lost. He was not shy about setting out that message - a bad message, as far as I am concerned. At what point, then, does the Taoiseach engage the British Prime...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a time to be shy. When will the Taoiseach raise this with the British Prime Minister? Will he put the issues of burden sharing and debt on the agenda?

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I am sure the Taoiseach's homage to the US President was appreciated, albeit with nothing like the utter gratitude of Fianna Fáil for the Government's pursuit of its policy agenda. I am more interested in what the Taoiseach might have told President Obama about his attitude to burning senior bondholders. I pursued the Taoiseach...

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I invite the Taoiseach to answer the question. What is his position with regard to the senior bondholders?

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I referred to Anglo Irish Bank.

Written Answers — Traveller Community: Traveller Community (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the statistics which show that only one in every ten children from the Traveller community who enrols in school goes on to complete his or her post-primary education; and, in view of these statistics, his plans to address this crisis. [14459/11]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional measures he intends to introduce to tackle the increasing numbers of second level students attaining low grades in mathematics, science and technology, as detailed by a European Commission report published in April 2011. [14460/11]