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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2021)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...locked out of work despite the reopening. She described her experience and said that for the first six months of lockdown, her family availed of the mortgage break and that when that went, the family tapped into their savings. Now that money is gone too. How on earth is it fair to say to this woman or thousands of workers like her who will not be back at work in September and may not be...
- Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...Reform, Deputy Donohoe, has a brass-iron neck to stand in this Chamber and issue a kind of threat to the population that it is water charges or else. He has suggested that the Government will charge for the water in the tap because if it does not do so then hospital services and the housing supply issue will be affected. How dare he stand here and speak about opportunity costs? Would...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...or sister who finds themselves out of work, must now worry not only about making the rent and paying electricity bills but also about getting into debt or into trouble because of the water that comes from the tap. It is another pressure - whether to boil a kettle or wash a child. There is something ethically troubling about going down that road. The people who cannot pay and those who...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: ..., where it finally listened to the commonsense of the people. It could have been the moment when it understood that people cannot and will not pay a charge for the water that comes through their taps - the moment it abolished water charges. Good sense could and should have prevailed. Instead, the Government chose to portray the people's opposition to the water charges as short-term...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is it neutral to demand a water charge from families who have contaminated water in their taps?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...in financial distress and struggling to keep a roof over their heads, to pay for the water they use to wash, to cook and to live? Is the Minister's own domestic water supply safe? The water in the taps of many people in County Roscommon is not, as I am sure he is aware as he traverses that county looking for people's votes in the by-election.
- Constitutional Convention: Motion (10 Jul 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...to get that right. While citizens who will be drawn to participate and those who are elected to the Dáil and the Seanad will have views and expertise, there is a wealth of experience that must be tapped into to enrich the debate. Civic society could have been given a more pivotal role in this process, and it is a great pity that this is not the case. As Deputy White mentioned, the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...says he is concerned to invest in the economy and wants a finance stream to invest in job creatopm. That is good. He knows as well as I do that there are many alternative streams which can be tapped for that purpose. The National Pension Reserve Fund should not be used to prop up zombie banks.