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Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to the physical environment, which are welcome. There are some incredibly innovative approaches being taken. My particular favourite is called "city orchards", which is the use of derelict spaces for apple and pear trees and involves education as well as precinct improvements, all of which is good. However, the bottom line is that the main physical improvement that needs to happen in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in the paper in question, from 90% to 100%. We know from a letter that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, sent to Deputy Pearse Doherty that the Department of Finance admits that Apple raised these precise changes in 2014 during the passage of the Finance Bill. The Department will not release the minutes of four meetings it had with Apple which was the largest beneficiary...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...to live will make of this or what the 494 patients who were on trolleys yesterday might make of this. This cosy tax-free deal for the banks really amounts to another bailout for them. Much like the Apple tax debacle, it emerges again that the Taoiseach's message to the corporate world is that it can keep the people's money and that he is prepared to tolerate citizens living in doorways...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The best girl will stand there presently. I wonder did they all bring apples to the Taoiseach this morning-----

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...or punishment, often for minor or imagined infractions, following family disputes or as a result of abuse or neglect in their own homes. I have met a survivor who was sent to a laundry for stealing an apple when she was hungry. These are the women who, in these institutions and with State collusion, were subjected to arbitrary deprivation of liberty, forced labour, and inhuman and...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: In comparing the system here and the one in place in the North he is comparing apples and oranges.

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...until at least 1983. These committals were far worse than the equivalent prison sentence as the women were incarcerated for periods far exceeding their original sentences. In many cases, the crimes in question were as simple as the theft of an apple or a pen. The stigma attached to incarcerations in the Magdalene laundries was horrendous. It is for this reason, perhaps above all...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...high level priorities to be monitored; more accountability; transparency; multi-annual departmental budgets; and a citizen-centred approach to public service reform. In other words, motherhood and apple pie. By contrast, Fine Gael, the party of small government, promised a 10% cut in public sector numbers and an increase in workload for frontline staff, who are to take up the additional...