# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 2 May, 2013
The Tánaiste says Ireland’s model has always been to cut costs, while also increasing investment to encourage growth.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Enda Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this afternoon after the Cabinet had earlier suspended its meeting without agreement on a draft abortion law.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Opposition parties say Brendan Howlin shouldn’t have compiled Budget figures assuming that Croke Park 2 would be accepted.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
TDs from Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and the independent ranks say Budget figures should not assume the passage of Croke Park 2.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Enda Kenny says the outcome of the Croke Park 2 vote doesn’t change the Government’s need to cut public payroll costs.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 28 March, 2013
“The government is not disciplining anybody,” the Tánaiste says, saying Garda discipline is a matter for the Commissioner.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 21 March, 2013
While 43,000 households were exempted from last year’s household charge, only 5,100 households have been exempted from the local property tax.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Eamon Gilmore asked Sinn Féin whether it would encourage people to be tax compliant and pay the property tax later this year.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 21 February, 2013
The position became vacant following the death of Fine Gael TD Shane McEntee in December.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Friday 15 February, 2013
TDs, Senators and MEPs are only legally required to disclose donations if a single donor gives more than €634.87.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Minister Howlin told the Dáil that although Minister Reilly still has not seen the leaked draft report, Savita’s husband Praveen would be the first person to get the published report.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
“That is not an apology… it is a cop out,” survivors said of Enda Kenny’s comments in the Dáil this afternoon.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Deputies Willie O’Dea and Mary Lou McDonald spoke about the issue during Leader’s Questions in the Dáil today.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 20 December, 2012
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James Reilly, Mick Wallace and Mary Lou McDonald are among Vincent Browne’s political award winners.
James Reilly, Mary Lou McDonald and Mick Wallace were among the award winners.
# mary-lou-mcdonald - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Minister Shatter said that this is due to the new work for the courts as a result of the Personal Insolvency Bill.
# mary-lou-mcdonald - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
The motion was defeated with Labour TD Pat Rabbitte calling it “parliamentary farce”.
# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Pat Rabbitte said the government had had to choose between cutting carer’s allowance or cutting respite care.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
The Dáil will tonight start debating a Sinn Féin motion to legislate for the X Case. Government TDs have been told they must not vote in favour of it, even if they privately support it. What do you think – should TDs be allowed to vote freely?
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 15 November, 2012
“This will not be the seventh government to neglect and ignore this issue,” Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore told the Dáil this morning.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
Delegations from Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil are meeting the Troika this morning.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Simon Harris is down with the kids.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 4 October, 2012
The Tánaiste says locating individual sites in towns put forward for primary centres was done by the HSE.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 27 September, 2012
The Minister for Social Protection says every member of government “has confidence in every other minister”.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
Phil Hogan has been called on to explain his intervention in the housing of a Traveller family in his constituency. Earlier the Environment Minister hung up on a local radio station.
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Enda Kenny says last night’s statement from the ministers of Finland, Germany and the Netherlands does not change EU policy.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Monday 24 September, 2012
Sinn Féin’s deputy leader commented on the Sunday Telegraph interview this evening.
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The junior finance minister says that salaries of over €100,000 paid to people in the public sector is “the biggest area” the government needs to look at.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Friday 21 September, 2012
Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald has heavily criticised the national think tank’s latest economic report.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 20 September, 2012
The Tánaiste accuses left-wing TDs of failing to come up with their own proposals for how a property tax should be levied.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
Can SF hope to represent voters on a 32-county basis, asks David McCann, when they can’t keep their policies aligned north and south of the border?
# mary-lou-mcdonald - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, the Sinn Féin vice president picks an address by Ireland’s most famous female revolutionary nationalist.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 26 July, 2012
Speaking at the MacGill Summer School, McDonald said that the Government’s action plan on jobs ticks all the boxes – bar creating jobs.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 10 July, 2012
The British Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did not extend an invite to Ireland for this week’s London Family Planning Summit.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Monday 9 July, 2012
Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin has revealed that six ministerial advisers including his own breach the €92,000 cap he introduced last year.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 28 June, 2012
The public expenditure minister tells the Dáil that lower-paid public servants will not have their increments cut.
# mary-lou-mcdonald - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
Enda Kenny said his government remained committed to negotiations to reduce Ireland’s banking debt.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Monday 4 June, 2012
Mary Lou McDonald has said that the Irish taxpayer is again being made to foot the bill for the debacle at the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
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# mary-lou-mcdonald - Thursday 31 May, 2012
Your essential evening round-up of the day’s biggest news, plus the bits and pieces you may have missed…
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The Defence Forces’ bomb disposal team made safe and analysed the device at the Sinn Féin TD’s office in Dublin’s North Strand.
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