Results 101-120 of 579 for pension speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...at us almost as a political charge or insult, but we take it as neither because it is true. It is a statement of fact to record the levels of poverty in places such as west Belfast where child poverty and pensioner poverty exists. It is also true to say that those same trends in poverty indices are alarmingly pronounced west of the River Bann. There is a regional division in terms of...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...half of the population with its €100 water conservation grant - wink, wink - and then intimidate the other half with a threat of attachment orders, court proceedings and sticking its hands into their pensions, welfare and wages. Newsflash for the Taoiseach: none of that has worked.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Under the Haddington Road agreement, and a side deal struck thereafter, former Ministers and taoisigh are to receive an increase in their pensions. The Taoiseach will be aware that this has gone down like a lead balloon in the public sphere. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it? He has passed the ball to the recipients rather than the Government acting to remedy it. Last week,...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...at those who cannot pay but rather at those who can pay but choose not to." This point cuts to the quick of the issue. In the view of Fine Gael and, sadly, the Labour Party, people on fixed social welfare incomes or pensions are well able to pay for something as basic as domestic water. The two parties continue insisting on this despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. That...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Exchequer Savings (1 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Expenditure and Reform the annual saving to the Exchequer if the following Top Level Appointments Commission terms were removed from all currently serving Secretaries General, special severance pension payment to the value of half a year’s pay; and retiring on a full pension with ten added years. [26612/15]

Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...respect of the Water Services Bill, the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Kelly, told us that they would introduce measures by which unpaid water charges could be taken from people's wages, welfare or pensions. As there does not seem to have been any mention of that legislation since, can the Tánaiste tell us what timetable is envisaged in respect of its introduction?

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: That did not materialise. Not to put too fine a point on it, what has happened is that the deferred pensioners in particular have been thrown under the bus by the Government. The Minister met them, as did the Tánaiste, and undertakings were given that they would be given a fair hearing and that something would be done to rectify the situation. However, the Government did not want to...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...are not fooled for a second by the Minister's conditional and half-baked, halfway-house "guarantees". They do not cut the mustard for them. Even more shocking is the Minister's attitude towards the pensioners. He met with the group of 1,500 deferred pensioners who had received letters of comfort from Aer Lingus. Most had given huge service to the company and they were given a clear...

Order of Business (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: On all bloody sides. I object to the motion and the manner in which it is being handled. We have been asked to deal with a very serious decision with long-term consequences for workers, pensioners and the State in a manner that is wholly unsatisfactory and without sight of relevant and necessary documentation. Whereas the Government might be happy to rely on the shifting and qualified...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., because promises and letters of comfort, as she is probably aware, have a very poor track record in respect of that company. The Tánaiste's words will be of no comfort either to the Aer Lingus pensioners and deferred pensioners. She should remember this group, because both she and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Donohoe, met them. She let them down. She...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: In many instances, those deferred pensioners have seen their pension entitlement slashed by 50%, and more in some cases.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is how well the Government honoured that set of pensioners. Now, under this scheme, these pensioners get nothing. They get nothing, bar, perhaps, the two fingers from the Government.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The privatisation by this crew was wrong and the Government is simply completing its work. Having ranted and raved, they now complete the work of Fianna Fáil and leave workers, pensioners and the State very vulnerable.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...report which envisages a very clear recipe of redundancies, out-sourcing and damage to terms and conditions of employment. What the deal also envisages is exactly and precisely nothing, nada, for pensioners, particularly deferred pensions whom I am sure the Tánaiste remembers.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The pensioners are to get nothing, but the executives are to enjoy a bonanza, pay-outs of the scale of a bonanza. Riddle me this: how does this tally in any shape or form with what we might understand as the national interest? How will the Government ever convince people that we are in a stronger position without a share in Aer Lingus as opposed to having a strategic 25% share? The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Pension Provisions (19 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 228. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the calculated losses to Garda pensioners, when those who are currently paid under the advance payment system are moved to an arrears payment system; the mechanisms that will be put in place to mitigate these losses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19254/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (14 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons who receive estimated bills from Irish Water will have their moneys taken directly from their pay, pension or social welfare payment should their bill go unpaid. [18971/15]

Other Questions: Ministerial Pensions (12 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of these payments which I acknowledge are lawfully due and made and low paid workers within the civil and public service. It is probably opportune that a question has been raised about these bumper pensions for the great and the good on the same day that in this Chamber the Minister cannot make a commitment and has not mandated officials to zero in specifically on that set of workers...

Other Questions: Ministerial Pensions (12 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in the Public Interest, FEMPI, legislation, changes and reform that he claims have been introduced, the central disparity within the system - in which small numbers of people are overpaid and over-pensioned but as one moves down the chain people are on poverty wages, and we talk about the working poor but these are the working poor in the employment of the State - and the failure even to...

Other Questions: Ministerial Pensions (12 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the annual pension payments to former Ministers and taoisigh, sorted by payment, high to low, including the recipient's name. [18246/15]