Results 121-140 of 579 for pension speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Other Questions: Ministerial Pensions (12 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I assure the Minister that I will never win the lotto. I asked the Minister for a list, in tabular format, of the annual pension payments to former Ministers and Taoisigh, sorted from high to low, including the recipients' names. I do not know how he will deliver that response, but he might tell us whether he regards the payments as prudent, modest and sustainable.

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...entity that is Irish Water. She has never once given me a straight answer. We now know the reason for her reticence. All along she was planning legislation to pickpocket people's wages, pensions and social welfare payments. The proposal is low, sneaky and a cowardly proposition in the face of mass public opposition to her water tax. That such a Thatcherite policy is being...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Howlin, repeated it again today, is that it protected social welfare entitlements. That is simply not true. Child benefit was cut. Young people’s jobseeker's allowance was cut. The invalidity pension was cut. Most shocking and cruel, the respite care grant was cut by €325. The Government intends to carry on true to form. Come July, in excess of 30,000 single parent...

Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...will address outstanding issues reflected in the Government's water package in November 2014. This is jargon or a euphemism for provisions to deduct unpaid water charges from people's wages, welfare payments or pensions. For months, I have raised this proposal that the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, has championed, and I have never received a...

Order of Business (16 Apr 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., has done quite an amount of sabre-rattling that has left a lot of people very angry, not to say concerned, about the Government's plans to deduct unpaid water charges from wages, welfare payments and pension payments. The Tánaiste has sung dumb on this issue on the many occasions on which I raised it with her, neither supporting nor denying the proposal by the Minister. When will...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...break, I want to return to the water services Bill or legislation which will allow the Government to deduct - essentially to pickpocket - water charges from wages, social welfare payments and pensions. When might we see it? The Minister, Deputy Kelly, has clearly signposted it. The Tánaiste was somewhat equivocal the other day on her position, but we know she supports these measures.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to wages, social welfare and pensions?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and answer, in the clearest of terms, that yes, she supports the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, in his enterprise to pickpocket wages, social welfare and pensions?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...this how it helps cash-strapped families? Is this its way? My questions to the Tánaiste are very simple. Does she support the proposal of the Minister to raid people's wages, social welfare and pension payments? Does she support his proposal to hike council rents and force landlords to retain deposits? Since when is it the role of the Labour Party to be Irish Water's and Fine...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (25 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Minister insofar as I do not believe anybody imagined that in one fell swoop pay, pensions and so on would be restored. I do not think there was any such expectation. I would like more detail from the Minister in respect of how he envisages the unwinding of FEMPI playing out. Where does he propose to start? Does he propose to start with pay or pensions? Is he considering...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (25 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister proposes to address pay and pensions in parallel.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Pensions (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 266. 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, following the Haddington Road agreement reductions, sorted by payment, high to low, including the recipient's name. [8077/15]

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...had access to a full and proper inquiry, much less an adequate remedy. There is deep unease among many survivors and their advocates about the legislation and, as Deputy Ruth Coppinger said, about pension entitlements. This amounts to a massive question mark over the legitimacy of any waiver signed. In any case, there is a broader issue about asking a citizen, particularly women and...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Another five people, including two minors and a pensioner, have been arrested in west Tallaght this morning. A further four people, again including a child, were arrested yesterday. Seventeen arrests have been made to date. It is reported that up to 33 people will be detained in the coming days. The scale of Garda resources deployed for these arrests stands in marked contrast to the lack...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for the independence of those organisations and institutions to be reasserted in circumstances of public concern or public doubt. What has happened here in a drip-drip way is that people, including pensioners and children, as I have mentioned, have been arrested right across west Tallaght.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has also extended the pension deadline for public service workers. Am I right in saying this is the third deadline? The original one was August 2014, which was then extended to June 2015. The Minister has now extended that further out to June 2016. What was the rationale for that?

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: As Deputy Daly has said, there is a serious outstanding issue in terms of "deferreds", as they are called, and their pension entitlements which many have seen literally decimated. Even if it is not the Minister's direct responsibility, I urge him to familiarise himself with it because a grave injustice has been done to people who have given massive service to Aer Lingus. One could not...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...being adjourned. It is in this same context that I now state most emphatically that, whatever their merits, neither this Bill nor the broader previously introduced scheme of ex gratialump sum payments and pensions to which it relates, represent adequate redress for those women who were resident in certain institutions - that is to say, the victims and survivors of the Magdalen laundries....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and accountability in the spending of public moneys, his views that it is acceptable for a public body fully funded by the Exchequer to withhold from the public record details of public service pension arrangements on retirement for senior managers; and if he will legislate to require all publicly funded bodies to make such information public in the interests of open Government. [49527/14]

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...payroll costs have also increased. What is the average salary level of staff members? How does it average out? I looked at some of the figures earlier. I reckoned payroll, including salary and pension liability, averaged out at about €93,000 or €94,000.