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Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has not told me when the examination of the 3,000 slides will begin. I could also reflect on the Taoiseach's confirmation that the Scally report will be produced in its own good time. I am not challenging the process, which has to be independent. I would have thought that a Government that understood the urgency and seriousness of these matters would give one direction to Mr....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Ms Christine Lagarde. [30411/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (11 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protected disclosures policy and procedures in place for employees in the further education sector prior to enactment of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014; and the Higher Education Authority's role in the oversight and implementation of such disclosures prior to 2014. [31164/18]

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Can they be published?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is important not to have a false argument. Although there are brass plate operations, I did not hear anybody make a blanket assertion that all of the large foreign direct investment corporates are simply brass plate operations. I hear an increasingly unanswerable case for fair taxation, for large corporate entities to pay their fair share, but that does not represent an attack on large...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course. Everybody wants people to be in jobs. That is the type of nonsense that has prevented a thoughtful debate on fair taxation in this jurisdiction. The minute one mentions fair play in terms of corporate entities-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I support foreign direction investment and the generation of high quality jobs, just as the Deputy does.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Everybody wants people to have decent work. Taxes are needed because we have to pay for things.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I have seen documents from the Department of Finance and the then Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation related to the decision taken by the former Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, to raise to 100% the amount of intangible assets multinationals could write off against profits in any given year. The result of this decision was a massive placing onshore of billions of euro of such...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know how many Government backbenchers there are.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the point. An equal point is that is a very small group.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: In addition to the questions raised by colleagues I ask about the programme for Government commitment that as part of the next wave of local government reform, the Minister, having consulted widely with all relevant stakeholders, will prepare a report for the Government and the Oireachtas by mid-2017 on potential measures to boost local government leadership and accountability. That report...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Bingo. The Minister of State has it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: When will the rest of us have it? I very much doubt the Minister of State will hand it to me across the Chamber. When will it be made available to Members of the Oireachtas and the public?

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Page 62 of the programme for Government commits to the establishment of an independent patient advocacy service and this has not been met. Last Saturday, there were rallies throughout the State standing for women in support of the victims of the CervicalCheck scandal. Despite all of the pronouncements and announcements from the Taoiseach and others, serious issues remain for the women...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I beg to differ.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not confused at all. I am clear that the political agreement in December found legal expression in the protocol drafted in March. I am clear that from the moment and hour the British caught sight of it, they have consistently rejected it. Here is what we need clarification on. The British would say we need a backstop. In other words, they disavow what was agreed to in December, in...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Over the weekend we watched as yet another calamitous chapter in the Tory Brexit debacle unfolded. Two years on from the Brexit referendum, the British Government produced a three-page document. The world was told that it represented a unified approach to Brexit in the British Cabinet. As we now know, that narrative began to unravel on Sunday evening with the resignation of Mr. David Davis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work will resume on a pitch (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30957/18]