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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if senior staff in a college (details supplied) have been proven to have been negligent in their duty of care in protecting a whistleblower or have been proven to be involved in penalising a member of staff of a university or institute of technology under section 12(1) of the Disclosure Act 2014; the sanction for these persons in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for delays in dealing with serious cases of whistleblowing within colleges; the further reason colleges are not proactive in such cases; if his attention has been drawn to the costs involved and the failure to look after the physical and mental health of persons; his plans to help and reward persons who have stood up to wrongdoing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if whistleblowers who are on sick or stress related leave are paid in full; if not, the reason for same; if educational organisations contact whistleblowers on leave to ascertain their state of health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30323/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will try to say this as moderately as I can in order to allay the fears of some. Will the Taoiseach explain to me the basis of his statement at last week's Council meeting to the effect that the British might change their mind on leaving the customs union. Was that just him thinking out loud or was it based on something he had picked up from the British or heard from one of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is the modus operandiof the cosy relationship across the floor. It is quite all right.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have resigned myself to it. Is it true that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, threatened to pull the plug on the Taoiseach's Administration on the basis of the handling of the appointment to the Court of Appeal? Is it true that he threatened to pull the plug unless the Taoiseach guaranteed that the judicial appointments legislation would go through the Houses...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Am I to take it from that response that whereas the threat to bring down the Government was not made directly to the Taoiseach, it was, in fact, made to another Minister?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach ascertained or established with his colleagues if there was a threat to bring the Government down? That is what I am asking.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a rather standout piece of gossip.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That name has been withdrawn.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The concern specifically around the United States is not just the domestic policies pursued by this Administration but the global reach of the United States, which is unrivalled by the Cubans and the Venezuelans. The Taoiseach would accept that. It is very difficult to know where to start with the Trump Administration. On the one hand, people accept the reality that this man was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have absolutely no interest in the Taoiseach's analysis of the Bolsheviks, the Russian Revolution, the Wizard of Oz, his film choices or anything else. I asked a question about the undocumented Irish and I got precisely no answer.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was 1998.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are now at the end of June and we will take Second Stage this week. Is it realistic to imagine that we will have all Stages of this legislation dealt with, allowing for amendment if Members so wish, and allowing the time and space for full consideration? I understand it is the Taoiseach's intention to have these matters dealt with before we rise for the recess. While Sinn Féin will...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deal breakers.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Micheál Martin seems to have changed his tune on judicial appointments since last week. He seemed to be quite happy with the procedure that he enjoyed whereby he could just have a private tête-à-têtewith the Taoiseach on the relative merits of appointing-----

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----outside of any constitutional authority or any procedural regularity-----

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that I am familiar with. Those of us who support this legislation support it on the basis of modernisation, public confidence and accountability. The authorship of the legislation ought to be a secondary matter for anybody who cares about judicial appointments. I wish to raise this Bill with the Taoiseach because I am concerned about the issue of timing.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have no reason to doubt that the Taoiseach and other members of the Government were distressed to hear of this case. I accept that absolutely. I also accept that a review has been initiated and that the Minister, Deputy Harris, acted speedily. I have no reason to question that. However, in a fundamental way, that is to miss the very important point of who was responsible for this...

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