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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements if he will confirm if both the travel and accommodation allowance and the public representation allowance will now be fully vouched; and the date on which this change will come into effect. [56483/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements, if the reduction of 10% and more to the expenditure limits that comprise the parliamentary standard allowance will be applied to both the travel and accommodation allowance and the public representation allowance; if he will confirm the reduction he plans to make to both allowances and the date will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements, the date from which the 10% reduction to the party leaders allowance will come into effect. [56485/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Salaries (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to introduce the necessary legislation to abolish the severance payment to Ministers and other office holders paid to such persons when they cease to hold office; if he will confirm the number of current recipients of the allowance and provide in tabular form the names of these recipients and the amount each has received...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Salaries (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the saving to the Exchequer if Senators annual basic salary was capped at €60,000, TDs at €75,000, and all Government salaries at €100,000. [56951/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Pay (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56384/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the city and county managers that have taken office since 27 July 2012. [56394/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Pay (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56389/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Defence the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56382/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Pay (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56378/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Grades (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56387/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Tullamore General Hospital County Offaly has lost the medical records of a person (details supplied) for the period 1966 to 1980 and that the hospital is also unable to provide details of the patients prescriptions and referrals; the action he will take to ensure that the persons medical records are returned to...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The survivors of the Magdalene laundries were excluded from institutional redress schemes and have not received an apology from the State or a recognition of the abuse visited on them. When will the House have sight of the interdepartmental report on the Magdalene laundries? Will the Taoiseach assure Deputies that time will be provided for the Dáil to debate the report early in the new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in precise terms how he will honour the commitment given (details supplied) in the wake of the Budget to restore the core community services of home help, hours and home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57006/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health the further action he will now take in response to the Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in A,B & C vs Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57007/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. MacSharry and Ms Hayes for attending. To take up Deputy Michael Creed's point about the lack of a definition of what constitutes the public interest, I was struck by the fact that some of Mr. MacSharry's responses were almost in the style of de Valera looking into his heart and conscience to establish for himself-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is problematic that directors do not have a more pinned down directive sense of what is the public interest. Mr. MacSharry has articulated his obligations under company law. It is only fair to say that given what happened in the financial institutions and the consequences for the public, the public has a view to have its interests protected against those of the banks. Mr. MacSharry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do I take it that Mr. MacSharry is asserting the shareholder should change it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not hear any member say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of the shareholder, in a response to Deputy Shane Ross on 14 November, the Minister for Finance set out how he had last met the public interest directors on 17 May 2011. With whom did he meet from the institution?