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Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's welcome apology on behalf of the State was long overdue. The Magdalen women have waited, hoped and prayed for this moment. Many of them despaired that it might never come, but it has. Today saw a full acknowledgement of the wrong done to them. They were wronged. The State was complicit in their detention and abuse in the laundries. It oversaw a system of slave labour,...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: If I may be unorthodox and overrule the Acting Chairman, I will say to the people in the Public Gallery to work away. This is not the stuff of history. We would be fooling ourselves but no one else in the course of this debate if we believed for a second that this approach to vulnerable women and children was a thing of the past. It is not. It lives with us yet in society. Deliberate...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coillte Teoranta Lands (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the research his Department has conducted on the impact that the sale of the Coillte forest crop will have on tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8606/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact assessments that are carried out by his Department when deciding on funding cuts to public services like Bus Éireann in order to establish the likely impact on service and potential for resulting industrial disputes. [8585/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Numbers (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public sector workers as of the 31 January 2013. [8425/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the passing of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013, if it is still his view that former Taoisigh, Ministers, office holders and senior civil servants' pensions cannot be reduced on the basis that he considers such payments to be vested property rights. [8651/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Rights Issues (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the recently published Migrant Rights Centre Ireland Report December 2012 Part of the Family, which illustrates the way the unregulated au pair system is being used to facilitate cheap childcare and that leaves au pairs without basic protections, her plans to address the issue of au pairs here; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 7 February 2013, if any of the board members of the four bodies under the aegis of his Department gift their annual fee back to the State. [8272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Rights Issues (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality following the recently published Migrant Rights Centre Ireland Report December 2012 Part of the Family, which illustrates the way the unregulated au pair system is being used to facilitate cheap childcare and that leaves au pairs without basic protections, his plans to address the issue of au pairs here; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 556 of 29 January 2013, if the eight persons returned to their last port of departure from the State were Syrian nationals. [8722/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Employment Rights Issues (19 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs following the recently published Migrant Rights Centre Ireland Report December 2012 Part of the Family, which illustrates the way the unregulated au pair system is being used to facilitate cheap childcare and that leaves au pairs without basic protections, her plans to address the issue of au pairs here; and if she will make a statement on...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The only people engaging in pie-in-the-sky economics are those on the Government benches. Only a pie-in-the-sky formula would leave families across the State in limbo, struggling with mortgage distress and default, and hobbling along on interest-only arrangements with the banks.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: In its term in office the Government has engaged in what can only be described as gesture politics because it knows there is a big crisis with mortgage debt, as we all know.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It knows it needs to do something but is not prepared to grasp the nettle. It introduced a personal insolvency framework that leaves a veto with banks. What kind of craziness was that? It probably knows - I hope to goodness it knows - that there is a requirement for write-down which is the only way they can become sustainable. However, it is not prepared to say that out loud and face that...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: In my constituency I invite the Minister of State to visit the private rented accommodation along the North Circular Road, for example. I invite her to visit the bedsits in which people live.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I invite her to view the squalor in which citizens of this Republic live in 2013. I then ask that she review her rhetoric as regards choice. That is no kind of choice. It is in fact a kind of misery.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: On review of this Government record in office thus far, it would be fair to say that it lacks any coherent policy or approach in respect of homes and housing. The only coherent measure which it has brought forward is its property tax. Not satisfied with the misery of mortgage holders and people in distress, or with the substandard condition of local authority and private sector housing,...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not choice or coherence rather it is a Government in denial, a Government prepared to turn its face away from the needs of its citizens and slavishly follow the instructions of the troika and its European partners rather than face up to and deliver on the needs of citizens.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has decided on any specific issues, to bring forward in the coming months on the UN Human Rights Council . [8853/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (20 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of Trócaire’s 2013 Lenten campaign which shows the positive impacts for communities in the developing world when they are free to organise, operate and demand their rights, if he will, through both funding and diplomacy in Irish Aid’s priority countries, work to guarantee safe spaces for community...