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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister used that language in his initial response to me. These people have not been hit really hard at all. They should not be in receipt of these pensions at this level. The national interest and the common good require these pensions to be reined in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should just publish the advice.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Labour Party way is to take 5% off these pensions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It must be a joke.
- State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I commend the Deputies of the Technical Group on introducing this comprehensive motion. The motion sets out not just the considerable value of Coillte to our economy, but the importance of Coillte and our woodlands to society and our communities. Coillte is an important rural employer. At a time when we have almost 15% of our population on the live register, Coillte's role as an employer...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Remuneration (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer if all annual public sector pay, to include local authorities and State agencies, was capped at €100,000. [10428/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Remuneration (27 Feb 2013)
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Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the saving to the Exchequer if public sector increments were withdrawn for all pay under €50,000, between €50,001 and €60,000, between €60,001 and €70,000 and more than €70,000. [10429/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home, Navan Road, Dublin was added to the institutions covered by the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme by Statutory Order No. 518 of 2005. [10707/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism will be placed on a statutory footing. [10700/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism will include an independent appeals mechanism. [10701/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if surviving women wishing to avail of legal representation, for example women who wish to remain anonymous, that this will be allowed within the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism. [10702/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it his intention to withhold access to redress from surviving women of the Magdalene Laundries who have previously received supports from the Residential Institutions Redress Board for abuses suffered whilst in an industrial school. [10704/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons the Magdalen Laundry review terms of reference refer only to women who are now resident in Britain; and if surviving women who now reside outside Ireland and Britain will be able to access the Magdalen Laundry fund. [10703/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the formal action he will take to ensure the religious orders are brought to account for their role in the Magdalene Laundries abuse. [10705/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (27 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will include the survivors of Bethany Home in the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism noting the principle of due diligence which provides that where State authorities knew of actual human rights abuses by non-State actor as recorded for example during State inspections of Bethany under the Registration of Maternity Homes Act and failed to...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On 10 November last the people voted to enshrine the rights of the child in the Constitution. At the time the Tánaiste said the referendum was an opportunity "to state clearly and unequivocally that we, the Irish people, value children and childhood." That was the rhetoric and we know the reality has been very different. The reality is that the Government, through the Department of...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: BRYR in Ballymun will lose nearly €150,000, while the Finglas Youth Resource Centre will also be hard hit. There are many others that I could list for the Tánaiste. Each of these projects that deals with children on the front line, some of them in crisis, others in trouble, represents real value for money and the State gets bang for its buck. Every cent invested in our youth...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The establishment of Departments and changes to the Constitution are only of value if they are actioned, become a reality and inform public policy. For all of the Tánaiste's rhetoric, the truth is the youth affairs budget has been cut by 10%. This will directly translate into a 14% cut for the SWAN project in the North Wall. This project caters for 350 young people and does immensely...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is a difficulty with all of them.