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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister tell us how he got on with the troika?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is sending out mixed messages because on the one hand he says he favours a negotiated settlement and that he will not act unilaterally. If that is the case he is not legislating unilaterally, never mind for a 7% cut. That suggests that he is going to go back and re-engage with the unions and the workers. The point is well made in respect of the Estimates and the factoring in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are other places he can find the €300 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should come clean and tell us what he is proposing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has answered nothing

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order, I respect the fact that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle must run an orderly shop and that questions must be time limited but it is disgraceful on such a critical issue that the Minister can come in and talk down the clock and not answer parliamentary questions. This is not an informal arrangement.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are parliamentarians asking for answers from the Minister and he has spectacularly failed to give them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: By all means, the Minister can make his own speech. I have no objection to that but I strongly object that he was asked straightforward questions which he has refused to answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not a casual conversation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That makes a farce of this Question Time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the State assets that he intends to dispose of in 2013. [18002/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I like to believe that when the Minister came to office - this may be wishful thinking on my part, but perhaps he will indulge me - he would never have imagined himself as being responsible for butchering the public service, for protecting the people at the top of that service in a very calculated and deliberate way or for selling off State assets. I am sure he will concede that Bord...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is part of their value. The Minister indicated that the sale transaction will be formally launched in a couple of weeks and that it will be completed by the end of the year. Will he inform the House of the extent to which he has engaged in discussions with the unions which represent the employees of BGE? The Minister did not refer to Coillte. Is this an indication that the sale of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: So that to which the Minister referred was his plan all along.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is engaging in a degree of historical revisionism in the context of energy prices within the State. Those prices shot up as a result of the adoption of a European Union directive that insisted upon deregulation of the market. The Minister is correct: those prices were increased to artificially high levels and then maintained in order to make what is a very small market alluring...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The changes to which were driven by EU law.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: How much will the State get?

Other Questions: Departmental Staff Training (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who would provide the coaching?

Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is very gallant of Deputy Durkan.

Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme (18 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have heard the Minister called lots of things but never Hercules. That is great. The Minister is fixated on the need to find €300 million within the public sector payroll. Has the troika instructed him that it must be found there, or is it the case with many policy areas, including the sale of State assets which we just discussed, that the targets are set and the troika is...