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Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Says the Taoiseach with the 14% unemployment rate. Is he joking?

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is re-running Croke Park II.

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I feel as if I have entered some kind of twilight zone in the Chamber. Those on the Government benches are lauding the Croke Park deal. Apparently, it was fair, progressive and equitable. The message seems to be coming from the Government that anyone with an ounce of wit would have understood that it was so. When workers came to vote, they had considered the matter very carefully. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the impact of the recent Industrial Relations Act on the wages of low paid workers; and the way his Department monitors the wages of highest paid workers to ensure cost competitiveness. [18617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received a copy of the Labour Court Review of ten existing JLC; and if he will outline when he will be able to form a view of its recommendations. [18616/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Adviser Pay (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 147. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular format a list of all his special advisers' pay and that of his Minister of State, to include each salary and name of employee above principal officer standard scale salary rate; and if he will supply the total pay bill for all his special advisors for 2012. [18356/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total moneys paid to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council since it was set up in 2011; and if he will assess the work of the council to date. [18249/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments planned for upgrading the deteriorating road surface along Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at two sections, the first between Darling Estate and the Hole in the Wall pub and the second between Nephin Road and Villa Park. [18248/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments planned for upgrading the deteriorating road surface along Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at two sections, the first between Darling Estate and the Hole in the Wall pub and the second between Nephin Road and Villa Park. [18248/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised) (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also object to the taking of this Estimate. The Minister was very prominent in the media, proclaiming to the nation that he was about to run out of money at the end of the year. He has identified a €300 million shortfall in the budget - I know he anticipated that from Croke Park II. As has been said workers were invited to ballot on that matter and they have decisively rejected...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised) (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is being disingenuous when he says we are just dealing with those elements that affect his Department. Of course we are, but this procedure will be mirrored across all other Oireachtas committees. The total will amount to €300 million as envisaged under Croke Park II - that is what he has accounted for in this Estimate. What is the message to public and civil servants,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised) (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is trying it on in respect of this matter. This is an attempt to strong-arm public service and Civil Service workers and it amounts to giving them the two fingers and turning a deaf ear to their wishes. It comes in the aftermath of all of the threats and bullying to which the Minister subjected them and their representative unions in recent months. I will also not participate...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised) (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is all right, Minister.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish the Taoiseach and his terrible twin in the Labour Party a happy birthday. Since yesterday the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, sought to ram Estimates for his Department through the committee. The Taoiseach has stated correctly the Estimates are apportioned Department by Department. Hardwired into each of them are the Croke Park agreement cuts....

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is on a salary – sorry, a remuneration package – of €843,000. That is €70,000 per month or over €16,000 per week.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Richie takes home in a fortnight what an average nurse earns in an entire year. How does the Taoiseach look public and civil servants in the eye, despite telling us that many of them are struggling just to get by? How does he look them in the eye when his approach is so heavy-handed with them? He demands that nurses, gardaí and emergency personnel take cuts to their wages and accept a...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am well aware that not only did Fianna Fáil set this remuneration package of €16,000 per week but also that the former Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mr. Joe Walsh, is chairman of the remuneration committee of the bank in question.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am fully conversant with the facts. The Taoiseach spoke about the need for clarity. In this episode there is absolute clarity: the outrageous remuneration package of a banker is not to be touched. The Minister for Finance, rather than register a protest in this regard, will abstain and allow this obscenity to go through on the nod. At the same time, the Government is eye-balling nurses,...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may claim and may have been brainwashed by his colleagues into believing 87% of public and civil servants are untouched by the deal.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When workers did the sums in respect of their households and families, they took a different view.