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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Maybe Mr. Callinan is telling me that several reports on the same issue landed on his desk and he cannot be sure from whom they emanated. Is that what he is saying?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The two gardaí were not alone in raising this substantive issue. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: You know whether the issue landed on your desk.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us forget the assumptions. At any stage, did a report - never mind the names attached to it - land on Mr. Callinan's desk in respect of the quashing of penalty points from the confidential recipient?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have established that the matter landed on Mr. Callinan's desk. It strikes me, then, as strange that it took a very public and unorthodox route for two of his officers to spark the investigation that happened. Perhaps Mr. Callinan can give an account of that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Equally, if individuals step forward and go through these channels, they have to be absolutely assured that the system works, that there will be an appropriate response and that they will not be left in a situation in which they have made a disclosure confidentially but nothing has happened.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Callinan intend to review the procedures for confidential disclosures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I suggest that Mr. Callinan look at that again? The system clearly did not work for the individuals concerned. They felt they made a disclosure, but that there was no action taken on foot of it. They were clearly frustrated into a position whereby they brought matters, through a different route, into the public domain. The response from management was an in-house investigation of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yet Mr. Callinan cannot account for the fact that there was a delay of several months between the time these two honourable people - and they are honourable people - made their disclosure and any action being taken on foot of it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Callinan's coming by this information happened to correspond with the matter being raised in the Dáil. It strikes me that there is a problem in this scenario, although I cannot put my finger on exactly what or why that is.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a clear clash between the Commissioner's account of events and the account of the two gardaí.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (21 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the prolongation of maturities in some of Ireland's debts will affect Budget 2014; and if he will outline the likely period of additional scrutiny including visits by the Troika or EU Commission these extensions will bring. [23945/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (21 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the Ballyhea says No Group and examined their proposals for economic recovery. [23946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Issues (21 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if in view of the issues raised in the Prime Time Investigates programme on the Bethany Home on 13 May 2013 and on-going calls for justice for survivors of the Bethany Home, he will put in place a redress scheme for survivors. [23686/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the rise in au pair placement agencies and on line recruitment if he will consider legislating to ensure that au pairs receive the protections entitled to all workers. [24449/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 55. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the recent findings of the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland into the recruitment and employment of au pairs, the steps he will take to regulate this industry and recognise that au pairs should not be outside of the employment protections. [24448/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the local employment clause contained within the DIT Grangegorman project contract. [24605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all public procurement contracts which contain local employment or social clauses. [24605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries Fund (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 198. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date by which Mr. Justice Quirke will report back to him with recommendations regarding the Magdalene Laundries Fund and accompanying matters. [24601/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries Fund (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 199. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the elderly Magdalene Laundries surviving women living in the US seeking to meet with Mr. Justice Quirke who due to ill health and or financial restraints have been unable to travel and in such instances have been told that they can only be accommodated if they are in a position to travel to Dublin at their...