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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (11 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 901. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reversing the decision of the National Centre for Pharmaeconomics decision to cease providing Pirfenidone to patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. [27275/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (11 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 902. To ask the Minister for Health the additional annual cost to the Health Service Executive budget for more frequent and longer hospital stays arising from the National Centre for Pharmaeconomics decision to cease providing Pirfenidone to patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. [27276/13]

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a "No" from the Taoiseach?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Shame on the Taoiseach.

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Incidence (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The facts revealed once again in today's Women's Aid annual report are shocking. They are not just shocking; they are depressing, because annually Women's Aid and other organisations release statistics which lay bare the reality of domestic violence in this State and the brutality that women and their children experience in their homes. We know that one in five women in Ireland will...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Incidence (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister claims I am consistently disappointed. I will remain disappointed so long as Women's Aid produces reports that reflect such statistics. Not only I but many women and citizens will remain disappointed if the Minister continues to delay the introduction of consolidated domestic violence legislation. Will the Minister take the opportunity today to give a date for the introduction...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Incidence (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is no capacity. The current services cannot cope.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking the Minister to repeal his lousy tax.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 56. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to aid local authorities in developing new more independent housing structures which could seek financing for the provision of social housing in a similar fashion to voluntary housing bodies. [27053/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 23: In page 8, subsection (4), line 14, to delete “or otherwise”. I propose the deletion of the words "or otherwise". My second amendment proposes to insert a new formula of words. The rationale for tabling them is that the Bill does not deal with an instance whereby a payer fails to respond to a payment claim. The amount to be paid should be the amount...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The value of the legislative framework is to make explicitly plain the parameters for the parties. I accept that people have recourse to the courts and can sue. Part of the logic behind this initiative is to minimise recourse to that type of procedure for time and expense concerns and to give comfort and certainty to contractors that moneys...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear the Minister of State is not accepting the amendments. However, where there is a failure to respond to the payment claim, there is a strong case for using every lever one can to incentivise the honouring of that amount and that is the purpose of this proposal. While the Minister of State has not said this, it in no way compromises any of the other procedures or processes...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: At the Minister will consider these matters between now and Report Stage, I will not press them at this stage. However, I give notice of their reintroduction on Report Stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 25: In page 8, subsection (1), line 27, to delete “work” and substitute “any or all of its obligations”.First, restricting the right to suspend work for non-payment to two weeks does not act as a sufficiently robust deterrent under the law. Unless this suspension limit is withdrawn, it could undermine fundamentally the driving purpose of the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He has acknowledged the problem posed by the 14-day proposition and as his proposal meets that concern, I welcome his amendment. I accept what the Minister of State said about health and safety concerns. He offered the example of scaffolding. Does he have any other scenarios in which the removal of the reference to work in order to introduce...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank you, a Chathaoirligh.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The objective of the amendments I have tabled is an effort to strengthen the hand of the little guy. I will not press the amendment. I take the remarks of the Minister of State and the Cathaoirleach on board.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 35: In page 11, before section 8, to insert the following new section: “8.—(1) The Minister shall from time to time select bodies to be included on a published list of adjudicator nominating bodies. (2) The Minister shall issue a code of practice governing the conduct of adjudicator nominating bodies. (3) The Minister may amend the list of approved...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This amendment is motivated by concerns that have been raised on a conflict of interest if the Minister appoints a panel of adjudicators and subsequently appoints a chairman to the panel to make selections when disputes are referred to the Minister. I propose the wording the Minister has before him to remove the concern. Furthermore, the chairman could be an officer within a Department...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why is it preferable that the Minister make the appointment, rather than him identifying the appropriate appointing bodies to establish these panels? The Minister of State is right in that the professional bodies are concerned about being shut out of the process but more to the point, these are the expert groups.