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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: If we go back to section 8, it states that the Minister shall from time to time select persons to be members of a panel to act as adjudicators in regard to payment disputes and shall select one of those persons to chair the panel.

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 Minister of State should look at section 8(1) again. Subsection (3) for instance states further that the Minister may for good and sufficient reason remove a member of the panel.

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: That is not what the wording says, although I accept that is the intention.

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. 38: In page 12, before section 11, to insert the following new section:11.—Every public procurement capital project to the value of €1,000,000 or over shall include a social clause containing the following provisions—(a) main contracts to include a requirement that the main contractor recruits one long-term unemployed person, either directly or...

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: We would like to get an idea of when Report Stage might happen. I am conscious that we will go into recess towards the end of July and it would be ideal if we could have this business concluded before them.

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 8. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received Mr Justice John Quirke’s recommendations taking into account the findings of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalene Laundries in view of details supplied; his views on the United Nations Committee against Torture’s opinion (details further...

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has referred to no pre-emption in respect of the report from Mr. Justice Quirke. I put it to the Minister that there was a level of pre-emption from somewhere within Government, because details of at least elements of that report and its recommendations were, it seems, comprehensively leaked to RTE last weekend. This has caused serious upset among many women who have contacted...

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do I get an opportunity to respond?

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is serious.

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister accept that the UN Committee against Torture was critical not of Dr. McAleese but of the McAleese process? Does he accept that the committee views the report as incomplete because it does not pass muster in terms of the committee's recommendations? I would like to mention three of the key exclusions from the proposed redress scheme - the Summerhill centre in County...

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the UN recommendations?

Other Questions: Penalty Point System (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it not very strange that it took an Oireachtas committee to make the blindingly obvious decision to refer this matter to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission? How can the Minister make any claims of transparency or stand over the process when he did not do the very thing that was so apparently necessary? The Oireachtas committees themselves have been in correspondence with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date by which he will conclude his consideration of an apology and redress for the small number of surviving men and women of Bethany Home. [28247/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We do not have all day so we will try to go by the Vice Chairman's maxim on brevity. Deputy McGuinness initially gave the impression that when he made the inquiry about his wife travelling with him it was almost a casual inquiry which sparked a litany of e-mail traffic. I put it to Deputy McGuinness that on reading some of the correspondence one does not form that impression. I will quote...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not questioning it. Deputy McGuinness has made it absolutely and abundantly clear. I absolutely accept that the issue of Deputy McGuinness carrying the costs was made explicitly clear and it is implicit in the documentation. I am not questioning that. I am suggesting that on reading the correspondence it strikes me that this official, at any rate, did not interpret Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Deputy McGuinness said-----

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not gainsaying any of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will step us through the correspondence to keep us somewhat focused and with an eye on the clock. I put it to Deputy McGuinness that this official was an assistant secretary. Let us take that window into what occurred. It strikes me that the official did not view it simply as a casual throwaway consideration. Let us move forward to the correspondence of Deputy McGuinness. I understand...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.