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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am glad that FÁS is conducting that research. With all due respect to FÁS, such research should have been standard practice for many years.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which she will publish new guidelines to reform the rules regarding the habitual residency condition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33252/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (9 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the Budget 2013 cuts to respite carers' grant. [33253/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (10 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that he intends to ratify International Labour Organisation convention 189 on domestic workers; and the timescale for its ratification. [33514/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 52. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the time scale for completion of the Consumer and Competition Bill. [33517/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 207. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of convicted persons imprisoned for six months, for five months, for four months, for three months, for two months and for one month in 2012; if he will further provide a breakdown of the categories of crime these persons were imprisoned for and a gender breakdown of same. [33680/13]

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed I do not. I want to raise the issue of medical cards. In budget 2013, the Government signalled that a further €750 million would be cut from the health budget for the year. The Minister may recall that where precisely those cuts were to be made was about as clear as mud. We were informed that medical card entitlements would be targeted, but we were not given the specifics. ...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked specifically about cancer patients. All of us are aware of the physical and mental trauma a cancer diagnosis brings to an individual and his or her family. Whatever the Minister may say about discretion or automatic provision, no rational or fair person would be of any other view but that a person suffering from cancer should be automatically entitled to medical card coverage. This...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister trots out figures and gives the impression that the Government is one of largesse and generosity. He tells us repeatedly that it is a government that wants to provide full health care for all. Yet in this specific instance and in these specific cases, it demonstrates a mean-spiritedness with regard to people who are very ill. Anybody who suffers from cancer and is asked to...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is happening against a backdrop of many people falling out of the private health care system, for reasons with which we are all too familiar. The Minister has not given me an answer in explanation for this mean-spirited and despicable decision because, really, he cannot. Is that not the truth?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister cannot stand over stripping medical card cover from cancer patients, or can he? Is the Government now-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----so depraved and at such a level that it will even stand over that?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask about that.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister indicate whether it is now confirmed that the House will adjourn at midnight? There was an issue yesterday in respect of the staff of the Oireachtas. I do not see any provision for a proper break in the running of business to allow people to have a reasonable rest in the course of their working day. A sos for an hour after the conclusion of No. 4 would accommodate this....

Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was going to make a reference to a beard but I will not. I want to raise two matters with the Minister, the first of which is the Bethany Home. Many Members are aware of what happened in Bethany Home, Rathgar, the suffering of women and children in the home and the existence of a mass grave in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross. The Taoiseach gave a commitment on 25 June that,...

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: In April this year the Minister published the Revised Estimates for the public service for 2013 and, as set out, they provide Members with a little more detail and information on each Department's budgetary allocation as noted in the expenditure report for 2013, published on budget day last December. It is worth remembering that Fine Gael and the Labour Party's programme for Government...

Topical Issue Debate: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When the Taoiseach got to his feet in the Dáil and issued an apology to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries, everybody gathered here and beyond understood that this was the beginning of the end game for those women. It is astonishing to hear the four religious orders - the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Charity and the Good Shepherd Sisters -...

Topical Issue Debate: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with the Minister on one point, which is people throughout the country expected much more from the religious congregations. I do not believe they should be given a bye ball on the basis they have co-operated with access to records and gave Dr. McAleese full co-operation. One would expect no less given the scenario and what was being investigated. Unlike the Minister I do not find...

Topical Issue Debate: Magdalen Laundries Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No one is suggesting that.