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Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Presumably when the transfer of staff happens and that work is completed, this committee can have access not to names of individuals coming across, but full information in respect of who is transferred across and what salary bands they are in.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They will be working under the auspices of NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes but they will be part of the NAMA operation. That is why I am putting the question to Mr. McDonagh.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I understand that but I am asking if they will be part of the NAMA operation.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will have access to that information on how many and at what levels.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Since the special liquidator is still doing his work, Mr. McDonagh has no sense of the loans that may transfer to NAMA. I am asking this for a simple reason. Mr. McDonagh has referred several times to clearing the decks by 2020 and the strategic plans to make that happen. Does he have any reservations or worries about that? I assume he has built in the variables of the IBRC and whatever...

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: About €2 billion, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. McDonagh take my point? I have heard what he said about planning it out.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: For 2020.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hold on, so that we are clear. It is fine for Mr. McDonagh to make that statement about the current loan book. However, the world wants to know when will he have finished his task. When will he have removed the entirety of the contingent liability on the State and its citizens? In a sense, while it is not misleading, it is not fully complete, to say "we therefore can confidently say that...

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will Mr. McDonagh be "under the bonnet", to use his term, towards the end of the year?

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have one last question about the docklands. I understand Mr. McDonagh's concern and the IDA's concern for commercial space. I represent the northside of that docklands area. Mr. McDonagh spoke about the new Central Bank, but I would have thought that Boland's Mills was the building of note on the southside. The previous Docklands Authority made an unholy mess of the development of that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sporting Organisations (1 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any discussions with the Department of Justice and Equality regarding the ability of sporting bodies to register as charitable bodies and the potential for this to enhance philanthropy towards sporting bodies. [40897/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Social Welfare Schemes (1 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to work with the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Finance to ensure that taxi drivers who become ill or are unable to work can better access social welfare supports. [40904/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 512. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Scheme to include the number of women who have applied to the Fund; the number of the applicants that have received a payment, medical card, pension payment and or additional supports as provided by the Magdalene Commission Report; and can if he will confirm that the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the disappearance of Sombath Somphone, a prominent activist for sustainable people-centred and just economic and social development, in Laos; evidence that indicates the Laoiation security forces may have had a hand in his disapperance; and if he will raise the issue with the Laoiation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Missions Participation (2 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of his recent four day political and trade mission to China; the discussions he had with Chinese officials; and what is expected to be achieved by the visit. [41167/13]

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning we heard first-hand stories of families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills. According to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the average cost of energy bills has increased by €500 per year. Working families and those out of work are simply unable to meet the spiralling costs of gas and electricity. When one hears their stories, they are heartbreaking. In...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When one looks at the figures and the achievement articulated by the Tánaiste with regard to retrofitting, I will be kind and call them modest, but the scale to which the scheme has been rolled out is certainly underwhelming. The Tánaiste must remember that his party promised a €40 million allocation specifically aimed at those suffering fuel poverty. I accept that high...