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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 634. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he signed off on the ESB annual accounts of 2010 on behalf of the Government as the majority shareholder, and each year thereafter since taking office. [47092/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 635. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in 2011, his attention was drawn to concerns raised by the ESB auditors, KPMG, prior to his signing of on the company's annual accounts on behalf of the Government as the majority shareholder with regards to the company's accounting treatment of the employees' defined benefit pension scheme. [47093/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 636. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in 2011, his attention was drawn to refusals by ESB management to provide the company's auditors, KPMG, with documentation, information and confirmation regarding the company's decision to change the accounting treatment of the employees' defined benefit pension scheme to a defined contribution pension scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 726. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47076/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 829. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47081/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 830. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he will bring the report of the interdepartmental group on the implementation of the recommendations of Mr. Justice Quirke before Government. [47089/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 852. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47070/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 976. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 27 March 2013, when she will supply the requested figures of missing unaccompanied asylum seekers' minors [46467/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1006. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of her Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47072/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47079/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47085/13]

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reject the Taoiseach's assertion that this is about cutting costs but not services. It is very clear from the letter from the four hospital CEOs that their experience is that it is not simply prudent, cost-cutting savings that are being made but that services are being undermined. This morning cancer patients and their families woke to the news that they are next in line to be hit by...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is time for the Minister, Deputy Reilly, to go. He should resign. These four hospitals - the Mater, St. James's, Tallaght and Crumlin children's hospital - provide vital services. Their CEOs say the Government's cuts and demands for fewer staff and shorter waiting lists are unsustainable and undeliverable and that this approach is damaging the foundations of the health system. When...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I should not be too surprised at the Taoiseach's expression of confidence in the Minister, because it is clear that he lives in some kind of warped bubble regarding these matters.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's backbenchers do not like hearing this, but they will hear it. The CEOs of these four hospitals have described the Government's proposed cuts of up to €1 billion as short-sighted and random. It is very clear from reports from Crumlin children's hospital that children with cancer are experiencing delays to chemotherapy. That is now on the public record. It is...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The letter clearly states that there is a crisis in the hospitals and that further cuts will lay low many of those services. The implication for those who rely on our health services is yet more anxiety and concern. The Taoiseach attempts to lecture me about legal responsibilities with regard to the preparation of the HSE service plan. That is a joke coming from the Taoiseach. Has he any...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the requirement of Deputy Kenny, as Taoiseach? Is it to stand by his man?

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Taoiseach who is the joker.

Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not have 30 years' service in this place but I can say from the recent years I have served here that I have always been struck by Tom's professionalism, courtesy and good humour. Let this be said also of all of the ushers who work in the Oireachtas. I join with others in thanking Tom for this and in congratulating him for such an outstanding record of public service. The idea of a...