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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (21 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the enhanced strategy the Office of Government Procurement intends to adopt to ensure the small and medium enterprise and micro-business sectors can access the multi-supplier framework agreement for the supply of stationery and office supplies. [49526/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (21 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will amend the Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 to include a provision for an interim relief order. [49527/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (21 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Bord Gáis element of the schedule of State asset disposals his Department is overseeing; the progress that has been made regarding the contractual arrangements for staff who will agree to transfer and for those who wish to remain as Bord Gáis employees. [49529/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Relations Issues (21 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent letter circulated by the Communications Workers’ Union, which states that the Labour Relations Committee recommendation in which his Department has been engaged in regarding the transfer of staff from the National Lottery Company to the new licence holder has not addressed all...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the need for questions to be grouped, but there are 38 in this particular grouping. As such, I hope we will have an opportunity to make several contributions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, Taoiseach. Two weeks ago, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, told the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform there would be no discussion at the forthcoming ECOFIN meeting of Ireland's exit from the bailout and that he had not yet finished his round of meetings on the margins of the Eurogroup. Less than 24 hours later, an emergency Cabinet meeting...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has damaged and hurt the most vulnerable in Irish society, sometimes at the bidding of its European masters. Will the Taoiseach set out what happened in respect of the decision regarding the bailout exit? What was the choreography and what conversations took place? Was one of those conversations with Chancellor Merkel in respect of the announcement he made in the Dáil...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The reason direct payments to children are so high in relative terms in this State is that the provision of basic public services is so appallingly bad. I mentioned earlier the issue of reclaiming our sovereignty, and the Taoiseach reflected that language back to me. I was simply reminding the Taoiseach that that was the headline claim he made when he announced the exit from the bailout...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Am I?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have not run down anyone.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not try to dodge that question. That is desperate.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They had to leave because they had no work.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the issue of symphysiotomy was to be raised at this morning's Cabinet meeting. Can the Taoiseach tell us when he will publish the second part of Professor Oonagh Walsh's report? I believe he has had it since the end of May. Is he in a position to name the judge who is to be appointed to engage in a mediation process with the victims? Can he give us details of her terms of...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also asked about the domestic violence legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it his intention to force pay cuts and other unilateral measures as contained within the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 on those teachers who continue to reject the Haddington Road Agreement. [49530/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abuse in Hospitals (26 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 576. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to allegations of abuse while a patient was in a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and the action he will take regarding same. [50191/13]

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The homelessness crisis in our capital city is getting worse. Walk the streets around here and one will see countless people, many of them very young, sleeping rough. Imagine what it must be like to be forced to sleep on the streets night after freezing night. This week, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive confirmed that rough sleeping in the city has increased by a shocking 200% in the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not really sure what to make of that answer because the Taoiseach is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. It seems that he is seeking to strike a sympathetic note without committing himself really to doing anything to change the situation. In case the Taoiseach is in any doubt-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Families are left in bed and breakfast accommodation or hotel rooms, some of them for years. They do not want to be there. They want proper accommodation. The thousands of people on housing lists want their own homes. They want that basic security. This is not just an issue of rough sleepers, although that is the sharpest end of the homeless crisis. I accept that parts of homelessness...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach just did.