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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the Constitutional Convention?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the Constitutional Convention?
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: One of the Taoiseach's Ministers has prepared a memorandum of understanding to be signed by the Irish Insurance Federation. It falls short of a legislative remedy for those families that cannot get insurance for their homes, but I welcome the Taoiseach's sentiment expressed here today that perhaps when that legislation is introduced, the matter of some form of State guarantee or fund for...
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: At the outset, I will read some of the Minister's comments and sentiments that I share back to him. I also:see the introduction of such protections as a catalyst for a change which views openness and transparency as an asset rather than a liability and as a change towards a culture that values the contribution of employees and citizens and recognises those contributions as positive,...
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: In doing that, the Minister, with his ministerial colleagues, has done a grave disservice to the work we do as Members of the Oireachtas and as members of that committee.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: A grave disservice was equally done to the notion of whistleblowers, protected disclosures and protecting-----
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am speaking. I have the floor.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No. I have the floor. The Minister will have his opportunity to respond.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have the floor.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The comments, as the Minister is very well aware, relate to the appearance of the whistleblower before the Committee of Public Accounts. Those comments, along with others of his colleagues, were a calculated and failed attempt to frustrate the work of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: A grave disservice has been done to the notion of whistleblowers, protected disclosures and the kind of protections that must exist for persons who step forward, whether they are members of the Garda Síochána, any other agency of the State or any private entity. It is a deep irony that the Minister is bringing forward this very welcome legislation this evening while last week he...
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----suggesting that the Committee of Public Accounts had acted improperly in a bid to prevent this particular whistleblower from presenting his case to us.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The other irony is that in the course of this controversy, the only names that have been bandied about, and with wild abandon, have been the names of the two Garda whistleblowers. They have had comments made on them during committee proceedings by, among others, the Garda Commissioner. My colleague Deputy Sean Fleming referred to some of those remarks. Yet we had to hear from the...
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was indeed shocking and scandalous.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me turn to the legislation.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not my wont. I am sorry if a statement of the facts offends the Minister's delicate sensibilities, but there you go. I have welcomed the introduction of this legislation and particularly commend the work of officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The European Commission anti-corruption report on resourcing and the regulatory impact assessment of the Bill...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Provision (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce legislation to provide enhanced medical services to eligible women similar to that available to holders of the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 [53978/13]
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The whistleblower legislation is now on Second Stage in the Dáil. It requires new regulations in terms of the confidential recipient and whistleblowing mechanism within An Garda Síochána. Could the Taoiseach confirm to the Dáil that those regulations will be laid before us and whether we will have an opportunity to consider and debate them? The Taoiseach might be aware...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the regulations be seen in the House?