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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: From that I will take it that the Minister possibly was involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is germane in that we could talk until the cows come home about cultural change, openness and the need to change. It is accepted that there is a need for cultural change in the public service. Deputy Sean Fleming correctly pointed to the reflex reaction in the case of hospitals on the deaths of infants. There were very tragic cases in which the impulse was to protect the institutions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I entirely agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. May I stick to the issue of outsourcing? From what the Minister has said, and the fact that he is upskilling public service managers in the execution of outsourcing, I take it he sees this very much as a trend that will perhaps intensify within the public service. While human beings are equal and I entirely agree with the Minister that each worker should be equal to another, I think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: For example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister envisage that outsourcing will be limited to those short-term tasks or to mainstream service delivery?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: JobBridge
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I say to the Minister---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is this not supposed to be an exchange?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to point out the contradictory views on outsourcing. I know that the Minister knows that he could not but know that for many people working in the public sector and the unions who represent them, their biggest single concern is precisely the issue of outsourcing. The Minister will know that in the course of the Haddington Road saga, very often trade union members signed up to that...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (25 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for increasing the number of places at the gaelsoileanna in Clondalkin to meet the growing demand for these places from local families. [9129/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (25 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for improving the facilities at the gaelscoileanna in Clondalkin specifically by providing funding for schools to provide classrooms for their pupils in place of the existing prefabs. [9131/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (25 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of gaelscoil places available in the Dublin 22 area in 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and if he will provide an estimate of the current level of demand for places in these schools. [9130/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (25 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of prefabs being used by gaelscoileanna in Dublin 22. [9132/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (25 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff currently seconded to his Department from external companies; the company from which each person is seconded; and the role of each in his Department. [9584/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Remit (25 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 429. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a date has been set for him to meet with all interested parties to examine the possibility of rescuing Ireland's oldest surviving commercial ship, the Naomh Eanna; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Waterways Ireland's hired contractor has moved the ship into the breaking dock at Ringsend; and if he will make a...