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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Rehab publish accounts for the Rehab Foundation company?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the witness give the reason for that?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: They might. It would demonstrate where the money in was coming from and where the money out-----

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, but it would itemise the fund-raising efforts.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is there a reason it could not be itemised?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: People who have dedicated their time and energy to fund-raising efforts on behalf of Rehab would expect that the fruits of their effort and the moneys gained would be set out in an absolutely clear and transparent manner, item by item. I do not think that is too big an ask of the organisation. Mr. Kerr or Mr. Governey said that they wished to get Rehab back to where it was.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: To be helpful, I suggest that Mr. Kerr should not wish to get Rehab back to where it was. The purpose of the exercise is to move Rehab to a very different place, if I understood Mr. Kerr's opening statement correctly.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the information on Complete Eco Solutions and the information I sought earlier in terms of the moneys into the Rehab Group and the ratio of taxpayers' money, charitable donations and commercially generated income be set out very clearly for the committee? Would Mr. Kerr now make a public appeal to both former CEOs, Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery, to make themselves available to attend...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: So Mr. Kerr is asking them to do so.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Kerr is asking them to do so.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will take that as Mr. Kerr asking them-----

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to appear before this committee.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will not need ten minutes because I am time-sharing with Deputy Mathews. I found his contribution remarkably energetic and enlightening.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I could hear his frustration.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I commend my colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, on bringing the Bill before the House. Ordinarily, when loopholes in law are closed off it is deemed to be a good thing because the presumption is that a loophole in law is a negative and needs to be remedied or addressed. However, last July when the Government signed into law the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act, that was far from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has raised the issue of a review of the evidence of State responsibility in the case of the Bethany Home with the Department of Justice; if so, the date on which he raised same; the nature of his communication with the Department of Justice; the response he received; if not the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full breakdown of all costs relating to the transfer to People Point of administrative responsibility for personnel functions in the Civil Service; the numbers employed in People Point and the comparative numbers employed in each Department prior to the move to People Point; the residual numbers remaining in each...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 1 April 2014, if there are facilities for Irish citizens who are living permanently or temporarily in another EU member state to acquire a personal public service, PPS, number other than that outlined in her previous answer. [17480/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Land Acquisition (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 404. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is provision in law that would allow a person to be excluded from purchasing land public or private on the open market on the grounds that they do not reside in the county in which the land is being sold. [17484/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the request that he undertake a review of the evidence with respect to State responsibility in the matter of Bethany Home, with a view to establishing redress analogous or comparable to that for the victims of institutional residential abuse or that concerning the Magdalen laundries, has been made to his Department; if so, the date on which...