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Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn, now accept that Deputy Shatter had to resign?

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Had it been the Labour Party's call would it have waited for the former Minister, Deputy Shatter, to make up his own mind or would it finally have run out of rope and admitted that he should stand down?

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Minister, Deputy Quinn, thinks that referring to me as "motherly" to the cackles of this almost exclusively male audience goes down well with me or mothers who might be watching he is very wrong. I do not appreciate the tone of that remark.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know a sexist undertone when I hear it, Deputy Stagg.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have plenty to say, Deputy Stagg. If the Deputy would do me the courtesy of allowing me to say it, I would appreciate it.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: As a party, Labour was kept in the dark in respect of the Guerin report and the resignation of former Minister, Deputy Shatter, although the Tánaiste is not here to confirm this. Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn, know whether the Government has yet received the Cooke report? Lest I was a little clumsy in terms of the wording used in posing my initial question, I will rephrase it. Does...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Government received the Cooke report?

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister, Deputy Quinn, did not answer my core question. Did the former Minister, Deputy Shatter, have to step down?

Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have two matters. The Minister last took Leaders' Questions on 3 April and, on that occasion, I raised the issue of the Bethany Home with him. He will recall that the previous day, 2 April, a memorial stone had been unveiled to the more than 200 infants and children who died in that mother and baby home in Rathgar. At that point, the Minister committed to contacting the then Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I entirely agree.

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: When does the Taoiseach expects to have the Cooke report? Once having received it, when does he propose to publish it? Now that we have a new Minister for Justice and Equality I hope she and the Government will be more sympathetic and decent in respect of the case of the survivors of the Bethany Home. I have raised this issue many times on the floor of the Dáil. I hope today the...

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it not imminent?

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: So it is not imminent.

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that.

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has been utterly indecent to these survivors. It has been callous and heartless and the Taoiseach clearly intends to continue in this vein. It is a disgrace.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: There has been a cull of discretionary medical cards. This is a matter of recorded fact and the figures record that fact. The Minister states he must act within the parameters of the law and he cites the Health Act 1970. The Minister persists in the untruth that there has been no policy change when the facts shout out the contrary. Allow me to give the Minister two precise examples of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, lines 25 to 27, to delete all words from and including “whose” in line 25 down to and including “, or” in line 27.I welcome the fact we are finally on Committee Stage of this legislation. Certainly, recent events have underscored how important it is. I hope the amendments I present are taken in the spirit of getting the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. The amendment seeks to ensure that external advisers or professionals who may be contracted into a particular organisation - for example, auditors - would enjoy the full protection of the legislation. I have a concern that the legislation as currently worded would exclude not just auditors but accountants, financial advisers and professional advisers from those protections in the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister. I am more than happy with that so, at this stage, I will withdraw the amendment. I will have another look at my own wording and I will reintroduce my amendment on Report Stage, although I anticipate the Minister will have something of far superior quality to my simple amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(e) works on a voluntary basis, as a volunteer for no pay,”.The idea here is to ensure that the legislation captures also those persons who work in a voluntary capacity for organisations. The Minister will know, while it is perhaps not so much the case across private industry, that public bodies...