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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29599/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29602/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 559. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if waste brokers who do not handle the waste themselves require a waste collection permit under waste management legislation or regulations to secure local authority waste disposal contracts. [29931/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 560. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if waste brokers who handle but do not transport waste require a waste collection permit under waste management legislation or regulations to secure local authority waste disposal contracts. [29932/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 574. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29600/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29596/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 647. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of her special advisers; if she will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29607/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 752. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29605/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 1 July 2014, the administrative basis upon which health care will be made available under the forthcoming redress for women who were in certain institutions Bill 2014, for qualifying women living abroad. [29845/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 828. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29611/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (8 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 874. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above the special adviser pay cap from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the amount of the increase sought. [29598/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the quantum of adjustment in public expenditure required in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29846/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to the forthcoming budget which is only three months away. We are coming to the end of this Dáil session and I would like the Minister to set out the extent of cuts he envisages in the forthcoming budget. Will he set out where the Department is at in budgetary planning?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Minister is aware of the impact the recent series of austerity budgets has had on service levels and on people's capacity to spend, plan and budget for their own households and lives. It seems from the soundings from the new Tánaiste and leader of the Labour Party, whom I congratulate on her new positions, that she is also aware of this. While I appreciate that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is certainly not a fortune teller, but he is the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. His Government colleagues, including the Minister for Finance, might believe him when he says "objectively, we have done a good job" of protecting the most vulnerable people in society, but that is not the experience on the ground. The budgets that have been delivered by this Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Minister referring to someone like the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan?

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is one of the issues we debated when the Minister was conceiving this scheme. No part of the Minister's answer resolves the issue that a pregnant worker would have, for example, if she falls ill, takes her sick leave and clocks up more or and more of the leave for which she is eligible, with consequences further down the line. It is a genuine concern. I hope the Minister will take...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the long-overdue Government responses to and the Dáil debates on the Constitutional Convention reports. We are awaiting the Government's official response to the report on Dáil electoral reform. That was due last December. The deadline for the Government's response to the convention's fifth report, on the right to vote of citizens resident...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he anticipates any further use of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation; and the purpose or purposes for which he would be prepared to consider its future use. [29615/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the interests of open government, he is prepared to legislate to require every public body that is fully funded by the Exchequer, and other bodies that receive substantial public funding, to disclose pay and pension arrangements for staff; and if he will make public the details of the public service pension arrangements on...