Results 741-760 of 21,404 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Service Appointments (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that.
- Public Service Appointments (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not suggest.
- Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Trident report said, as the Minister acknowledged, that members would pay more to the scheme in contributions than they would receive from its benefits. In fact, the report goes on to say that teachers would be better off to opt out of the pension scheme. The Minister said he has spoken with the teachers' unions. Has he identified for them the flaw in the Trident report and, if so,...
- Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The teachers and everyone else know full well that the pension levy is a tax and is not a contribution to pension.
- Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: If Trident is wrong on that basis and if, as the Minister has said, the pension levy is not set in stone can I assume the Minister gave the teachers unions some reassurance or a timeframe as to when the pension levy might end?
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will enforce sections 6 and 7 of the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1963 and rescind special severance gratuity payments and added years awarded to existing senior civil servants such as Secretaries General and county managers on their retirement. [28630/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures contained within the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill that will end the culture of excessively high pension pay outs to senior civil servants. [28631/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will enforce sections 6 and 7 of the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1963 by rescinding special severance gratuity payments and added years awarded to existing senior civil servants such as Secretaries General and county managers on their retirement. [28653/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the finding in the Trident report commissioned by the teacher unions on the proposed changes to public service pensions which show that several categories of teachers will pay more into the scheme than they will receive. [28741/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action he proposes to take in view of the findings in the Trident report which show that several categories of teachers will pay more into the scheme than they will receive. [28742/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the administrative costs of the proposed single pension scheme for all public servants have been costed by him; and the savings if any that will be realised. [28743/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 27 September 2011, the saving if all existing public service pension payments were capped at â¬35,000 applying the comparable trend as applied to his calculation for capping all existing civil service pensions payments at â¬35,930. [28811/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the State if all existing and future public and civil service pension payments were capped at â¬35,000 per year. [28812/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings to be State if career averaging were applied to all existing civil and public service pensions. [28813/11]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the name, position and a breakdown of the retirement packages for all senior civil servants eligible to retire before February. [28815/11]
- Written Answers — Domestic Violence Services: Domestic Violence Services (11 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 460: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health Service Executive to complete its review of domestic violence services; and if it intends to end State funding to Safe Ireland and the Rape Crisis Network. [28260/11]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach about media reports carried this morning which suggest the Government is planning a â¬1 billion cut in social welfare budget.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: I remind the Taoiseach that he made commitments not to introduce welfare cuts and I ask him to reiterate that commitment to the House. I also ask the Taoiseach to address the issue of proposed cuts to rent supplement, which keeps a roof over 95,000 households. The Taoiseach knows as well as I do that the local authority housing stock is woefully inadequate and that any cut to rent supplement...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: In the absence of the published comprehensive spending review and of the Taoiseach giving any affirmation to the House that he will not cut welfare, we are left with conjecture. I judge from the tone of his remarks that he is equivocating. He is not prepared to repeat his pre-election promise to protect welfare payments.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: No one wishes to see any social welfare payment scammed, as the Taoiseach puts it. Equally, no one in this House, and certainly no Member of the Government parties, should cast aspersions on welfare recipients by constantly using the term "fraud" when the correct term is "irregular payments", whether the Taoiseach is comfortable with that or not. Will the comprehensive spending review take...