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Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for speech and language therapists in County Kildare and when these will be filled. [41215/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on the waiting list for occupational therapy in County Kildare. [41216/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for occupational therapists in County Kildare; and when these will be filled. [41217/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive occupational and speech and language therapy as recommended by the Health Service Executive as this person has been on the waiting list for over three and a half years; and the reason that his position on the waiting list has not changed during this time. [41218/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 967. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention concerning Dáil electoral reform, the subject of its fourth report; and when the Dáil will debate these recommendations. [41652/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 968. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention concerning extending the right to vote to citizens resident outside the State; and when the Dáil will debate these recommendations. [41653/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1016. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities are responsible for carrying out inspections on plumbing and heating in new homes; if not, if he will indicate who is responsible and how often these inspections are carried out; and the official body within the local authority is responsible. [41400/14]

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here we go again.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 16 October 2014 the Minister reiterated his and the Government's commitment to the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP. He lauded the scheme in terms of its ability to create opportunities, provide supports and ease the transition into meaningful employment for the harder to reach in the most disadvantaged areas in society. He announced that €46 million...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister read out all of the target groups involved, including children, lone parents, new communities, the unemployed, including the long-term unemployed, and every category he recited is box-ticked for the inner city of Dublin. I am very puzzled by this resource allocation model and how it functions because I cannot for the life of me figure out how such a model could be used to come...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister meet it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the implications of his proposal to delete section 2B of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 for the take-home pay of Civil Service and other public sector workers; and his plans for future negotiations with the public sector trade unions. [42275/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question is in a similar vein, although it refers specifically to the Minister's proposal to delete section 2B of the FEMPI Act of 2009. As we all know, this gave him unilateral power to cut the pay of public servants and increase their hours. What is the implication of the repeal of that section for the take-home pay of civil service and public sector workers, and what are his plans for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the deletion of the measure. At the time it was regarded correctly as a very negative development, not just in terms of the pay and conditions of public service workers but also a real intrusion on the voluntarist system of collective bargaining which had traditionally operated in this jurisdiction. It gave the Minister unilateral powers, which he said he did not use. Of course,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister will recall that at the time he did not invoke the provision as he did not have to do so. Public sector workers felt that, while they were nominally around the table for discussions, in fact, they were on the menu. They felt hugely disempowered. The Minister took an onerous power onto himself. It is welcome that the measure will be repealed and removed from the Statute Book...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was a case of accept it, or else.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Civil Service Reform (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his decisions with respect to the recommendations for Civil Service reform by the independent panel on strengthening Civil Service accountability and performance and by the Civil Service renewal task force. [42276/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Civil Service Reform (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to the publication, One Vision Civil Service: The Civil Service Renewal Plan, which is an interesting document. The process by which it has been produced has also been interesting. I am concerned that it does not pass us all by in the busyness of everything else. First, I wanted the Minister, Deputy Howlin, to set out his initial plans for the implementation of what is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Civil Service Reform (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree that this needs a considered discussion, if not by way of debate on the floor of the House, certainly at committee. We need to explore all of these matters. Why did the Minister decide to go for what he calls a "collective responsibility" model rather than, as has been proposed by Professor Rafter and others in the course of their work, a head of Civil Service? I understand Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Civil Service Reform (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask that that matter be kept under review. It might well emerge that the Minister is, in fact, correct in that assessment, and if it works, it is fair enough and all is well. However, Deputy Howlin hears my concern. The beauty of having a head of Civil Service is that accountability does not get lost in the collective. I ask that we do not entirely jettison that idea as, perhaps, one...