Results 8,101-8,120 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----has gone to every length to have these matters explored and investigated. He now fears this will never happen. My question is this. Given the serious nature of these allegations against named persons and, perhaps, the more serious allegation that there was a connivance to avoid or even to cover up the exposure of these matters, and given that the Committee of Public Accounts is not...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: ----- whistleblower failed to investigate these matters fully and thoroughly?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Two years later.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: He also asked to have his investigation completed.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We think there should be Topical Issues tomorrow. It is a normal sitting day and we do not see any good reason to deny Deputies the opportunity to raise urgent matters of the day as normal.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: When can we expect to see the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and other institutions?
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Could the Taoiseach tell us when the terms of reference might come before the Dáil, whether we will have the opportunity to amend those terms of reference and whether they will be seen by survivors and advocacy groups? The Taoiseach is probably aware that there is significant concern among the survivors of the Westbank orphanage and some of the other Protestant institutions that they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The legal advice to us has been consistent and clear that the Committee of Public Accounts can deal with some of the matters contained in the dossier but only in fairly narrow confines. That was reiterated very clearly and I checked and rechecked that with the legal adviser. It was made very clear that any matters pertaining to specific individuals or allegations of political obstruction...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly, Chairman. For the record, I would say that prior to the committee receiving any legal steer on these matters, I, as an individual, had sought advice from the parliamentary legal adviser. In fact, I understand I was the first person to bring the dossier to the attention of that individual. At every step anything that I have done or said has been guided by the legal advice...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the evidence of that, Chairman?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is a nonsense.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would raise one issue concerning that correspondence from Transparency International. Mr. Devitt seems to be under the misunderstanding that the PAC met with the whistleblower in private. We need to write to him to clarify that has not happened. We are all very concerned about the well-being and protection of whistleblowers. Somebody gave the whistleblower's name or even the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Please bear with me as my voice is a bit gravelly and I shall try not to cough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: First, Ms Feehily has repeatedly underscored the credibility of the former authorised officer. Clearly she regarded him and still regard him as diligent, capable and reliable. Is that a fair summation of her professional view of this individual?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not invite Ms Feehily to make a commentary based on personality. I simply asked her to establish the professional bona fides of this individual who, as she has said, was helpful in the investigations carried out. I am surprised at her surprise, in respect of this dossier. As the Cathaoirleach has pointed out, Revenue should have it in its possession because that ask was made of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No doubt Ms Feehily will when the dossier is delivered to Revenue. Can Ms Feehily give us some sense of what will happen next when the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation finally - I hope expeditiously and perhaps on the back of this meeting - sends Revenue the dossier? Who will get it? What will it trigger within Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who will analyse it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Feehily would have been aware of media commentary over the past month or so since the dossier came into the possession of members of this committee. Therefore, she would have been aware of concerns, that it referred to matters pertaining to Ansbacher and that it pertained to an investigation of those matters. Did it not occur to her or anyone else in Revenue to make contact with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: If nothing else, today's meeting establishes that Revenue ought to have the dossier.