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- Topical Issue Debate: Clerys Closure (17 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise the issue of the closure of Clerys and the unceremonious dumping of 130 direct employees and some 430 others who worked within the store. The Taoiseach has described the manner in which all this happened as "insensitive" but that is the wrong word. The manner in which all this happened is absolutely scandalous and the righteous anger of the workers and, more broadly, of the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Clerys Closure (17 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I acknowledge the interaction between the Department of Social Protection and the workers. I can only imagine how utterly depressing it has been notwithstanding the Tánaiste's efforts for these workers. As she said, many of them have very long service. In truth many of them feel they will not be returning to work and the damage is done. It seems that we cannot in any way recover the...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (17 Jun 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will remove an estate (details supplied) from consideration under the Homeless Action Plan, in view of the regeneration project planned between Dublin City Council and the Gaelic Athletic Association. [24031/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome Mr. O’Driscoll and his officials. For how long is he in position?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Prior to that, did he work for the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: For how long has he worked for the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. O’Driscoll have any involvement with the investigation unit at any stage? Did he work in it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: But only for that period.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Listening to Mr. O'Driscoll, one would wonder why on earth any change was made at all given the stellar performance of the SIU, as my colleague was saying. That contradicts not only the six or seven cases we heard, to which I will come back in a moment, but also the views of the current IFA president, Mr. Eddie Downey. He has stated in public repeatedly that the unit that Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I do not want Mr. O’Driscoll to do so because time is limited and he needs to answer me directly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Aidan accepts that there has been criticism of the unit.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: And I presume he regards it as unfounded.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. O'Driscoll accept that this level of criticism, irrespective of his view on it, was a factor in the Minister’s decision to stand down the SIU, as it was?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. O’Driscoll accept that the Minister accepted and understood that there was widespread criticism of the unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. O’Driscoll also accept that Ms Justice Reynolds, the judge in the case of County Cavan farmer Douglas Fannin, whom I name because his name is in the public domain, whom I believe would wish to be named and who won, was also very critical of the behaviour of the SIU? Does Mr. O’Driscoll recall that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I presume that in Mr. O’Driscoll’s interpretation of the IFA or individual cases, he does not dismiss the criticism of Ms Justice Reynolds.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: He accepts that Ms Justice Reynolds found the modus operandi of the unit to be deeply flawed and objectionable. She went so far as to say the integrity of the gentleman Mr. Douglas Fannin was intact and placed a question mark over that of the investigation unit.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: One of Mr. O’Driscoll’s officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: The record reflects that eight charges of interference and eight charges of criminal fraud were rejected by the courts.