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Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (26 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will reconsider his decision to end the employment of a person (details supplied) on the basis that his apprenticeship has concluded. [31657/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (2 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual saving to the State if all public sector pensions currently paid by him were capped at €35,000 per year. [31988/11]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (2 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 278: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total value of the dormant accounts fund as of the end of September 2011. [31974/11]

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, we saw the Tánaiste's Government hand over €700 million to unguaranteed bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: We see evidence today of tax revenues falling. Of particular note is the drop in VAT receipts, a further reflection of the decimation of the domestic economy and people's spending power due to austerity measures directed at middle and low income earners. Tomorrow we expect to see the Government's growth projections revised downwards yet again. We also found out recently that a €3.6...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the Department of Finance?

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The NTMA claimed it alerted the Department of Finance about this issue in August 2010.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The current Secretary General of that Department presided over this blunder, yet the Government proposes to appoint this man to a plum job at the European Court of Auditors. On what basis can the Tánaiste possibly defend the appointment of this individual to anything, let alone the European Court of Auditors, given this blunder? Does he still have confidence in the appointment of this man...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have the utmost respect for the Civil Service and public servants generally. However, there must be accountability when mistakes are made - when an accountancy error to the tune of 2.3% of GDP is made. I make no apology for calling to account very senior civil servants on very big pay packages with very generous pension entitlements to give an account through the Tánaiste and the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not allegations.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I refer to the climate change Bill. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, has decided it is not a matter of priority. I assume he is aware of the severe episodes of flooding in Dublin and elsewhere across the State. I ask the Tánaiste to outline the position in respect of that Bill and his view on it. The temporary agency workers Bill will...

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the temporary agency workers Bill?

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will there be no derogation?

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vacant youth officer posts in vocational education committees; and when she expects these to be filled. [32506/11]

Written Answers — Child and Family Supports: Child and Family Supports (3 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mechanisms she will use to enhance the role of early intervention in child poverty and support programmes for vulnerable children in the context of the new child and family support services agency. [32507/11]

Community Employment Schemes (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of the revised points for eligibility for ring-fenced projects agreed by FÁS. In particular, I wish to zero in on one such project, the community after schools project known as CASPr. The project has been operating in the north-east inner city of Dublin since 1995 and I need not tell Members about the level of social and educational disadvantage suffered by that...

Community Employment Schemes (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate this is the response the Minister of State received but our information flatly contradicts what has been said. At no stage was CASPr involved in a consultation procedure. I believe Citywide, a very fine group, is being cited because it was perhaps the only group engaged on this matter. If it is the case that the nine points have not been changed, how is it that a scheme which...

Private Members' Business - Promissory Notes: Motion (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: A few short months ago, the Minister, Deputy Noonan, on behalf of the Government promised he would seek to share losses with investors holding unguaranteed, unsecured bonds in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society. I am unsure whether it was the Minister himself or his colleague, Deputy Howlin, who went so far as to describe such bondholders as legitimate targets for haircuts.

Private Members' Business - Promissory Notes: Motion (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Members were told that burden sharing with bondholders would be sought by agreement and through clear, determined and competent negotiation. A few short months later, the Government's record on negotiation has been found wanting. Despite the pre-election hyperbole of Fine Gael and the Labour Party, they have also been found out because the current Administration's failure to renegotiate...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on progress in the development of the new cystic fibrosis unit at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin and of other services for persons with this condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32967/11]