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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that other members will want to have a look at it. It is comprehensive but straightforward. There is nothing hugely surprising in it but we have gone to the trouble of itemising it for the purpose of being specific rather than making a general request of the parties that they have the specifics we are looking for. I wanted to bring that to the Chairman's attention. I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The second thing relates to the Comptroller and Auditor General. One of the issues we raised last week is the area of intellectual property and its commercialisation and the processes, procedures, oversight, conflicts of interest, the money in terms of revenues generated and who got what proportionately. We proposed a special investigation and it is still my view that we need it. We need...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to speak on the same topic. I wish to puzzle out what I think is an extraordinary intervention by the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan. To me it is astonishing that a Minister of State would consider it appropriate to put out a statement and to rap the knuckles of the Committee of Public Accounts. I have the statement in front of me. The Minister of State said he felt he had to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was in the Waterford News & Starand on WLR FM.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The issue is whether it was in the local chronicle or splattered across The Irish Times, what I am querying is that a Minister of State would deem it appropriate to intervene in that way. I think it is completely inappropriate. I cannot imagine what he was thinking, bar maybe jockeying for position within his constituency, but that is for him to explain. We need to decide what we do about...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is, and we are all entitled to say what we wish, within the boundaries of the law and decency. The difficulty is that the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, is sited within his Department. In that regard, are we setting ourselves up for a position whereby, as we consider matters in the Department of Justice and Equality, for example, that it is okay for the Minister to come out with a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is the question now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Lastly, this is not to start rapping people on the knuckles. I am all for people saying. Had he personally-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----said it casually, we would take a different view. This comes from his Department and that is problematic for this committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Careful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not mention Kerry and what it does in the football.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is desperate.

Order of Business (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Mulvey report being brought to the Cabinet?

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also extend a very warm welcome to members of Mental Health Reform and all our visitors this evening in the Gallery for what is a very important debate at the beginning of this month of May, a month of mental health awareness. So many of us are wearing our green ribbons in solidarity and as a mark of a change that is happening in Irish society, albeit gradually, in which the stigma,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1029. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the inadequate ambulance service in north-west Connemara; and if so, his plans to address this issue. [20179/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1034. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that an ambulance service is in place to meet the needs of an area (details supplied) in County Galway; if he will request the national ambulance service to consider a group's suggestion that an ambulance be deployed in an empty Garda barracks. [20187/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (2 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant psychiatrists that are currently employed by the HSE; the number previously employed by the HSE, including their dates of termination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20629/17]