Results 1,621-1,640 of 21,404 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Stadium Projects: Stadium Projects (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if he gave incorrect advice to Campus Stadium Ireland Development in relation to the issue of VAT on the lease of the National Aquatic Centre. [10512/12]
- Written Answers — Stadium Projects: Stadium Projects (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the Valuation Office received the complete and correct lease of the National Aquatic Centre when it provided its valuation for VAT purposes in 2002. [10513/12]
- Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the value of the land assets taken from financial institutions by the National Assets Management Agency is at least equal to the price paid by NAMA for these assets. [10500/12]
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the normal Government procurement rules have been followed by the National Assets Management Agency in its procurement of professional services and advice. [10501/12]
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the moneys paid by the National Assets Management Agency to its professional advisers, companies and individuals; if so, if he will provide the annual moneys paid to such professional advisors in tabular form, data to be provided from the date NAMA was set up to the current date and the total annual amount paid...
- Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has, or intends to seek redress from the engineers or architects who certified the Priory Hall apartments on behalf the banks owned by the Minister and who subsequently gave mortgages to the residents. [10376/12]
- Written Answers — Stadium Projects: Stadium Projects (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2004 and 2005 the Valuation Office report has been withheld from Dublin Waterworld Limited on the instructions of a company (details supplied). [10509/12]
- Written Answers — Stadium Projects: Stadium Projects (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Campus Stadium Ireland Development received written instructions from a company (details supplied) that Dublin Waterworld Limited and its advisor was not to be provided with the VAT valuation of the National Aquatic Centre; and if he considers this appropriate. [10507/12]
- Written Answers — Stadium Projects: Stadium Projects (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the advice Campus Stadium Ireland Development received from its tax advisers on the Valuation Office report in 2002. [10508/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (23 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the Department of Finance issued instructions that the VAT amount of â¬10,254,600 be included in the legal proceedings between Campus Stadium Ireland Development and Dublin Waterworld Limited. [10505/12]
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the final number of public service employees who will leave the service between 1 January 2012 and 29 February 2012; if he has received a report from each of the five transition teams on the way the impact of the end of February retirements will be managed; if he has submitted to Government a memorandum of the reports...
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The figure is 3% of the entirety of the public service. The Minister referred to the extent of the planning done to date and the advance notice given in respect of the incentivised retirement package.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is, actually. One would not ordinarily see this type of exodus from the service without a clear incentive being in place.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not had sight of the individual sectoral reports that the Minister stated were on each Department's website, but I have with me the Civil Service sectoral plan. The contingency plans are contained in an appendix to the document, which can be found on the Minister's departmental website. What is striking is the fact that the appendix is scant on detail. It repeatedly makes assertions...
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It will be news to virtually all the retiring public servants that the incentivised exit mechanism was not in fact an incentive but we will agree to differ on the semantics of it.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister stated that the objective is to downsize further. I ask him to explain what he means by that. I presume he is envisaging something that falls within the parameters of the Croke Park agreement. He might enlighten us in this regard. He also says the objective is to act more effectively and efficiently but his record to date has been purely about reducing headcount via an...
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full list of all payments and allowances paid to members of the Government; the changes, if any, he plans to make to these payments and allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11411/12]
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister had my full attention. I am sorry that he was cut short.
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that. I was introducing a note of levity, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I would like to focus on one or two specific matters. What, if anything, does the Minister propose to do about the laundry tax deduction allowance of â¬3,500 that is available to Ministers from outside Dublin who stay in hotels? Can the Minister comment on the dual abode allowance, which is offered to...
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does it exist?