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- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 450: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, junior Minister and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of Ministers and junior Ministers and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10851/12]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 479: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the city and county managers who will have retired between March 2011 and the end of February 2012; the age of each city and council manager on retirement; and the number of added years awarded to each city and county manager as well as the amount of the special severance...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 480: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, Minister of State and Senior Civil Servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10854/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 560: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, junior Minister and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Junior Ministers and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10859/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 572: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, junior Minister and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and junior Ministers and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10852/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 593: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regard to senior civil servants. [10848/12]
- Written Answers — Domestic Adoptions: Domestic Adoptions (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 624: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her budget allocation for the staffing and administrative costs of the processing of domestic adoptions in 2011 and 2012 [10595/12]
- Written Answers — Domestic Adoptions: Domestic Adoptions (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 625: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of domestic adoption applications currently being processed by the Health Service Executive; and on average the length of time since the applicant families first submitted their applications [10596/12]
- Written Answers — Domestic Adoptions: Domestic Adoptions (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 626: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive is delaying the domestic adoption of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1. [10598/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 636: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the total amount each Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses, since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regard to senior civil servants. [10850/12]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 659: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has been unable to obtain an appointment for necessary eye surgery. [10725/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 680: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the total amount each Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10857/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 778: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, junior Minister and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and junior Ministers and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10863/12]
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Ann Phelan is in it.
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Last night's speech by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, begged the following question. What on earth has he done to the Labour Party? The Minister waxed lyrical about change and told us that all had changed, changed utterly. However, if he cared to stray back to the real world he would see nothing of significance has changed since the Government took office....
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: These companies have created tens of thousands of sustainable, quality jobs and they have delivered a first class world energy infrastructure. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are perfectly aware that to seek funding they could pursue matched capital investment funds from the European Investment Bank. They know they can make a useful investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to build...
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government argues that an asset is not strategic simply by virtue of the fact that the State holds it in ownership and it is correct to hold this view. However, the Government should also reflect on the fact that there is a reason the State is the shareholder in energy companies. This is because energy, by definition and in terms of security of supply to households and industry, the...
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the McCarthy review, a truly flawed piece of work in respect of semi-State assets. Once again the Minister recounted the original memorandum of understanding.
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those in government tell us that the logic of this inheritance is that it is left with no option. If the Government has no options, the question to be asked is why did the Government parties make concrete commitments in their election manifestos? I do not believe those who work within the commercial semi-State sector accept that there are no options. It is clear that the Government has...
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the fact.