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Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if vocational education committee chief executive officers receive a payment or allowance for sitting on and attending their own VEC board meetings. [11213/12]

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if vocational education committee chief executive officers' annual remuneration is paid with moneys provided by him; and if so, if he will provide in a tabular format the remuneration received by each of the VECs' chief executive officers including a breakdown of his or her annual salary, allowances and expenses. [12676/12]

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 14 February 2012, if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown between salary and allowance for each vocational education committee CEO. [12808/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, following a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 8 November 2011 when members were told the Department of Finance advised Campus Stadium Ireland Development that it would have to issue proceedings to recover VAT from Dublin Waterworld Limited, if he will confirm the instructions that were issued by his Department...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation following Ireland's application to become a member of the Human Rights Council and the Irish tripartite adoption of the United Nations' International Labour Organisation in June 2011, if it is his intention to ratify the ILO convention No. 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers 2012 and by doing so demonstrate his...

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 325: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who do not have land, planning permission or wind farms have applied and received grid application offers from EirGrid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12668/12]

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of persons who have received grid application offers from EirGrid are selling these offers on the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12669/12]

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the length of time on average it will take a new grid application to obtain a grid offer connection. [12670/12]

Written Answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 328: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that he is satisfied that Ireland will meet its renewable energy targets set for 2020; and the targets for each year up to 2020. [12671/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 336: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, following the response of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 1 February 2012 in which he states the remuneration of city and county managers is sanctioned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and was reduced in January 2010 in...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 340: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to amend the pension entitlements or remuneration of existing city and county managers. [11209/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to amend the pension entitlements or remuneration of new entrant city and county managers. [11210/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of city and county managers that will avail of the Croke Park grace period retirement of February 2012; and if he will supply the retirement age of each manager availing of the grace period. [11211/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 360: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount received by each city and county manager on retirement between January 2000 and February 2012 providing a break down of the final lump sum by annual pension, lump sum payment, and special severance gratuity payment. [12457/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Expenditure: Local Authority Expenditure (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of moneys spent by each local authority year on year from 2000 to 2011 on funding third level education for councillors in tabular form. [12509/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to provide funding to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for the 116000 missing children hotline; and if following ComReg's allocation of the 116000 number to the ISPCC she will confirm that the hotline number will be operational before the summer recess. [12578/12]

Care of the Elderly (7 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: This issue relates to the loss of 41 long-term care beds at St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park, which is located in my constituency. The closure of these beds follows on from a recommendation from the Health Information Quality Authority, HIQA. I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, can imagine the concern and stress to which this has given rise among the residents and...

Care of the Elderly (7 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Quality and safe care must be at the heart of service provision. The manner in which very many of the families discovered the news that beds were being lost and a second ward was to be closed was much less than satisfactory. It began as a sort of whisper and rumour and I should reiterate the level of anxiety that this caused. I appreciate entirely that budgetary considerations are real and...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the total years of service of each of the Secretaries General in that specific position of the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform since the 1 January 1995 to date; the pension arrangements made for each of the persons involved; the number of added years...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form a list of the Secretaries General who have retired since 2000 to the end of February 2012; the Department from which they retired; their age on retirement; the number of added years they received on retirement; and the amount of the special severance gratuity payment received on retirement,...