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Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's colleagues in Government-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's colleagues-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----have supported a strategy of big pay-offs for Anglo Irish Bank bankers, NAMA developers and ministerial advisors.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister, Deputy Howlin has been clear on these matters but he cannot tell us definitively as a Minister and member of the Labour Party if he will resist even more savage austerity and if he will stand up for those who are suffering or if he will continue to be the cheerleader for Fine Gael policy.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome Deputy Howlin's recently found interest in the North of Ireland and its budgetary circumstances. If he examined what has happened just up the road, he would discover that despite a cut to the block grant, the Executive has worked to ring-fence services and to create new income streams for the most socially disadvantaged. The Minister says he will not pretend. The great pretence is...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I put it to the Minister again.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government, with the Labour Party in it, pursue even greater austerity? Are we looking at €4 billion in cuts and tax rises?

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the commitment to protect the social welfare budget still intact or has the Labour Party capitulated to its partners in Government and the EU-IMF troika, whose presence in our country all of us lament?

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will it be done on the back of social welfare recipients and the low paid?

Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Legal Services Bill was published yesterday. It is not on the draft schedule for next week. Can the Minister tell the House when it will come before the Dáil? Can he also say something about the relationship between this Bill and judicial appointments? It is depressing to see that the old boys' network is still alive and well, with people with political affiliations being appointed...

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Táim lán sásta deis a bheith agam caint san díospóireacht seo. There is something incredibly and predictably depressing in the Government's position as articulated by the Minister of State, Deputy John Perry, this evening and by the Minister of State, Deputy Willie Penrose, last night. They tell us they want value for money - that is code for more cutbacks. They tell us they want to...

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The community and voluntary sector step in and intervene where the Government has absented itself. The sole reason this sector is needed in the first instance is because the Government and the State has failed to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Inner city communities like the one I represent are facing a drugs crisis not seen since the 1980s. I hope the Deputies in this House...

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The challenge for Government, in addition to educating itself on the system of governance 100 miles up the road, is to put its money where its mouth is as regards this sector. The Minister of State said that he understands the sector and that he applauds it. He used the rhetoric but rhetoric will not cut it.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The sector and the citizens will not be satisfied with crocodile tears or tea and sympathy. We want our funding. We want our services. We want the Minister to take his hands and his austerity off the necks of the people-----

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----of working class communities the length and breadth of this State.

Written Answers — Export Markets: Export Markets (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the changes he has made in the seven months since he came to office to reorientate our foreign enterprise development services towards Brazil, Russia, India and China; and the changes that he will make in this regard in the next 12 months. [28886/11]

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reductions in the cost of utility services that have been achieved in the seven months since he took office; and the reductions that will be achieved in the next 12 months. [28885/11]

Written Answers — Council of Europe Conventions: Council of Europe Conventions (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will sign up to the Council of Europe Convention on violence against women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28932/11]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe in which he will introduce consolidated and reformed domestic violence legislation to address all aspects of domestic violence, threatened violence and intimidation, in a way that provides protection to victims; and if he will include a review of all court procedures. [28933/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health his views that a third review of domestic violence services by the Health Service Executive is an appropriate response by him to the increasing numbers of domestic violence victims as detailed in Safe Ireland's annual figures recently released. [28934/11]