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- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government contains a commitment to update the national eye care plan. The Taoiseach made some reference to it earlier this morning. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates - Public vs. Private: The Battle for Care", highlighted very serious issues and discrepancies regarding the time worked in public hospitals by a small number of consultants. I listened to 90 year old...
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have here, courtesy of the Labour Party, which very generously has given me this text, the Official Report of-----
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----the Dáil and it reflects the fact that the Taoiseach is either misleading the Dáil again or he is being more than disingenuous. He has defined on the floor of the House "no prior knowledge" very specifically as after the fact of the cross-examination. He is now saying the Tánaiste knew nothing about this until the commission was under way. That was not the Taoiseach's...
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach said it twice - last Tuesday and last Wednesday. He needs to clarify it now. I do not think he should dig an even deeper hole or deepen this controversy by continuing to mislead the Dáil. The Tánaiste knew the nature of the legal strategy. Furthermore, she knew that information prior to the cross-examination of Maurice McCabe and she chose not to do anything about...
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The fact that the Taoiseach says now that he has ordered a trawl of documentation and that he is revisiting the Toland report in respect of the dysfunctionality of the Department of Justice and Equality simply underscores yet again the seriousness of this matter and the fact that it is not an isolated incident. There are now serious questions over the judgment, competence and credibility of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (21 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 98. To ask the Taoiseach the gender balance on each of the State boards under his remit, in tabular form. [48887/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda station in central Dublin in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49358/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí that have been assigned to date in 2017 to the north inner city of Dublin. [49360/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (21 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles assigned to each Garda station in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49359/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (21 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Fitzgibbon Street Garda station will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49361/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the new Garda special crime task force has been established as recommended by the Mulvey report recommendations for the north-east inner city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49362/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We should note the correspondence. I share Deputy Cullinane's concerns, not alone that this might prove to be a pretext to limit the questions we ask but, more to the point, it might be the single transferable answer to questions that are provided by the witness today. While noting the fact of the investigation and this correspondence, it would not be acceptable for a witness to come before...
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the witnesses. I congratulate Ms Cynthia Deane for successfully completing her paperwork on time. I do not know if she is in the habit of peer-to-peer learning but perhaps she has some nuggets of wisdom that she might share with her colleagues. I commend her for that and for her presentation today. What did Ms Deane do prior to holding this post? Was she in Carlow or Kilkenny...
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Where was Ms Hanney?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will Ms Deane describe to us the process by which she was appointed to her current position?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Ms Deane. Could I ask the Department what happened to the other four? How did it go from having 20 people to 16?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did they indicate to the Department that they would prefer a role other than a position of chief executive or did the Department apply some criteria to decide the matter? In other words, did the four people who were not successfully appointed to the new positions volunteer to be redeployed or did Mr. Loftus make that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Loftus for his reply which, while interesting, does not answer my question. I want to know how the four people were identified as not for appointment to the new positions.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I can imagine, and correctly so, that there would have been an agreement with the unions on redeployment. I understand that. What I want to know is whether four people stated a preference for a job other than a chief executive position or did Mr. Loftus have to apply criteria to reduce the 20 to 16?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Seniority was one factor. What were the other factors?