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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sanctions in place for board members and audit committees of institutes of technology and universities that fail in their duty of care to whistleblowers; the date on which the attention of boards and-or the audit committee was drawn to whistleblowers in these colleges. [30315/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases board members and audit committee members are also CEOs of ETBs and are responsible for handling their own ETB whistleblowers and are failing to deal with these matters; if this has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30316/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been cases in which the HEA and-or his Department have taken action to date in 2017 against a whistleblower in such cases; and if his Department and the HEA are willing to intervene and remove members of a board for failure to act and protect a whistleblower. [30317/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HEA and his Department, by failing to have proper measures in place, are causing risk and reputational damage to colleges and persons; and if his attention has been further drawn to the costs associated with same. [30318/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or the HEA has an oversight role regarding persons who manage whistleblowers in institutes of technology and universities, in view of the fact that they may have also been board members of long standing in ETBs and have failed to manage whistleblowers there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30320/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his Department's 2015 review of corporate governance in all colleges. [30319/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if senior staff in a college (details supplied) have been proven to have been negligent in their duty of care in protecting a whistleblower or have been proven to be involved in penalising a member of staff of a university or institute of technology under section 12(1) of the Disclosure Act 2014; the sanction for these persons in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for delays in dealing with serious cases of whistleblowing within colleges; the further reason colleges are not proactive in such cases; if his attention has been drawn to the costs involved and the failure to look after the physical and mental health of persons; his plans to help and reward persons who have stood up to wrongdoing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (28 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if whistleblowers who are on sick or stress related leave are paid in full; if not, the reason for same; if educational organisations contact whistleblowers on leave to ascertain their state of health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30323/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will try to say this as moderately as I can in order to allay the fears of some. Will the Taoiseach explain to me the basis of his statement at last week's Council meeting to the effect that the British might change their mind on leaving the customs union. Was that just him thinking out loud or was it based on something he had picked up from the British or heard from one of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is the modus operandiof the cosy relationship across the floor. It is quite all right.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have resigned myself to it. Is it true that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, threatened to pull the plug on the Taoiseach's Administration on the basis of the handling of the appointment to the Court of Appeal? Is it true that he threatened to pull the plug unless the Taoiseach guaranteed that the judicial appointments legislation would go through the Houses...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Am I to take it from that response that whereas the threat to bring down the Government was not made directly to the Taoiseach, it was, in fact, made to another Minister?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach ascertained or established with his colleagues if there was a threat to bring the Government down? That is what I am asking.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a rather standout piece of gossip.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That name has been withdrawn.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The concern specifically around the United States is not just the domestic policies pursued by this Administration but the global reach of the United States, which is unrivalled by the Cubans and the Venezuelans. The Taoiseach would accept that. It is very difficult to know where to start with the Trump Administration. On the one hand, people accept the reality that this man was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have absolutely no interest in the Taoiseach's analysis of the Bolsheviks, the Russian Revolution, the Wizard of Oz, his film choices or anything else. I asked a question about the undocumented Irish and I got precisely no answer.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was 1998.