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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the purposes of the record, I want it noted that the Commissioner insinuated that there are myriad ways in which such a disclosure can be made. I thought that sounded rather odd but let the record reflect what was said. With the benefit of having some sight of this mess, this absolute chaotic, shambolic mess that has undoubtedly brought reputational damage to An Garda Síochána...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----ought a section 41 disclosure have been made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not want to hear that; I want the witness to answer my question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Waters for his answer. I just want to say that I am alarmed that this is the manner of his work. I am alarmed that this is the mentality and the approach within the Department of Justice and Equality. We are looking at a big, shambolic mess. The interim report that Mr. Waters now accepts is not about unorthodox practices. It states, categorically and clearly, that there were...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not asking Mr. Waters to do that. I am asking him to put himself in the place of the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality of this State. If we, as a committee, can conclude nothing else, it is surely - to state the blindingly obvious - that the Department ought to have been informed and that the Garda Síochána Act 2005 ought to have been complied with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The information was known in 2008 and the Department was not told.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Waters okay with that? Should he be in that chair? Is he okay with that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a report to testify to that. The only person who talks openly about this is Mr. Barry McGee, who wrote the report in 2008. Nobody else knew anything. It is astonishing.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 329. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28723/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 330. To ask the Minister for Finance if adjustments companies such as a company (details supplied) are required to facilitate the special needs of the disabled; the State measures which exist to discourage excessively aggressive claim management by loss adjusters and insurers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 388. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if payments under the 1984 Civil Service spouses' and children's superannuation scheme are compulsory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27871/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 389. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are exemptions under the 1984 Civil Service spouses' and children's superannuation scheme depending on marital status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27872/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 390. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are exemptions under the 1984 Civil Service spouses' and children's superannuation scheme depending on parental status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27873/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26530/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1119. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided a date for surgery in Cappagh hospital. [26951/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1184. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided a date for an appointment at the trauma and orthopaedics clinic in Cappagh hospital. [27206/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1318. To ask the Minister for Health if autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation treatment for multiple sclerosis will be made available here; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27940/17]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Good point.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Now is the time to plan for that new Ireland. The Taoiseach has invoked the memory of Michael Collins more than once in recent times. The Taoiseach will recall Michael Collins’s thinking, which was not uncontroversial at the time, about the freedom to achieve freedom. The Government now has the opportunity to chart a course-----

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to achieve that freedom. I hope it grasps that opportunity. I hope that the Taoiseach, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, and the Government are familiar with the Good Friday Agreement and the fact the Government is currently in default of that agreement, among others, which dubious honour it shares with the Tories in Great Britain. The institutions in the...