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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: 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...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope that will mark the beginning of a process whereby outstanding issues can be resolved. As the Taoiseach knows, those issues include matters concerning Acht na Gaeilge. The Taoiseach should understand that Sinn Féin is not the biggest threat to democracy. Some Members of Sinn Féin smiled when he said that. For the Taoiseach’s purposes, Sinn Féin is more a threat...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: As for the housing portfolio, same old, same old. Members have listened to that rhetoric for as long as Governments of which the Taoiseach has been a member have been in office. In terms of the portfolio of employment and social protection, the Taoiseach has set out the objective of income equalisation. I say bravo to that. I note that the issue of welfare fraud has been dropped. Is...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Beidh mé ag roinnt mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Pearse Doherty.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Taoiseach, an Teachta Varadkar. I congratulate him on presenting himself to Uachtarán na hÉireann and returning to us as Taoiseach. We live in historic times. It is interesting to hear Deputy Micheál Martin, Uachtarán of Fianna Fáil, talk tough while, for the second time, ushering into office a Fine Gael Taoiseach. There has been...