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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (30 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the sale of St. Senan's Hospital, Enniscorthy, if the sale of the hospital has not been delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25750/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Irrespective of what we say, who writes to who in whatever tones and what appeal is made to people's better nature and judgment, there are those among us who will leak anyhow. Most of the material that arrives to us, we publish in any event. Is that so?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me put my idea in a different way, then. There is that correspondence which will be published and self-evidently is cleared for publication. There is other material we will decide not to publish for whatever reason. I am not even convinced it will work but I think the following is our best shot. Can we decide that the clerk and our officials will circulate electronically all of those...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are not publishing that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----we capture that point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree with that absolutely. On one level it is the case that the HSE and the Department do not have direct responsibility for these former employees. Nonetheless, it was the failure of governance, for which they had a responsibility, which led to the whole debacle. It is unthinkable that the workers would be left out of pocket and stranded. I accept the Chairman's point about the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We can couch it in terms such as "in the event of this particular outcome"-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to ensure that there are no surprises-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We can recommend it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the back of this piece of correspondence, and in anticipation of our discussion on our programme of work, I would like to make the following point. The terms of reference for this new investigation into the University of Limerick, UL, have been set out. I think that we, as a committee, should have the Department come before us to put it through its paces with regard to the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last February, Mr. Kieran Mulvey reported to the Government on the north east inner city and bringing about what was termed in the report's title as "a brighter future". That was launched and agreed. Since that time, there has been a really disappointing level of inactivity in terms of implementing those recommendations and establishing viable and meaningful local structures to bring the...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's recipe for incremental and gradual progress meant that the children of Gaelscoil Bharra in Cabra West had to wait for 20 long years to be educated in a proper school building.

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is the incremental, step-by-step, steady, easy as you go, "do not get notions that one should be educated in a proper building" progress delivered to the people by Fine Gael and, in fairness, advocated by its sidekicks in Fianna Fáil. Some 5,720 children in crisis have had no social worker allocated to them; while 91,000 households are on waiting lists. I could recite the...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Should the new leader and the person who wishes to be Taoiseach call a general election?

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, announced his resignation as leader of Fine Gael. I take this opportunity to wish Deputy Kenny, his wife Fionnuala and their family the very best for the future. No doubt the Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, and his colleagues will extoll the virtues of Deputy Kenny as leader of Fine Gael, and that is of course their prerogative, but the truth is...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: During last year's general election campaign, Deputy Kenny told the Irish people that they had to make a direct choice between stability and chaos. He was right, and Fine Gael has delivered chaos in spades. The reality is that he came to office in a time of crisis, and he leaves office at a time of crisis. There is a paralysis in the Irish body politic. It is a paralysis by design,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (17 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who applied to the Dublin central rents unit who have been refused rent supplement and instructed to apply for the housing assistance scheme since 1 January 2017. [23517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fire Safety (16 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the fire and evacuation procedures and policies in place in Dublin Castle, the State apartments, conference centre and castle hall; the length of time they have been in place; the procedures and policies in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22824/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fire Safety (16 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of fire drills carried out for each year from 2000 to 2016 and to date in 2017 in Dublin Castle, the State apartments, the conference centre and castle hall in tabular form; the nature of the fire drills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22825/17]