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Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I mean no disrespect but the Tánaiste sounds like a broken record. We are hearing the repetition of the same mantra from her and her colleague, the Minister for Education and Sills, who seems to find this matter amusing. Rather than setting out a road map, the Government parties have walked us into quite a cul-de-sac and not content with that, they have sabre rattled and, at a time of...

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: They need to hear from Government that there will be pay equalisation, not tomorrow, not next week, but a firm and solid commitment that is Government policy and that it will happen. The Tánaiste has so far refused to make that commitment and I invite her again in the midst of this dispute and its disruption to tell members of the ASTI and the teaching profession-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that there will be equalisation of pay for teachers. That is all I want her to do. That might get the Government out of the cul-de-sac and on to some sort of road map.

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask that.

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Pay equalisation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the services available for adults with dyslexia in Dublin 1, 3 and 7. [32375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the details of patients on waiting lists for the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital for outpatient appointments, inpatient procedures and other lists, who have been waiting for six months, 12 months, one year, two years and more than two years, broken down by speciality, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the details of patients on waiting lists for Cappagh hospital for outpatient appointments, inpatient procedures and other lists, who have been waiting for six months, 12 months, one year, two years and more than two years, broken down by speciality, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32358/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 119. To ask the Minister for Health the details of patients on waiting lists for the Mater hospital for outpatient appointments, inpatient procedures and other lists, who have been waiting for six months, 12 months, one year, two years and more than two years, broken down by speciality, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32359/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 120. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in hospitals to deal with persons who are homeless and, upon discharge, have no home to go to recuperate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32360/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are witnessing very distressing scenes from the refugee camp in Calais, sometimes referred to as the jungle. It has been home to 6,000 souls, 800 of whom are unaccompanied minors, in other words, children. There is very deep concern for everybody in that refugee camp, but particularly for children, as they are moved from Calais and dispersed to other parts of France. To our very great...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----even 200 of these child refugees so they can find sanctuary and a future here in our State?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The matter merits separate consideration, not least because it is the first occasion on which we have had visibility of the issue. The Chairman has made the wise suggestion that we write to the HSE seeking further information. Somewhere on our programme of work we need to give a dedicated focus to this issue that has not been without public controversy.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It means that the witnesses may have to return at some stage also.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome all of the witnesses. Unlike Deputy Catherine Connolly, I do, in fact, have the contemporaneous notes of the conversations in front of me. At a previous hearing of the committee, Mr. Alan Stewart's boss, Ms Aideen O'Reilly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----informed the committee that contact had been made with NAMA by PIMCO in reporting concerns under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. As somebody who was party to some, although not all, of the telephone calls in question, did PIMCO seek the acquiescence of NAMA to the fee arrangement in question?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will come to that matter in due course. With no disrespect to Mr. Stewart, that is not what I asked. Would he be surprised if I were to say to him-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: One would be surprised then that the minutes of the board meetings on 13 March, which were signed off on by the NAMA board, state PIMCO had sought NAMA's acquiescence, namely, to the fee arrangement.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am trying to establish that, as somebody who was party to some of the telephone calls, this certainly was not part of Mr. Stewart's impression.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Board minutes of the meeting on 11 March, two days previously, recorded the following sentiment:PIMCO, ostensibly in the spirit of transparency, wish to advise NAMA about the success fee arrangement and sought NAMA's agreement that it was appropriate. The word "ostensibly" is used in minutes of the board meeting, which it seems is questioning the motivation of PIMCO which, it should be borne...