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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly's friend, Mr. McEnery, seemed to imply that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Daly brief any journalists on this or has he been briefing against the Comptroller and Auditor General? I ask this just for clarification.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I warmly welcome the introduction of this legislation. In particular, I welcome the provision allowing for the creation of a new special speed limit of 20 km/h. Last year, I, along with Deputy Ellis, introduced the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, known as Jake's law. It was introduced in memory of Jake Brennan, who was knocked down outside his home in Kilkenny on 12 June 2014. Six year old...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thought for one second that I only had one minute and nine seconds. I would have had to speak very quickly.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: From listening to the debate, this path has been well trodden. We have heard all of the arguments why it is unacceptable to the majority that people should pay for domestic water supplies a second time. The Minister of State is right that nothing is free. Yes, things have to be paid for. Those of us in elected office need to identify from where the moneys will come. That is entirely...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yet those on the Fianna Fáil benches pursue their policy of prevarication, delay and, ultimately, deception. I do not believe they intend to see through on their promise to abolish water charges. Those on the Government and Fianna Fáil benches need to understand that those who proposed the introduction of domestic water charges have lost the argument. I heard Deputy Barry Cowen,...

Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the witnesses and I thank Ms Patricia Devlin for her work on this matter, which was most insightful. Overall, there is some reassurance from the presentations. I wish to make a suggestion without getting into the entire HR issue. Clearly, there must be discretion and the ability to use the full toolkit. My suggestion is that matters of sanction and disclosure ought to be hardwired...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, the ministerial appointments, such as special advisers and so forth.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the witness say that for a fact? If that is the case, I understand it. If not and when we just had a new Government, it appeared that they were running and fleeing the ship early on.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not questioning that people are entitled to their severance. I just wondered about the figure. If it was a new Government, were all these folks heading off to the horizon? However, if the 41 is a consequence of a change of Government, that makes sense. I simply wished to check that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the positive side of the ledger, the Central Bank representatives have accepted the report and they have remediated the shortcomings, so they tell us. On the negative side, my reading of this in respect of the Central Bank is that the lack of compliance was quite shocking. I appreciate the nature of operational risk and that there are no 100% guarantees. I appreciate the level of growth...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is that sufficient? Is that ratio sufficient?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the HR function stretched?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am trying to be helpful. If it is an issue that there is a staffing deficit within the human resources or industrial relations functions, then it is something one would be concerned about. Mr. Quinn referred to a criticism relating to the legal files and remarked that documented legal evidence was not in the right folder.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Where was the legal advice? The report refers to compliance with good practice. Page 35 of the report refers to key good practice requirements. One key stipulation is whether documented legal advice is obtained, whether internal or external. The letter X is beside that statement, which means that the Central Bank was not compliant. Is Mr. Quinn trying to say the advice received was in a...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not wish to be rude but could the Comptroller and Auditor General clarify if that was the problem, namely, that he was looking to have it all in one file but that it was dissipated across the system?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. That is really bad.