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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: All right. I will not second-guess Mr. Quinn on that. I will conclude with more of a remark than a question. I am troubled by the fact that Mr. Quinn is playing down as an unfortunate oversight something that I would regard as nothing but common sense, which is that one would have one's documentation in a coherent fashion and filed appropriately so that not just the Comptroller and...

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, and, therefore, the treatment of it should have reflected 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: I am relieved to hear it. I wish to make one final remark. Mr. Quinn, quite correctly, I am sure, stated that the settlements we are dealing with represent 0.11% of the bank's total payroll expenditure in the period concerned. Again, that is fair enough but I wish to make the general observation that it is not the issue. If this is, in Mr. Quinn and others' heads and in his presentation,...

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 not how it came across to me. It is either defensive, which might be understandable, or it is dismissive, which is not good, healthy or understandable.

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 glad that Mr. Quinn has clarified that. I thank him.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: May I suggest that we do not entirely close the book on that. I know the Minister has, at last, confirmed that he will be here but we might require him to return. We also need to inform the NAMA representatives that their appearance on 29 September will not be a one-off but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----will be their first appearance and that we are now engaged in what will be an extensive examination of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Sep 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1147. To ask the Minister for Health the public services that are now available in County Clare to assist a person (details supplied) since the cutting of funding to Disabled People of Clare and its subsequent closure. [24998/16]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is actually not allowed. Did you break the rules, a Cheann Comhairle?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question is to whomsoever feels moved to answer it.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We usually get no answers but today everybody wants to answer. Fair play.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I wish to raise with the Tánaiste the issue of rent certainty. The housing action plan commits to the introduction of legislation on tenancy arrangements in the private rental sector and to a strategy for the private rental sector. The plan is high on promises but low on delivery, particularly on the issue of rent certainty. The Tánaiste will recall that Sinn Féin...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is rent certainty included?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise the issue of mental health and suicide prevention with the Tánaiste. Yesterday, the coroner's court held an inquest into the death by suicide of a young man in November 2014, Ryan Dempsey from the Liberties. He was in his early 20s and he had his full life ahead of him. He was clearly a young man at risk. He had been discharged five times from accident and emergency...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ten years ago A Vision for Change held out the promise of a modern, responsive, resourced service for people in crisis and with mental illness, including those with suicidal ideation and who are in acute danger. Ten years on that promise has been broken. That is a fact. All of the talk of political will and priority only serves to highlight the fact that for the past ten years mental...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Noted.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think that is the right approach because we obviously need to reflect on all of it. However, there is also a broader issue in respect of the section 38s and section 39s. So far, where difficulties, controversies and malpractice have been exposed, in some cases it is almost accidental or it is at least happening in a piecemeal fashion. Therefore, we need to consider how we can get a...