Results 11,061-11,080 of 21,157 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister. On 10 December 2014, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, and Deputy Brendan Ryan met to discuss a senior alerts scheme. The meeting took place nine days after the deadline for the submission of tenders for grant-funded telecare services for the elderly. Two other people attended the meeting, Mr. Gerry Bunting, managing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The two individuals attended the meeting with the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, and Deputy Brendan Ryan.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: This turn of events will more than likely give rise to litigation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Bunting is a constituent of Deputy Brendan Ryan.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is present and I ask him to familiarise himself with the case.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does ministerial interaction with persons with an interest in a live procurement and a meeting such as the one I described comply with standards of openness, transparency and a non-discriminatory regime?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do, and when the initial approach was made for the meeting, the Minister’s Department refused the meeting.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Plenty of people know about the meetings.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Other bidders who were unsuccessful know about the meetings.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out in monetary terms the income, including pension-related benefits, to be reinstated to current and former Ministers under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill, FEMPI, 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40796/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, as we debated the FEMPI legislation, I brought forward amendments that would allow the Minister the opportunity to ensure serving and former Ministers would not enjoy a pay or pension bonanza under it and he refused to accept them. My question today is for him to set out in monetary terms the extent of this payback for serving and, most particularly, former Ministers, taoisigh,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, the commitment in respect of serving Ministers is not set out in the legislation; it is voluntary in nature but never mind that. How will Mr. Brian Cowen, former Taoiseach, who is currently struggling manfully on a pension of €134,000 fare or John Bruton, former Taoiseach, on a pension of €126, 000? What of "We have it so we will spend it", former Minister for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minster deems it appropriate in a time of emergency, as his legislation sets out, to reinstate and to bump up those disgraceful pension levels.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The advantage conferred on former Ministers and taoisigh is self-evident in the eye-watering level of pension they enjoy. I know the Minister disagrees with me on this point. Those pensions are indefensible, and were always indefensible, but particularly so given the era of austerity that has been visited on people throughout the country, which was delivered by some of the very same...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has been prudent about protecting the advantage conferred on that small number of politicians.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, the Minister has not. It is emergency legislation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is on anything but robust ground. His disregard is for the taxpayer.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Data (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the indicators that exist to measure the participation of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in public procurement; if there are targets for the participation of these enterprises in public procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40612/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the gains to public sector workers' incomes (details supplied) under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41097/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Nov 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to impose additional reductions in pay, and changes to working terms and conditions, on those public sector workers who are members of unions who have not signed up to the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41098/15]