Results 11,161-11,180 of 21,157 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It was extraordinarily long. The difficulty is that Mr. O'Daly cites the Department. The ultimate tool for questioning the Department and the Minister is parliamentary questions, but the information on this case has been sparse. If one reads the responses, one is nearly led to believe that in this case it was, in fact, the Mr. O'Daly office that took the call on there being no prosecution....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Have there been circumstances where Mr. O'Daly's office recommended prosecutions and where Departments have taken a different views
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. O'Daly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely not. I did not ask for it mainly because I knew I would not get it. I would request it if I thought there was any chance that it might be provided.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: The difference, in this case is that the client is a Government Department and the issues that arise are ones of public concern which involve the expenditure of public moneys.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Status (12 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has agreed to re-open the national swimming programme; and if so, when it will open; and the total allocation. [39830/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: General Scheme of a Public Sector Standards Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry I was not present to hear the initial contribution but I was attending another meeting. I presume the legislation in the US in respect of whistleblowers would penalise vexatious or malicious endeavours, just as it does here. If not, it would be a recipe for bounty hunting. The advice to look to international best practice is very good and we should follow it. In many instances,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: General Scheme of a Public Sector Standards Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to put a question to Dr. Byrne. I do not wish to create the impression that I am offering size as an excuse.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: General Scheme of a Public Sector Standards Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: The issue of connectedness is a problem in the Irish system. Judge Alan Mahon recognised it, the dogs on the street know it, the old school tie, where one lives and with whom one associates, the issue of conflicts of interest - not least in recent controversies - is writ large, and there is the use of insider information, which term I use softly not necessarily in its commercial sense. How...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of 22 amendments tabled, 14 have been ruled out of order as, I presume, they might constitute a charge on the Exchequer. It is hugely problematic for Deputies when their amendment is ruled out on that basis. It neuters the debate, especially when one is discussing legislation such as this which is all about pay rates and the restoration of pay and which, by definition, cannot be fully...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister clarify that before we move on?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Please. I will try not to drift.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: We could debate forever the general economic picture. When the Minister compares the pay of low-paid public servants with pay in the private sector he will be aware that we now rank second only to the United States for low pay. He will be aware that people in the private sector work on zero-hours contracts and what amounts to poverty wages. He should not take any succour from this and...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It will not because the amendments have been disallowed.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I reference that as further evidence of the big stick approach so beloved of this Administration. Nowhere in this legislation is full pay restoration benchmarked or signposted, milestone by milestone, for low income workers. What is being provided for is partial restoration, and only very partial restoration at that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not mention the minimum wage.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I mentioned poverty wages-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and zero hour contracts.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, to delete lines 3 to 29. This brings us back to our earlier conversation. In setting out the purpose of this Bill I stated that it provides for full pay restoration of cuts to higher portions of incomes. In other words, it provides for full pay restoration of cuts to incomes of between €65,000 and €110,000.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I am speaking about the third cut.