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Other Questions: Ministerial Expenditure (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister knows what the figures are.

Other Questions: Ministerial Expenditure (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a question of the Minister sanctioning them but of having information on them.

Other Questions: Ministerial Expenditure (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the aggregate figure?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are voluntary.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: So, they are voluntary.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The reason they challenged it in the courts was because so many of them have gone to the wall.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do not talk down the clock. Give them the assurance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State cannot let SMEs go under. That is what he is doing. That is the consequence.

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is an automatic caretaker.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify that public bodies are not restricted to using public procurement framework agreements such as the managed print services framework agreement and are free to use local providers; if he will issue a circular to this effect; his views on the implications of this clarification for other existing public procurement...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to public procurement framework agreements, particularly the managed print services, MPS, framework agreement. There have been controversies and legal actions on foot of that framework and its related circulars. Will the Minister clarify that public bodies are not restricted to using public procurement framework agreements such as the MPS and are, in fact, free to use...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have debated many of these issues in the past. The Minister of State will not be surprised to hear that I do not concur entirely with his assessment of the reformed procurement function for the State. My view is that it has had a number of very negative consequences, but we do not have the scope to debate that issue today. The Minister of State knows, too, that I am very positively...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is, however, a difficulty. The circular and the framework have had the effect of locking out a number of SMEs and microbusinesses, some of which have gone under because of the reformed system. Jobs have been lost. To the astonishment of the sector, when it approached Government and the procurement authority, it was told jobs was not their concern, it was none of their business. That...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Haddington Road agreement.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are all emergency measures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is more efficient. It is an efficiency measure.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the pay related provisions in the Lansdowne Road agreement for annualised salaries over €65,000; in addition, details of the full pay restoration provisions for salaries in excess of €65,000, at the conclusion of the Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26504/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has described here again this morning the Lansdowne Road agreement as a mechanism by which he proposes to unwind the Financial Emergency Measure in the Public Interest Acts, FEMPI, to use his language. Much of the commentary around this agreement has focused on people in lower pay grades and my question seeks to complete the picture. I have asked the Minister the implications...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for that reply which was very helpful. Let us consider this in the round. Rather than looking at the Lansdowne Road agreement and Haddington Road agreement separately, they must be viewed as a whole to understand what is happening in respect of what the Minister calls a measured and prudent unwinding of FEMPI. Those earning less than €65,000 will have about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (2 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: What I would say back to the Minister is that he is guilty of a very deliberate sleight of hand because he is deliberately insisting on looking at Lansdowne Road agreement and setting aside the Haddington Road agreement. We have to view the two of them to understand what the Minister's unwinding of the FEMPI legislation looks like and what the consequences of it are. He has provided a...