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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise the issue of the HSBC and Revenue. Will I do so under correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have not had the opportunity to look at the transcript but I have no doubt they quote me accurately. The impression I was given as a member of this committee was that mediation was the preferred channel of resolution. A reasonable person who went back and read the totality of the exchange would come away with that impression, although I am prepared to go back and look at exactly what was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The response we got from Revenue is extremely helpful. It is fairly detailed but it still leaves us with the reality that the recoup for the State was extremely low when measured against the full asset value in the accounts. I suggest we ask Revenue to attend the committee to walk us through the information they have provided and give members the opportunity to raise other matters. For...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Magdalen Laundries (26 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all social welfare offices have received a directive that the payments to Magdalen laundry survivors, made under the restorative justice scheme, are not to be considered income under any means test. [8492/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (26 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if all health centres have received a directive that the payments to Magdalene laundry survivors, made under the restorative justice scheme, are not to be considered income, under any means test. [8493/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of a person who has changed their name by deed poll, the documentation that is required by such a person for the purposes of her Department issuing a new personal public service number card, and changing the person's name on their social welfare file; if this requirement is based on legislation, regulations, departmental circulars or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses (25 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public purchasers, including local authorities, are precluded from using social clauses in public procurement contracts until such time as the Working Group on Social Clauses in the Office of Public Procurement has completed its pilot projects, and decided what conditions to insert into the Government form of contract, they are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that her Department is currently reviewing the contractual arrangements between community employment supervisors and their direct employers; the reason for this review; the time frame for this review; and if she will provide a report on the findings of the review to date. [8204/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Agreements (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No.241 of 17 February 2015, if, and the way, Ireland's treaty obligation to ensure progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights to the maximum of available resources is taken into account in the comprehensive review of expenditure process; if the various Departments are instructed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Agreements (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will itemise the specific measures by which the Government's treaty obligation to ensure progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights to the maximum of available resources is reflected in the expenditure measures in budget 2015. [8076/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Agreements (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 17 February 2015, if he will report on his Department's contribution to the interdepartmental progress consultation on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights currently under way. [8075/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Pensions (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the annual pension payments to former Ministers and taoisigh, following the Haddington Road agreement reductions, sorted by payment, high to low, including the recipient's name. [8077/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 336. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which she received the report from the Attorney General-led working group which has, for the past two years, been studying the recommendations on gender equality amendments contained in the February 2013 report of the Constitutional Convention; the contents of the working group's report, including any positions proposed on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Redundancy Payments (24 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 344 of 1 April 2014 if he will provide an update on discussions between his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, regarding enhanced redundancy payments in the community and voluntary sector; and if there are proposals for legislation or new regulations to...

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is so insulting to lone parent families.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is insulting to the families.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Those most damaged by the change are people at work.

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 19:In page 5, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“(2) That within 1 month of enactment of this legislation the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission will independently verify, in a report laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas, that the legislation does indeed fully and faithfully implement the relevant recommendations contained within the...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I had spoken before the debate adjourned yesterday to amendment No. 19 in my name which proposed a review of the legislation to check its accuracy in delivering on Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendations. I have suggested a mechanism for such a review. Yesterday, when I asked the Minister to look favourably on the amendment, I was making the point that it would not prove a costly or very...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to introduce the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2015. This Bill has come to be known as Jake's law in memory of six year old Jake Brennan, who was knocked down and lost his life at 6.25 p.m. on 12 June 2014. Jake died in his mother's arms on the street where he lived and played for his all too short young life. In truth, this Bill...