Results 12,761-12,780 of 21,203 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am asking whether, when the Minister presents a document such as this - clearly a great deal of work and thought has gone into it - he should produce figures in the abstract, or whether he should produce figures that take account of the fact that, for instance, there is a crisis in accident and emergency departments across the State. I also noted that, on the welfare resource...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister know the problem with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me outline the problem with that. I refer again to the problem in the accident and emergency Departments. The Department of Health and the HSE required a specific amount of resources to sort the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. It got a quarter of it what is requested.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was that not true?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Minister saying the €100 million was never requested?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why? Was the €25 million given in a lump sum?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: So there was never a request for €100 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: If I am not mistaken senior staff from the HSE asserted in the public domain that they had asked for in the region of €100 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure I am running out of time. I have one other issue to raise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: My next question is on the EU budgetary rules, specifically the expenditure benchmark. I raised this with the Minister during Question Time recently. I have both a question and concern to raise. My concern is that a further restriction is being placed on the room for manoeuvre of the State and any Government in respect of its expenditure decisions. My question arises because there seems...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the information for 2011 be circulated?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Data (27 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners reports a 95% compliance rate for payment of the property tax for the year 2014, in view of the fact that the Revenue Commissioners collect payment from source. [3411/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Data (27 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if some residential properties are exempt from payment of the property tax; and if so, the types of properties. [3412/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (27 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected eventual cost of the fence which is to be erected by the Office of Public Works around the Castletown Demesne, Celbridge, County Kildare. [3525/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (27 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding his Department and or the Office of Public Works has allocated for a court case regarding the right of way at Castletown Demesne, Celbridge, County Kildare to be taken by an organisation (details supplied); and the specific purposes or beneficiaries of such funds. [3526/15]
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the fact that the Tánaiste is open to assigning Dáil time to a debate on the findings of the report. It would be a very useful discussion to have. Try as she might to soften their edges, the findings are shocking, particularly in regard to child poverty and poverty in families headed by single parents. There is probably nothing very new in those findings but they are...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Secondary school teachers throughout the State have today embarked on their second day of strike action on the issue of junior cycle reform with the prospect of a third day of industrial action looming large. I am sure the Tánaiste will agree that this causes huge disruption for families, students and teachers. She will also appreciate that the mock leaving and junior certificate...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am interested to hear the Tánaiste's exposition to teachers and me, presumably as a parent, on what is best for our precious children.