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Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for instance, in the United States. I raise it as a serious point because, although one does not want to penalise voluntary effort or smother people with administrative burdens, the objective is to create and codify a system whereby lobbying is fully transparent and regulated. Deputy Sean Fleming has given an unqualified welcome to amendment No. 18, but I have deep reservations about...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: My amendment, No. 17, harks back to an issue that we debated on Committee Stage. It revolves around a concern I had with the Bill's proposal to exclude lobbying by groups with ten or fewer employees. If memory serves me, on Committee Stage the Minister set out his concerns about having an onerous administrative burden on small businesses. By that as it may, I remain of the view that this...

Order of Business (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: When does the Government propose to hold a referendum on Article 41.2, the women in the home clause, of the Constitution, as recommended by the Constitutional Convention? When will the Government act on its commitments regarding the wider availability of adrenaline auto-injectors given by the Minister for Health to Caroline Sloan, the mother of Emma Sloan, who died as a result of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are circumstances where a person over the age of 55 who has been on community employment for three years can continue on this scheme or if there are other labour activation programmes available to such a person. [1245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of his stated commitment to transparency and accountability in the spending of public moneys, his views that it is acceptable for a public body fully funded by the Exchequer to withhold from the public record details of public service pension arrangements on retirement for senior managers; and if he will legislate to require...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Sports Funding (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 490. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that is available from his Department to fund sports activities for young persons in disadvantaged areas. [49630/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 491. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a decision been made by his Department of the provision of funding to a centre (details sullied) in County Dublin for 2015. [49650/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a long-term illness scheme; if he will add Leukodystrophy 4H syndrome onto the long-term illness scheme in view of the seriousness of this syndrome and the fact that there is only one recorded diagnosis of this rare condition in the State. [1083/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her view on whether it is appropriate for an educational institution (details supplied) to withhold a qualification from a student on the grounds that exam fees have not been paid. [1359/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (14 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 991. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial supports or grants that are available to boxing clubs funded by his Department, directly or via other bodies. [49628/14]

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: What else does the NAMA relationship manager do? I presume it is a male.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I presume the NAMA relationship manager has more tasks than investigating complaints.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it like a customer service thing?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Ombudsman does not have oversight responsibility for NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That would be a very credible channel for complaints.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a policy issue. In any event, we take it as read, because it has been said here clearly that if complaints, issues or concerns come to any of us - some members have indicated that they have some worries about NAMA having an open door policy and that we can bring to it-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure there is but I would suggest a more robust mechanism. However, that is probably a matter for Government. Deputy Costello raised the issue of the docklands, as perhaps did others. This comes down to NAMA as an entity, the scale of it and obviously the scale of the plans conceived for the docklands and the reality that, in its former incarnation, the development of that part of...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is excellent. I am familiar with the Grangegorman model and it is not a perfect one by any stretch. Mr. Daly will be aware there are new EU procurement rules. There is consultation underway at the moment which will allow enormous scope to create social clauses and local employment clauses that actually work and actually deliver. I welcome the fact NAMA has an open ear to that.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me assure Mr. Daly that it could be vastly improved on. There is an arts event in Sheriff Street on, I think, 27 January and I am sure the local people would be more than delighted to see people from NAMA come along, but I will write to NAMA to inform it of the details. It will be a theatrical piece that sets out the history of parts of inner city Dublin which are very close to Sheriff...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: They will specifically require that Mr. Daly does not sing.