Results 13,041-13,060 of 21,203 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: There was 24,000 applications.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is astonishing, is it not?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Pent up demand.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will remember that figure when we discuss gardaí on the beat and the needs of communities. I have a final question. What is the €230,000 for? Is it for psychometric testing?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who does that?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it outsourced?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: To whom? Is it tendered?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister does not have the information with him.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is arguing for additional moneys on the basis that more people are retiring than was anticipated and that is fair enough and logical. Deputy Fleming raised the issue of averaging the payments and how that might work out. I would have thought that if the Minister is to come before the committee seeking additional moneys he would, as a matter of course, be able to give us a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: For instance, can the Minister tell the committee how many, if any, of these 1,100 people receive a pension in excess of €100,000?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We would need that information. On 28 November 2012, the last time we dealt with this Supplementary Estimate, we had a discussion on the number of people in receipt of pensions in different bands. On that occasion the then Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brian Hayes, supplied answers on the basis of parliamentary questions that had been raised....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to know about the 1,100 new pensioners.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I want to know the gratuity they are paid and the pension band.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the same issue, we know that the average public sector worker has a pension of €30,000 or less. We also know that a specific group of people in the system are over-pensioned and receive excessive gratuities when they leave the public service. As the Minister acknowledged, we last discussed this matter in 2012, when 84 pensions in excess of €100,000 were being paid. Since...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nonsense.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Despite the Taoiseach's best efforts today, his language is jaded. So is his Government. The one point of clarification that has emerged is that all is well with him and the Tánaiste. I can only anticipate the sigh of relief across the country that they are playing happy families and having robust debates while none the less coming out on the same side of every argument. If...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy (9 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in his view, it is reasonable and fair that a worker for an education and training board who holds two half time positions equivalent to a full-time post, is only entitled to a pension for one half of that post but is paying the pension-related deduction on the full salary that is, for €53 pension the worker is paying...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's constant refrain has been that it is listening to the people. When people came out in record numbers onto the streets of Dublin in October and when that exercise was repeated not only in the capital city but also across the State in November, the Government had every reason to make at least a pretence of listening. People demonstrated on the streets because they believe...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have a short question relating to process. Let us imagine somebody - either the Department or the authorised officer - passed a dossier or file to Ms Feehily in which I was named in whatever form as the holder or someone with beneficial ownership of one of these accounts. What is the process? Clearly, Revenue has to make contact with me at some level to advise as part of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: What happens? Revenue gets the information. What is the next thing that happens in respect of people alleged to be involved?