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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister will recall that at the time he did not invoke the provision as he did not have to do so. Public sector workers felt that, while they were nominally around the table for discussions, in fact, they were on the menu. They felt hugely disempowered. The Minister took an onerous power onto himself. It is welcome that the measure will be repealed and removed from the Statute Book...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was a case of accept it, or else.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the implications of his proposal to delete section 2B of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 for the take-home pay of Civil Service and other public sector workers; and his plans for future negotiations with the public sector trade unions. [42275/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question is in a similar vein, although it refers specifically to the Minister's proposal to delete section 2B of the FEMPI Act of 2009. As we all know, this gave him unilateral power to cut the pay of public servants and increase their hours. What is the implication of the repeal of that section for the take-home pay of civil service and public sector workers, and what are his plans for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to increase the social dividend and community benefit from spending on public procurement contracts, in view of the impending requirements under the new EU rules agreed in January 2014. [42057/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce stronger measures to prevent conflicts of interest, favouritism and corruption in public procurement contracts, in view of the impending requirements under the new EU rules agreed in January 2014. [42058/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of his recent announcements in relation to budget 2015, his plans to restore public sector pay for those earning €35,000 per annum or less; and the improvements in pay and conditions that public sector workers earning €35,000 or less per annum may expect in 2014-2015. [42055/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister read out all of the target groups involved, including children, lone parents, new communities, the unemployed, including the long-term unemployed, and every category he recited is box-ticked for the inner city of Dublin. I am very puzzled by this resource allocation model and how it functions because I cannot for the life of me figure out how such a model could be used to come...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister meet it?

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: On 16 October 2014 the Minister reiterated his and the Government's commitment to the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP. He lauded the scheme in terms of its ability to create opportunities, provide supports and ease the transition into meaningful employment for the harder to reach in the most disadvantaged areas in society. He announced that €46 million...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here we go again.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 135. To ask the Taoiseach his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention concerning Dáil reform; and when the Dáil will debate these recommendations. [41654/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 136. To ask the Taoiseach his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention concerning the entrenchment of economic, social and cultural rights; and when the Dáil will debate these recommendations. [41655/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 137. To ask the Taoiseach his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention regarding the convening of a second Convention, and the scope of subject matter that such a future Convention should consider; and when the Dáil will debate these recommendations. [41656/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has not yet received a reply from her Department to a letter sent on 29 August 2014 regarding the person's alleged mistreatment on a community employment scheme; and if she will provide a full response to the issues raised in the letter issued by the individual to her Department. [41337/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 495. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 7 October 2014 stating that the Government has also undertaken to look at making Article 41.2 of the Constitution on the role of women gender-neutral, and at including other carers both in and beyond the home, it has also undertaken to look at amending the Constitution to include the principle of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of the well-established and well-documented human rights and value for money concerns that have been in the public domain for many years, as well as the need to meet Ireland's obligations with respect to international standards on refugee reception, her plans to replace the direct provision system; if not, her reasons; and if so,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Issues (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 659. To ask the Minister for Health the position on each of the eight points presented to him by the survivors of symphysiotomy at their meeting with him on 19 September 2014. [41381/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Issues (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if he will favourably consider the survivors of symphysiotomy's draft proposal for a Government statement of truth. [41382/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Issues (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 661. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the UN Human Rights Committee's concluding observation on symphysiotomy at paragraph 11, that the Government has to date failed to, and therefore should now initiate, a prompt and comprehensive independent investigation into the practice of symphysiotomy, prosecute and punish the perpetrators, including medical personnel, and provide an...