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Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me object on the following grounds.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday we objected to the rushing through of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014, which is to be guillotined. It is wrong. We have waited a very long time for the legislation, which was signalled in the programme for Government. I reiterate the objection.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of the same legislation, I ask, once again, that five minutes be allocated for the non-aligned Deputies to contribute to the debate.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is a chartered accountant. It certainly is not.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, the answer is that there has been no direct contact.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: But the ambassador or the Administration have not been contacted directly. That was my question.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not good enough.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also warmly congratulate the Tánaiste on her new position. I welcome the clear and measured response she has given on the previous issue. Like others, I hope for a successful outcome. I want to raise the conflict in the Middle East which is, once again, spiralling out of control. In the past two days, the Israeli Defence Forces have killed 50 people and wounded more than 500 in...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Tánaiste's advice for Irish citizens is necessary and instructive, but I put it to her that by far the greater concern at this time is for the men, women and children of Gaza. I have no doubt that the Tánaiste is gravely concerned by this turn of events, which amounts to more than a threat to the people of Gaza. This is a catastrophe in motion. Whereas the...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the long-overdue Government responses to and the Dáil debates on the Constitutional Convention reports. We are awaiting the Government's official response to the report on Dáil electoral reform. That was due last December. The deadline for the Government's response to the convention's fifth report, on the right to vote of citizens resident...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is one of the issues we debated when the Minister was conceiving this scheme. No part of the Minister's answer resolves the issue that a pregnant worker would have, for example, if she falls ill, takes her sick leave and clocks up more or and more of the leave for which she is eligible, with consequences further down the line. It is a genuine concern. I hope the Minister will take...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Minister is aware of the impact the recent series of austerity budgets has had on service levels and on people's capacity to spend, plan and budget for their own households and lives. It seems from the soundings from the new Tánaiste and leader of the Labour Party, whom I congratulate on her new positions, that she is also aware of this. While I appreciate that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is certainly not a fortune teller, but he is the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. His Government colleagues, including the Minister for Finance, might believe him when he says "objectively, we have done a good job" of protecting the most vulnerable people in society, but that is not the experience on the ground. The budgets that have been delivered by this Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Minister referring to someone like the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the quantum of adjustment in public expenditure required in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29846/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2015 (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question relates to the forthcoming budget which is only three months away. We are coming to the end of this Dáil session and I would like the Minister to set out the extent of cuts he envisages in the forthcoming budget. Will he set out where the Department is at in budgetary planning?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he anticipates any further use of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation; and the purpose or purposes for which he would be prepared to consider its future use. [29615/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the interests of open government, he is prepared to legislate to require every public body that is fully funded by the Exchequer, and other bodies that receive substantial public funding, to disclose pay and pension arrangements for staff; and if he will make public the details of the public service pension arrangements on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact of his plans for public procurement reform on the delivery of community services; and if a cost-benefit analysis has been undertaken by his Department in relation to this. [29613/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Appointments (9 Jul 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 33. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the implementation of the special adviser pay cap; and if he will report on the implementation of, and extent of compliance with, the guidelines on staffing of ministerial offices. [29612/14]