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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that Ms Murdock has only been in the job for a few months. Is it the case that, in that time, she has not had a conversation with anyone from An Garda Síochána in respect of this review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I repeat that I am not referring to individuals who may lobby any agency. We are talking here about a scenario where people from within GoSafe raised very serious concerns and queries as to the standard of the equipment and its "use-worthiness". It seems people were brought before the courts for driving with excessive speed in circumstances where they had not, in fact, been doing so. It...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I apologise for being in and out of the meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Only one minute?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Just as a rider to that, I think it is necessary for us nonetheless to respond to Mellissa English's letter just as a matter of courtesy to her because I sense there might have been a bit of crossing of wires. It is important that, as a committee, we set out acceptance of the independence and quality of the advice but also explain our perspective on it, given the fact this is new terrain,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe anybody in this committee questioned the PLA, Mellissa English's, independence or the quality of her advice. It is important to state that, so no incorrect inference can be drawn. However, I understood from our conversation at the last meeting that the concern was to get a second opinion. The committee is breaking new ground. There is no established set of experiences...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships Expenditure (17 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 69. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the PPP unit in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has provided him with an updated total cost to the State per annum of PPPs in the waste water sector, transferred from the local authorities to Irish Water; if he has ordered a value for money audit of these PPPs; if he is prepared to do so; and if he will...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That would be extremely useful. Sinn Féin is very pleased that this legislative work is almost complete. I thank the Minister for taking on board some of the suggestions and congratulate him and the Government - to break new ground - on introducing this legislation. All of us understand it is critically important. It is important that those who can avail of its protections understand...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I see merit in Oireachtas approval for the disclosures recipient. Given the stature of the type of person envisaged in the legislation, one would hope his or her appointment to the role would not be a matter of controversy, but laying the matter before the Oireachtas would probably be good practice and do no harm. Regarding Deputy Sean Fleming's second amendment, I have grave reservations...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will happily withdraw amendment No. 45 in favour of amendment No. 44. I was going to point out that there was a typographical error in my amendment, but it is hardly worth saying this now. I am concerned about the issue of volunteers. I have no wish to labour the point or rehearse the argument, but I am pleased to hear that provision will be made in the guidelines. I accept absolutely...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will time be set aside for the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, to make a statement to the Dáil on the resignation last night of the chairman of the West and North-West Hospitals Group, Mr. Noel Daly, and the serious conflict of interest arising from the Minister's original appointment of Mr. Daly as chairman of the group? In respect of the commission of investigation...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government publish the interdepartmental group's report?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: And broke them.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: So legislate for it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning people are reading in the newspaper that the HSE is backing down on the issue of excessive salary top-ups for senior managers of voluntary hospitals and section 35 organisations, as they are called. The Tánaiste will recall that people were shocked in the recent past when they learned about the scale of the top-ups received by some of these individuals. They were even more...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not just an issue for the Minister for Health but particularly for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin. It is also one for the Tánaiste and the Government. I am sure the Tánaiste is no different from me in that public servants still write to him and recount the level of difficulty they are experiencing following a series of very...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government legislate?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The facts are established.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 30:In page 15, to delete lines 2 to 4 and substitute the following:“(a) the person to whom the protected disclosure was made or referred has ascertained, by way of express permission by the person making the protected disclosure, that she or he does not object, in particular if the person to whom such disclosure is made reasonably believes that this is necessary...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move amendment No. 31:In page 15, to delete line 7.