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Order of Business (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste did not answer the question. When will the co-ordination group report to Government?

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely not.

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It did not tally with what the Minister had to say.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: All of us looked with horror at the storms, not least yesterday. Over 200,000 homes are still without electricity. As we know the cost of the damage will run into tens of millions of euro. I wish to ask the Tánaiste about the national co-ordination group. I understand it is meeting this morning to assess the damage. When will the committee report to Government? When will the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Following the evidence of the chairman of GSOC to the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions yesterday it has become evident that the Government has sought to mislead citizens about the bugging controversy. Let us be clear. To avoid surveillance, members of a Government oversight agency were forced to meet in cafés rather than hold meetings in their offices and to...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is passing the buck, which is not all that surprising. Yesterday, it took a considerable period to have the Taoiseach admit that he had misquoted the Garda Síochána Act 2005. His first reaction when all of this came to public attention was to point the finger at the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and apportion blame there. That is what the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It appears to me now that is the style of this Government. The Government has now placed a question mark over its ability to oversee impartial, accountable policing in this State. This is the gravest disservice which the Government can do to An Garda Síochána. Can the Tánaiste confirm that no agency of this State was authorised to put GSOC under surveillance? Can he...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Chairman has made a proposition to get information from the CPP about the rights of the witness. A decision not to give this man a transcript of his evidence was taken in the absence of that clarification. My difficulty with the proposed course of action is that it still stands as a decision of the committee not to give Sergeant McCabe a transcript of his evidence, which was taken in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That Sergeant McCabe requested the meeting to be held in private is correct. However, it must be recalled that was on foot of the committee asking him to take legal advice. It should be borne in mind that a legal adviser was present for the duration of the meeting. It is nonsense to suggest that somehow we could go to the final frontier in terms of our line of questioning. I believe we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Unfortunately I had a prior engagement and could not be at the meeting last week. I was astonished at the decision taken by the committee. To go back to first principles, before we come to the CPP or any other body, the reason the evidence from Sergeant McCabe was taken in private session was as a precaution to ensure neither the committee nor the sergeant, wittingly or otherwise, stepped...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has been given two opportunities to correct the record of the Dáil. I now invite him for a third time to do so. The clear implication of what he has said and restated in respect of GSOC is that it was not in compliance with the law. That is not true.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is important that the Taoiseach avails of the opportunity to make that clear.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach will need to do it at some stage. I do not know what his game is but it is not helpful to GSOC to insinuate and repeatedly state it acted outside the law.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope the Taoiseach will avail of that opportunity. We have had the legislation read to us and we know what the law says. We now need clarification on the Taoiseach's position. On the consumer protection and competition Bill, the Taoiseach will be aware that the succession of stealth charges introduced by this Government have placed middle and low income families under huge pressure....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (11 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department and the Office of Public Works will publish the detailed flood hazard and flood maps in order to comply with the EU floods directive. [6792/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (11 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the 84 positions filled by the Health Service Executive under JobBridge in 2013. [6186/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (6 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the total stock of wine held by his Department; the current market value of this stock of wine; the details of any sales of this wine in each year since 2011; the details of any of this wine that was sold below market value; the reasons for such sales; the persons or organisations to whom...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (6 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of revenue staff working on tackling tax evasion and tax avoidance in 2013 and 2014. [5952/14]