Results 14,661-14,680 of 21,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (6 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's estimate of the total amount of revenue lost from tax avoidance in 2013 and projected to be lost in 2014. [5953/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (6 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 95. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of staff in her Department working on tackling social welfare fraud. [5954/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Cost (6 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department's estimate of the cost to the Exchequer of social welfare fraud in 2013 and the projected cost in 2014. [5955/14]
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the regulations be seen in the House?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The whistleblower legislation is now on Second Stage in the Dáil. It requires new regulations in terms of the confidential recipient and whistleblowing mechanism within An Garda Síochána. Could the Taoiseach confirm to the Dáil that those regulations will be laid before us and whether we will have an opportunity to consider and debate them? The Taoiseach might be aware...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Magdalen laundry redress scheme. [5272/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 28. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the terms of the ex gratia scheme to which eligible women must agree if they are to receive compensation contain a provision which states that applicants who are determined to be eligible under the scheme and who have accepted the offer made to them and signed the acceptance form and statutory...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (5 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the final reports to the European Commission on all closed European globalisation fund programmes; the total moneys returned or due to be returned to the European Commission from each of these programmes. [5823/14]
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: In doing that, the Minister, with his ministerial colleagues, has done a grave disservice to the work we do as Members of the Oireachtas and as members of that committee.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: A grave disservice was equally done to the notion of whistleblowers, protected disclosures and protecting-----
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am speaking. I have the floor.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No. I have the floor. The Minister will have his opportunity to respond.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have the floor.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The comments, as the Minister is very well aware, relate to the appearance of the whistleblower before the Committee of Public Accounts. Those comments, along with others of his colleagues, were a calculated and failed attempt to frustrate the work of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: A grave disservice has been done to the notion of whistleblowers, protected disclosures and the kind of protections that must exist for persons who step forward, whether they are members of the Garda Síochána, any other agency of the State or any private entity. It is a deep irony that the Minister is bringing forward this very welcome legislation this evening while last week he...
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----suggesting that the Committee of Public Accounts had acted improperly in a bid to prevent this particular whistleblower from presenting his case to us.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The other irony is that in the course of this controversy, the only names that have been bandied about, and with wild abandon, have been the names of the two Garda whistleblowers. They have had comments made on them during committee proceedings by, among others, the Garda Commissioner. My colleague Deputy Sean Fleming referred to some of those remarks. Yet we had to hear from the...
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was indeed shocking and scandalous.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me turn to the legislation.
- Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not my wont. I am sorry if a statement of the facts offends the Minister's delicate sensibilities, but there you go. I have welcomed the introduction of this legislation and particularly commend the work of officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The European Commission anti-corruption report on resourcing and the regulatory impact assessment of the Bill...