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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (11 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual cost for domiciliary care allowance oral hearings to include as separate line items, hotel room hire, mileage for Department personnel who attend the hearings, subsistence for Department personnel who attend the hearings, allowances paid to Department personnel in addition to their basic pay and any...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (11 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 420. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in correspondence received by him, the four religious congregations reconsidered their position regarding the provision of a financial contribution to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme following the statement made by the Holy See to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (11 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 496. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of recent comments, her plans to bring forward legislation affording adopted persons automatic access to their birth certificates and files. [11951/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Graduate Nursing Scheme Issues (11 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 505. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable for final year student nurses and midwives to work 39 hours per week on 13 hour shifts for €6.29 per hour; his plans for the remuneration of student nurses and midwives in the coming years [11565/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 506. To ask the Minister for Health the reason home helps contracted by CLR Home Help for the Health Service Executive Dublin Mid West are being rostered less than the seven hours per week in contravention of the legally binding Labour Court recommendation of 17 September 2013. [11566/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (11 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 555. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department will take to include a prescribed drug used for patients with Multiple Sclerosis in the medical card scheme (details supplied) [12016/14]

Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to introducing consolidated and reformed domestic violence legislation to address all aspects of domestic violence, threatened violence and intimidation in a manner that provides protection for victims. I have raised this promised legislation consistently, but we still have no sign as to when we can expect it. The State has not yet signed the European...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also asked about the legislation.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Rehab Group is in receipt of in excess of €83 million of public funds, and the group and its enterprise enjoys the benefits of charitable status in the State. Last week, Ms Angela Kerins, the current chief executive officer of Rehab, appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts. At the meeting she refused to reveal details of the pay levels of senior executives within Rehab,...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Tánaiste for those responses, and it is very clear at this stage that Members of the Oireachtas are of one mind on this issue, whether on the Government or the Opposition benches. We are all absolutely insistent at this stage that full details in respect of payments to Rehab executives must be made public without any further delay. I welcome that the Tánaiste, along...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste has made his position on Mr. Flannery clear and we are of one mind on the issue. He must appear before the Committee of Public Accounts and has an absolute obligation to do so. Will the Tánaiste make that known to the Taoiseach and Cabinet colleagues, and if necessary will he make direct contact with Mr. Flannery? I hope that will not be necessary but if it is, given...

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think that is a very good suggestion, because you were not given an answer to that line of questioning. I am working on the assumption that Rehab will furnish us with all of the information, following the 13 points that we have now put to them. We were very clear that we wished for Mr. Flannery and the remuneration committee to appear before us. They may or may not have been asked and I...

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not sure if this is the time to raise the following matter in respect of our sitting last week to deal with Rehab.

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It strikes me that in addition to the request for information under the 12 headings, we should ask if funding from the Department of Social Protection found its way into Rehab. We have been quoted the figure of €82 million or €83 million but we are clearly missing funding that is coming from another Department. I know the issue concerning the firm Complete Eco Solutions is on...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Sector Pensions Issues (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 148. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 19 February 2014, if he will reference the specific provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 to which he refers; the basis on which he believes Údarás na Gaeltachta does not, unlike in the case of all other senior managers across the civil and public sector, have to...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Eitilte (6 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 148. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 19 February 2014, if he will reference the specific provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 to which he refers; the basis on which he believes that Údarás na Gaeltachta does not, unlike all other senior managers across the civil and public sector, have to make...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: For €1 an hour.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Rabbitte.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I note that the Taoiseach, in a display of faux modesty, refused to mark his Government's score card. He was probably wise to make that decision because the role of an effective Opposition is to hold the Government of the day to account, which means that it is our job to score the Government's card. Perhaps more importantly, it is the job of citizens to make decisions on the scores. On...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Local Training Initiatives Review (5 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the review of local training initiatives that, according to the FÁS service plan for 2013, was to be completed by the end of 2013 [11041/14]