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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Minister of State to elaborate on his earlier comments on storm damage in order that I can be sure I understand him correctly. The estimate for damage is in the region of €65 million, with counties Clare and Galway accounting for the bulk of the cost, at €41 million. I understand the remedial process is being led by the local authorities and the Minister of State was...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Sector Pensions Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 15 January 2014, if he will provide details as requested relating to his Department as provided by all other Ministers. [3793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Investment Bank Loans (28 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of investment sought and received by the Government from the European Investment Bank for each year from 2007 to 2013; the details of the projects for which this money was sought; and if he will outline the Government's contribution towards each of these projects. [3784/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Pensions Data (28 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 15 January 2014, if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers between January 2011 and December 2013; the grade of the persons awarded the added years; and the number of added years awarded in each instance. [3593/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out the responsibilities of the Statute Law Reform Director; to whom the director is answerable; the period of the appointment; and if it is subject to a contract. [3765/14]

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: So the Commissioner does not regard whistleblowers as disloyal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will end with this question. I thank the Chairman for his forbearance. On the previous occasion the Commissioner appeared before the committee, I asked him the number of reports that had been made to the confidential recipient - not the detail of them - over the previous 12 or 18 months and he was not in a position to give a figure at the meeting. What is the figure now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why will the Commission not give us a number?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, we have not and I have made clear to the Commissioner that I am not looking for the detail or the identity-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner's position is not to tell us and I find that troubling.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not transparent. Is it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner is, therefore, telling me to ask a parliamentary question rather than to annoy the Commissioner.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Commissioner

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner said he is the Accounting Officer and that he is the person to put questions to but when I ask what form an eight-month procedure takes to investigate one of the complaints, he cannot tell me what was the process. When we ask how many people have come forward to the confidential recipient, he cannot give us a figure. We are not looking for names or details.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, that the Commissioner will not tell us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Mahoney still did not speak to him.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: To summarise this, as far as I can ascertain we have two directly conflicting accounts of what happened in respect of the whistleblowers coming forward. The reason by the way that this element is so important is that, in respect of accountability structures, provisions and protections for whistleblowers are essential, albeit as an action of last resort. The Commissioner said it is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Callinan accept that those facts are contested?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a case of my view or what I think or what I have been told. Solely on the basis of information that has been in the public domain for some time, it is clear that the facts as they were presented by the Commissioner today are contested. The two individuals concerned have very different accounts of events from March 2012 onwards.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Chairman to bear with me for two more minutes. The Commissioner described their behaviour as disgusting. It is a strong thing to say that they have carried themselves in a manner that is disgusting.