Results 15,241-15,260 of 21,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: One should bear in mind that the Government, and in particular, the Minister for Health, are the people in charge. What precisely does the Government intend to do to bring full clarity on this matter and to end the practices, some of which have been uncovered? It is only by doing this, by taking charge of the situation, that the Government has any hope of re-establishing that confidence in...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Tánaiste followed yesterday's meeting, he would know that at the tail end of the exchange with the Committee of Public Accounts, the information regarding the payments to the Mater hospital was unearthed. He also might have noticed, were he tuned in, that the HSE knew absolutely nothing about that. The top human resources person in the HSE was left dumbfounded by that...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The HIQA report was published in May 2012 and the audit took place almost one year later, in March 2013. It is now December 2013 and all the time, the Government seeks to put at arm's length, through HIQA-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and through the HSE, the sole responsibility for dealing with this issue and that is not good enough. This leads me to suspect-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----there may be an ambivalence on the Government's part in respect of top-up payments and breaching of pay caps.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: After all, the Tánaiste's own record is not terribly good on that matter. I put it to the Tánaiste again, what will the Government and the Minister for Health do directly to ensure that no one in the HSE can be told to get lost by any section 38 organisation?
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (12 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The rushed manner in which this measure is being introduced has been already referred to. In essence, it is a substantive legislative measure in its own right. The Minister is correct in saying that he gave us notice in September that he would be bringing this matter forward. However, we did not envisage it would be done at the tail-end of this session in such a hurried and rushed fashion....
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Given that the Minister sponsoring this disgraceful amendment does not even have the grace to appear and support his own warped and gratuitously cruel position in respect of survivors of the Bethany Home-----
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Given the clearly defensive stance of the spineless sheep on the Government backbenches, I think it only fair to give Deputies an opportunity to reconsider their position and, therefore, I request the vote be taken by other than electronic means.
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Fortunately, that is not the case. The Government says that mother and baby homes are excluded from redress. We have noted the exception of St. Patrick's Home on Navan Road. I query the rationale for this State excluding mother and baby homes. I go further and say there is a great need for us to uncover and put the full glare of public understanding on precisely what happened in mother...
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to know where is the Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter or indeed, his sidekick, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch who had so much to say last evening. I do not level that as a personal insult to the Minister of State, Deputy Perry, but it is quite clear he is not the member of the Government who should be seated, on his own, on the Government benches to take this debate....
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: My past? To what past is the Deputy referring?
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Then withdraw the amendment.
- Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what she said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is the private pension scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: We heard that 70 staff members are involved in the scheme. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about the balance of the staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why are the 70 staff in the alternative scheme not in the voluntary hospital superannuation scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that discussion with the HSE still live?