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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have made the point on the code of conduct. I take no comfort from that. The Minister will bring it here, we will chat about it, and the Minister will go off and do whatever he will do according to the evidence to date. Second, it is entirely disingenuous for the Minister to state that this was always his intention. He made clear his intention that there would be a fee, but he has...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in respect of the fees themselves. It is unacceptable for the committee that we operate in this way. If I might respectfully say to the Cathaoirleach whose position I respect, whatever the party politics of an issue like this, there is a bigger issue for the committee and how we work. If we are being told that there will be pre-legislative scrutiny and that this is a collective...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: How original.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: First, it is really dishonest for the Minister to use the introduction of prescription fees and other cuts over which the Government has presided over as cover for introducing in this legilation multiple fees. Second, he knows, as we all do, that the reason the fees issue is controversial in the course of this debate at this committee is that it is accepted across the board that having a fee...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to object to the taking of Committee Stage of this legislation today. I say that on the basis that, at the 11th hour, the Minister has introduced a very substantial amendment to the legislation relating to the fees regime. The Minister and the committee are aware that the issue of fees was the most contentious item in respect of the restoration of full freedom of information...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 was not provided with enhanced redundancy when other persons employed on a similar basis were provided with same. [47727/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (12 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in the application for asylum in respect of a person (details supplied). [47726/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is only one word to describe the Finance Bill and the budget from which it stems, and that word is "insidious". The Minister tried to pull off some stunt on budget day, with efforts to spin and distract people from the worst of the Government's latest bout of brutal cuts. We said at the time that the devil would be in the detail. In the Social Welfare Bill and now in this Finance...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise two issues. One year has passed since the decision to locate the new children's hospital at St. James's Hospital. A new heart centre at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin which was privately financed is opening today. People are watching and wondering when the new children's hospital will be delivered. A deal has been struck to sell the national lottery-----

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the Taoiseach has indicated that money is going to be ring-fenced. When will the national paediatric hospital development board Bill be brought forward? Will the Taoiseach also indicate when the consolidated domestic violence legislation will be forthcoming?

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: As usual.

Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not have 30 years' service in this place but I can say from the recent years I have served here that I have always been struck by Tom's professionalism, courtesy and good humour. Let this be said also of all of the ushers who work in the Oireachtas. I join with others in thanking Tom for this and in congratulating him for such an outstanding record of public service. The idea of a...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is the requirement of Deputy Kenny, as Taoiseach? Is it to stand by his man?

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the Taoiseach who is the joker.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reject the Taoiseach's assertion that this is about cutting costs but not services. It is very clear from the letter from the four hospital CEOs that their experience is that it is not simply prudent, cost-cutting savings that are being made but that services are being undermined. This morning cancer patients and their families woke to the news that they are next in line to be hit by...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is time for the Minister, Deputy Reilly, to go. He should resign. These four hospitals - the Mater, St. James's, Tallaght and Crumlin children's hospital - provide vital services. Their CEOs say the Government's cuts and demands for fewer staff and shorter waiting lists are unsustainable and undeliverable and that this approach is damaging the foundations of the health system. When...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I should not be too surprised at the Taoiseach's expression of confidence in the Minister, because it is clear that he lives in some kind of warped bubble regarding these matters.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's backbenchers do not like hearing this, but they will hear it. The CEOs of these four hospitals have described the Government's proposed cuts of up to €1 billion as short-sighted and random. It is very clear from reports from Crumlin children's hospital that children with cancer are experiencing delays to chemotherapy. That is now on the public record. It is...