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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 632. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the partial-year and full-year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47073/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 633. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he was consulted prior to ESB management’s decision to treat the employees' defined benefit pension scheme as a defined contribution pension scheme in the company's annual accounts from 2010 and each year thereafter. [47091/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 634. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he signed off on the ESB annual accounts of 2010 on behalf of the Government as the majority shareholder, and each year thereafter since taking office. [47092/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 635. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in 2011, his attention was drawn to concerns raised by the ESB auditors, KPMG, prior to his signing of on the company's annual accounts on behalf of the Government as the majority shareholder with regards to the company's accounting treatment of the employees' defined benefit pension scheme. [47093/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 636. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in 2011, his attention was drawn to refusals by ESB management to provide the company's auditors, KPMG, with documentation, information and confirmation regarding the company's decision to change the accounting treatment of the employees' defined benefit pension scheme to a defined contribution pension scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 726. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47076/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 829. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47081/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 830. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he will bring the report of the interdepartmental group on the implementation of the recommendations of Mr. Justice Quirke before Government. [47089/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 852. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47070/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 976. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 27 March 2013, when she will supply the requested figures of missing unaccompanied asylum seekers' minors [46467/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1006. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of her Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47072/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47079/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47085/13]

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No more than the Tánaiste, I do not wish to jump to conclusions about this case. We should not, as it would not be helpful. Perhaps we can imagine the scene - a knock at the families' doors and their children taken away, from what we can ascertain on the simple basis that their colouring did not fit the racial profile of the families concerned. A number of core and deeply troubling...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The second issue relates to the State's capacity to protect the rights of children. Many people following this story see the marked contrast between, on the one hand, last week's revelation by the children's Ombudsman of the HSE's failure to intervene over several years after a child made multiple allegations of rape or another report of 4,100 children who had been assessed by the HSE as...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It would be better for the inquiry to be independent and under the auspices of the Ombudsman for Children, Ms Emily Logan, from the outset.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Although it is true to say that there was a culture in this State and beyond of not reporting child abuse, which occurred most commonly in the family home, the State has a much deeper legacy of institutional abuse and of failing to protect children. It also has a history of confiscating children. This is a part of the psychological landscape of how many people view the State and its...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They see a hands-off approach in respect of the many children who are in genuine risk and crisis while the children in Tallaght and Athlone were arbitrarily taken from their homes.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the Tánaiste's emphatic statement of equality of treatment for every child and family-----