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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?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Some suggestion was made in the course of the week that perhaps you would not appear before the committee. I need you to tell me that it was always your intention to come before this committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: If management, a member of the board or whomsoever was the appropriate person had approached you at any stage in respect of your salary and had set out the facts to you, in terms of the sourcing of the moneys, the current climate, public sector pay policy, the reputation and standing of the clinic and so on - all of the issues that are now at play in the public domain - would you have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: You would have considered it.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course they do. Nobody is disputing that.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. It is the manner of the appointment that is the problem. Of course the directors have duties that they have to fulfil. Nobody is gain-saying that but as a director of the Central Remedial Clinic, Mr. Nugent must be cognisant of the fact that the vast bulk of the clinic's funding comes from the HSE. It is public money. He also has to be cognisant of the fact that in association with...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is a diversion. Mr. Martin has changed his tune from half an hour ago in terms of what ---