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- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Give over. Answer the question.
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Apparently not, but the Minister is just the sensitive soul of this Chamber.
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will establish, fund, staff and accommodate a small dedicated unit charged to provide the following services for eligible Magdalen women as recommended by Mr. Justice Quirke and if this unit will publish quarterly reports on its work: a help-line accessible daily by the women to assist them to obtain the health, monetary and other...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On 7 November last, the Minister announced that the Cabinet had agreed details of the implementation of the Quirke scheme for women who had been in Magdalen laundries. However, the announcement at the time only dealt with monetary payments, which the women still await, with no mention of the other strands of Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendations. My question asks about those other strands,...
- Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Issues (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thought the Minister might give that answer. Obviously, the applications must be processed, but it is now ten months since the Taoiseach made the apology to the survivors of these laundries. Many of the survivors are asking whether they will ever see their redress. Two of the women concerned have died, sadly, without seeing a red cent, much less the support services promised under the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Law Reform Proposals (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has no interest in the truth.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to implement all recommendations contained within the Magdalene Commission report as prepared by Mr. Justice Quirke in May 2012 on the establishment of an ex gratia scheme and related matters for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries; the date on which legislation to provide enhanced...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 456. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to amend the Adoption Act 2010; and if these amendments will be published before the end of the current year. [52482/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 464. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the application for national lottery funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied)and when they may expect a decision. [52972/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (10 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who applied for a medical card renewal in July 2013 has not yet received a decision on the matter. [52471/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a scale of one to ten, how confident is Professor McHale about a growth projection of 2% for 2014?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a scale of one to ten, that is the range within which Professor McHale can indicate his endorsement in terms of a growth projection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a five?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The fiscal advisory council did not have any private conversations or consultations with the Minister for Finance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is at official rather than ministerial level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the purposes of clarity, the fiscal assessment report states: Extended projections out to the end of the decade indicate that the most difficult phase of the adjustment [cutbacks] should be broadly complete in 2015/2016. Modest increases in nominal expenditure should be feasible post-2016, while meeting all domestic and European fiscal rules.The council, as a body, is satisfied that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Professor McHale is happy to put that on the record at this point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: For the lay person that is an interesting and sophisticated analysis, and I have no doubt it is very valuable, but Professor McHale cannot say that modest increases in nominal expenditure should be feasible post-2016 because as he has elucidated in his report, there are far too many uncertainties and variables. Would that be a fair comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is all down to the growth figures.