Results 15,621-15,640 of 21,237 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: How long has Mr. Bray being working in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, OSi?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was his predecessor an OSi man?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is it the trend that the chief executive officer is recruited from within the OSi?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Bray spoke earlier about the OSi contracting in a commercial marketing expert. Was this an unusual move for the organisation or is there a pattern of that also?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Would those contracts, typically, have been salaried with a performance-related element?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was that contract type standard practice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that base salary plus performance-related payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: How did the OSi recruit this marketing expert?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: When was this person recruited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: What was the involvement of the parent Department in this process? Did the board require clearance from it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: This was not a State appointment. This person was coming in on a very different contractual basis from the 200 odd public servants in the organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have now established that the parent Department was not involved in any part of the recruitment process. Is that good? For the record, I believe the OSi is a good operation. However, when it decided to bring in outside expertise and strike a contractual deal but excluded the parent Department, it does not wash with me to claim there is a commercial arm to the organisation’s...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Budget 2014 is deeply dishonest. It is littered with broken promises. The programme for Government promised not to cut social welfare rates. The Labour Party claims protecting social welfare is one of its main achievements and is one of its main reasons for being in government. This week this promise has been broken again. Hiding behind the deplorable record of Fianna Fáil really is...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: He accuses them, stating quite openly in his view the young people in Tallaght are too lazy to go out and work. Is it now official Labour Party policy to force young people to emigrate? Is it now official Labour Party policy to make young people pay for the recession? Is it official Labour Party policy to blame young people for being unemployed?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has been cut.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To get young people into work one must create real decent jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Cutting the safety net for young people and whipping the rug from under them does not get them back into employment. I beg to differ with Deputy Maloney and the Tánaiste. I do not believe young jobless people-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----spend hours in front of flat screen televisions in Tallaght or anywhere else. The Tánaiste spoke about activation measures. A total of 54,000 young people are officially out of work, which is 18,000 more than when the Government took office. The official youth unemployment rate is 30% and many are not captured in this figure.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Budget 2014 promises a paltry 4,500 additional places for these young people. Last year the Government promised a paltry 10,000 places and only delivered 5,000. This is the record in terms of activation for the young, so the Tánaiste should not come in here and spoof.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: When Fianna Fáil cut jobseeker's allowance in 2009 it also claimed it would have training interventions but they did not materialise. The Labour Party was quick to point it out then, but the same is true today. People need jobs and proper labour activation but the Government is asleep at the wheel. It is failing our young people, and cutting their welfare, the only modest support for...