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Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government address the concerns of parents? Will the Taoiseach intervene to ensure this crisis is resolved?

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach intervene to ensure there is no industrial action on 2 October? Will he ask his colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, to desist from his threats and suggest to him that it might be better to adopt a more reasonable and constructive approach?

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The 300,000 public sector workers, about whom the Taoiseach spoke, would tell him that at the time he negotiated Croke Park and then Haddington Road, there was a very clear threat of coercion from Government. It was obvious and it made no secret about it. It came out with the big stick and shook it at public sector workers.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: None more so than, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am simply pointing out to the Taoiseach that which is blindingly obvious, that he is continuing in that vein. It is deeply irresponsible of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, in a situation such as this, where teachers are stressed and parents and their children are very concerned at the prospect of industrial action and strike, to stride in and rather than resolve the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (25 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 53. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39756/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Haddington Road Agreement Savings (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 113. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a yearly detailed breakdown of the sectoral measures and accompanying savings for the duration of Haddington Road Agreement applicable his Department and/or non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department. [39096/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 122. To ask the Taoiseach the staffing levels of the private offices and constituency offices of Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department; the salary of each; the same figures for this time in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39113/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 123. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the saving to the Exchequer if all special advisers to him and his Ministers of State were capped at the first point on the principal officer pay scale. [39114/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 141. To ask the Taoiseach the full year saving to the Exchequer if all State agency board members' fees, non-commercial State sponsored bodies and commercial semi-State companies, under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39285/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 142. To ask the Taoiseach the full year saving to the Exchequer if all non-commercial State sponsored bodies CEO salaries under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39286/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 143. To ask the Taoiseach the full year saving to the Exchequer if all commercial semi-State CEOs' pay under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Management Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full year's savings to the Exchequer, both gross and net figures, if all public sector salaries excluding hospital consultants were capped at €100,000. [39806/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 491. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to intercede on behalf of adoptive parents before the Section 63 Declarations of Eligibility and Suitability deadline of the 31 October 2013; if she will represent and voice individual parents cases to the respective international adoption agencies/representatives in an attempt to ensure the completion of these adoptions; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 551. To ask the Minister for Health the full year saving, gross and net, to the Exchequer if all hospital consultants' pay over €150,000 were reduced by certain amounts (details supplied). [39630/13]

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: l stayed because I thought Deputy Buttimer was going to say something interesting but now I am leaving.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Am I sharing my time?

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will give ten minutes to Deputy Martin Ferris.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a slight dispute among the Sinn Féin Deputies. That is very unusual.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin's position on the sale of State assets has been well voiced over months and years. Selling what is left of the family silver does not amount to a strategy and it is a decision of a Government that is all out of ideas. We know the sale of State assets is a policy being pursued by the Fine Gael and Labour Party Government and not one that is enforced by the troika, as the...