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Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: In April this year the Minister published the Revised Estimates for the public service for 2013 and, as set out, they provide Members with a little more detail and information on each Department's budgetary allocation as noted in the expenditure report for 2013, published on budget day last December. It is worth remembering that Fine Gael and the Labour Party's programme for Government...

Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was going to make a reference to a beard but I will not. I want to raise two matters with the Minister, the first of which is the Bethany Home. Many Members are aware of what happened in Bethany Home, Rathgar, the suffering of women and children in the home and the existence of a mass grave in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross. The Taoiseach gave a commitment on 25 June that,...

Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister indicate whether it is now confirmed that the House will adjourn at midnight? There was an issue yesterday in respect of the staff of the Oireachtas. I do not see any provision for a proper break in the running of business to allow people to have a reasonable rest in the course of their working day. A sos for an hour after the conclusion of No. 4 would accommodate this....

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister cannot stand over stripping medical card cover from cancer patients, or can he? Is the Government now-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----so depraved and at such a level that it will even stand over that?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask about that.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed I do not. I want to raise the issue of medical cards. In budget 2013, the Government signalled that a further €750 million would be cut from the health budget for the year. The Minister may recall that where precisely those cuts were to be made was about as clear as mud. We were informed that medical card entitlements would be targeted, but we were not given the specifics. ...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked specifically about cancer patients. All of us are aware of the physical and mental trauma a cancer diagnosis brings to an individual and his or her family. Whatever the Minister may say about discretion or automatic provision, no rational or fair person would be of any other view but that a person suffering from cancer should be automatically entitled to medical card coverage. This...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister trots out figures and gives the impression that the Government is one of largesse and generosity. He tells us repeatedly that it is a government that wants to provide full health care for all. Yet in this specific instance and in these specific cases, it demonstrates a mean-spiritedness with regard to people who are very ill. Anybody who suffers from cancer and is asked to...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is happening against a backdrop of many people falling out of the private health care system, for reasons with which we are all too familiar. The Minister has not given me an answer in explanation for this mean-spirited and despicable decision because, really, he cannot. Is that not the truth?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (10 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that he intends to ratify International Labour Organisation convention 189 on domestic workers; and the timescale for its ratification. [33514/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 52. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the time scale for completion of the Consumer and Competition Bill. [33517/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 207. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of convicted persons imprisoned for six months, for five months, for four months, for three months, for two months and for one month in 2012; if he will further provide a breakdown of the categories of crime these persons were imprisoned for and a gender breakdown of same. [33680/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which she will publish new guidelines to reform the rules regarding the habitual residency condition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33252/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (9 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the Budget 2013 cuts to respite carers' grant. [33253/13]

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: With what level of response?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do the figures take account of the people who have emigrated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Department distinguish where the people are employed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I mean in which jurisdiction.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are the ones who are employed at home.