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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 any of the other witnesses know the date?

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: The person retired, which is fine, but there obviously was an issue and the lease had been entered into. Prior to the retirement of this individual - the principal individual - what discussion occurred on the matter?

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: Is the witness saying the health and safety issue only emerged after this person had retired? Was there knowledge of this problem while the person was still in employment?

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: Who could tell us that?

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: That is no harm, but I want to stick to this issue. I do not want to get the wrong end of the stick, so I ask for a "Yes" or "No" answer. Was the lease signed in the knowledge that there was a problem with health and safety compliance? Is that the witness's understanding?

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: So there was a complication. The lease was signed and the person concerned was in employment for a period afterwards. Can the witness tell me what, if any, action or discussion was had with that person? It is not a good day out for any agency to be signing leases with health and safety issues and it is a really bad day out for any agency to sign a lease knowing there is a health and safety...

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: The person who was responsible for the signing of the lease retired.

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: Sin é. End of story.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No we did not.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Brightness, always.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I commend Deputy Broughan on bringing forward such a lovely sounding Bill in the form of the Brighter Evenings Bill. It is almost poetic.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It certainly made me smile. I want to ask the Tánaiste about two things. The report on marriage equality from the Convention on the Constitution has been laid before the Oireachtas this week. Will the four month deadline for a response from Government be adhered to and when does the Tánaiste envisage a referendum being put to the people on that matter? I asked last week about a...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Tánaiste answer my questions in regard to Mr. Alan Dukes? I believe the former Senator, Mr. Aiden Eames, would have something to say on this matter also and perhaps Fianna Fáil could help us out there. Will the Tánaiste simply tell us whether the Nyberg inquiry had these tapes?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have that too.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This morning, on foot of parliamentary questions tabled by my colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, further revelations have emerged about the Anglo tape controversy. We know that in 2010 the Garda seized significant quantities of electronic and hard-copy documents and recordings in respect of 18 employees of the former Anglo Irish Bank whose telephone conversations were recorded. The Central...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The legislation to which the Tánaiste refers was actually passed by the House last night. Whatever about his claim of complexity in respect of this matter, for many people it is not complex at all. For those who are in the Shelbourne Hotel this morning to attend an auction - a fire sale - of properties, both residential and commercial, and who suffered the brunt of malpractice in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: EU Presidency Issues (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a report of her Department's activities as part of the recent Presidency of the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32602/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Reports (4 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will introduce to bring current child care regulations into line with the standards that all service-user parents, and Irish society generally, expect; the staffing levels, training and oversight requirements she proposes to apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32580/13]

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister might when replying to the amendment spell out in plain English the difference or similarities of the macro-economic forecast and the official forecast.