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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the rise in au pair placement agencies and on line recruitment if he will consider legislating to ensure that au pairs receive the protections entitled to all workers. [24449/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 55. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the recent findings of the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland into the recruitment and employment of au pairs, the steps he will take to regulate this industry and recognise that au pairs should not be outside of the employment protections. [24448/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the local employment clause contained within the DIT Grangegorman project contract. [24605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all public procurement contracts which contain local employment or social clauses. [24605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries Fund (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 198. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date by which Mr. Justice Quirke will report back to him with recommendations regarding the Magdalene Laundries Fund and accompanying matters. [24601/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries Fund (22 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 199. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the elderly Magdalene Laundries surviving women living in the US seeking to meet with Mr. Justice Quirke who due to ill health and or financial restraints have been unable to travel and in such instances have been told that they can only be accommodated if they are in a position to travel to Dublin at their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (21 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the prolongation of maturities in some of Ireland's debts will affect Budget 2014; and if he will outline the likely period of additional scrutiny including visits by the Troika or EU Commission these extensions will bring. [23945/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (21 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the Ballyhea says No Group and examined their proposals for economic recovery. [23946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Issues (21 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if in view of the issues raised in the Prime Time Investigates programme on the Bethany Home on 13 May 2013 and on-going calls for justice for survivors of the Bethany Home, he will put in place a redress scheme for survivors. [23686/13]

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yet Mr. Callinan cannot account for the fact that there was a delay of several months between the time these two honourable people - and they are honourable people - made their disclosure and any action being taken on foot of it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Callinan's coming by this information happened to correspond with the matter being raised in the Dáil. It strikes me that there is a problem in this scenario, although I cannot put my finger on exactly what or why that is.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a clear clash between the Commissioner's account of events and the account of the two gardaí.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Explain to us what the standard procedure is where disclosure is made. The officer concerned approaches the confidential recipient. I ask Mr. Callinan to talk us through what happens then.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: What should have happened is that when the officers came forward and made the disclosure it found its way onto Mr. Callinan's desk.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When one goes to the confidential recipient, the next step is Mr. Callinan. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The two gardaí are very clear that they went to that confidential recipient.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know. For the purposes of this meeting, I am only interested in what happened in this case.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the case land on Mr. Callinan's desk? Did it not make it to his desk?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not talking about names. I do not intend to give names. I am saying that two individuals went through this particular route on this substantive issue, and the appropriate way of dealing with this is for the confidential recipient to report to Mr. Callinan, because he is in charge, and he then nominates a person from his panel. They chose this route in March 2012 and precisely nothing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, but Mr. Callinan has the substance of the allegations.