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- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not appreciate the tone of the Taoiseach's response. He knows as well as I do the urgency in bringing forward the heads of a Bill. The fact that it will not be finished legislation is all the more reason for the Oireachtas to see it and for it to proceed to committee without delay so that a full and frank debate can proceed. I have a worry, which I know is shared by others, that what...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand fully that the legislation, when it comes before the House-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----will simply-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----legislate that which is already lawful.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are 21 years on and further delays cannot be justified in any way. Over the past week there has been a considerable amount of intemperate and inaccurate rhetoric from the Taoiseach's own benches.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I hope the Taoiseach has faced that down and that we will see the heads of a Bill this evening. I ask him to make it clear that he intends to bring the legislation through the Houses of the Oireachtas and onto the Statute Book by the end of July.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It ill-behoves the Taoiseach to delay the legislation. We have waited 20 years for it.
- Other Questions: Irish Language (25 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update as to the progress that has been made in relation to the commitment in the 20 year strategy to provide a new definition for the Gaeltacht based on linguistic criteria. [19283/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: "Transition" was Mr. O'Brien's word, not mine. The agreement the HSE has with them was signed eight months ago. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I know; I am just checking the date, which was eight months ago. We are in a transitional phase and there has been gentle coaxing but no disciplinary action.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine, but my point is that eight months after an agreement was signed, which states clearly the 14 working day rule, the HSE is still not at that point by some margin. There has been no official sanction in that respect. I want to mark for Mr. O'Brien the clear contrast about which I am certain in the treatment of this issue for this set of workers and other workers within the HSE...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I am referring not so much to the content of the report or the medical evidence that may emerge over time and that which has emerged but to the initial phases. I understood from Mr. Halappanavar that one of his primary worries at the outset stemmed from the fact that he had made contact with the HSE. His wife had died and had been brought back home to be buried. He had heard nothing from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Will the HSE, as an institution and as a body, learn lessons from it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: How much is outstanding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. McDonald have a more up-to-date figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: The delegation says the time taken by consultants to sign off on the forms has reduced from 62 days to 44 days. The target is 20 days. Can the delegates not be more clear on the current position? Is it 40 days?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Clearly, it is variable but the HSE must determine an average from the statistics.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Let us not go over how this was allowed to happen. This matter has been raised at this committee and elsewhere. It is absolutely scandalous that there is €61 million in revenue outstanding because medical consultants have not signed off on the forms. This is part of their job; it is not a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That might be the case. If I am not mistaken, I understood from the HSE that it had identified tardiness on the part of medical consultants as a problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: It is a problem.