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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: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte romhaibh uilig. The witnesses are welcome. I was struck by something in Mr. O’Brien’s opening statement. The HSE does not have a good track record in terms of staying within budget. In the Supplementary Estimate he outlined amounts of €148 million in 2011 and €360 million in 2012. I was curious to hear...

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 surplus, beyond the Supplementary Estimate.

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: We need to tease out what that means in funding terms because, technically, a surplus was returned but the HSE was only in a position to return a surplus having been in receipt of a Supplementary Estimate.

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: Would it be fair to say that we have an ongoing issue in respect of the adequacy of the funding afforded to the HSE?

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: I understand that, but I refer to the initial Vote of funds to the HSE. I am not doing this to get into a finger-pointing exercise or a blame game, this is the responsibility of the Oireachtas – of the Government in the first instance – to vote the moneys. We have fallen well short in 2011 to the tune of €148 million and then in 2012 to the tune of €360 million....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (25 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 42. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in the context of the Decade of Commemorations, his plans to restore Richmond Barracks; and if he will implement the recommendations in the proposal submitted to his office by Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19366/13]

Estimates for Public Services 2013 (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and then to be cheer-led by his colleagues who come in and slavishly back whatever crackpot notion he comes up with. The Minister made reference to the private sector. It is absolutely laughable that he or any member of this Government would point to the private sector because they would not last a wet week in that private sector.

Estimates for Public Services 2013 (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you. That is the rationale for opposing these Revised Estimates. It is not complicated. All of the Minister's spiel about shared services and paying people is a simple ruse, a Trojan horse even, to sneak in Croke Park II even though the workers have rejected it.

Estimates for Public Services 2013 (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.

Estimates for Public Services 2013 (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The argument for reform within the public sector is unanswerable. I support that. While the shared services initiative is not the be-all and end-all, the rolling-out of this concept makes sense. I support it because it is efficient. The problem with this Estimate will recur as each of the Estimates goes through the relevant committee. The Minister has conceded that the Croke Park cuts...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure nobody wants to engage in wild speculation on the X legislation or the protection of maternal life Bill, but the turn of events in recent days has been most unedifying.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that, a Cheann Comhairle. Other than telling us that the anticipated heads of the Bill did not materialise, can the Taoiseach give us more concrete information on the timing of the legislation? We are all anxious to see it, approach it in a constructive manner to get the law right and get through the process. Is there any truth in the speculation that the House may sit for an...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: During the course of the week I asked the Taoiseach and a number of his colleagues several times whether he accepts and respects the outcome of the ballot of workers in respect of Croke Park II. I never got a clear answer. He intimated that he was reflecting. He has now requested the Labour Relations Commission to reopen an engagement with unions and their workers. The manner in which the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am well aware that not only did Fianna Fáil set this remuneration package of €16,000 per week but also that the former Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mr. Joe Walsh, is chairman of the remuneration committee of the bank in question.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am fully conversant with the facts. The Taoiseach spoke about the need for clarity. In this episode there is absolute clarity: the outrageous remuneration package of a banker is not to be touched. The Minister for Finance, rather than register a protest in this regard, will abstain and allow this obscenity to go through on the nod. At the same time, the Government is eye-balling nurses,...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may claim and may have been brainwashed by his colleagues into believing 87% of public and civil servants are untouched by the deal.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When workers did the sums in respect of their households and families, they took a different view.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Taoiseach explain to public and civil servants such as clerical officers why the Government is being so aggressive with them and so gentle with Richie Boucher? I ask the Taoiseach to answer that straightforward question.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The names are in the public domain.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Really.