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Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has the Taoiseach told Richie that?

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should sing that song to him.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will abstain on the payment of a €843,000 salary.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is the Taoiseach's answer to the nurses.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish the Taoiseach and his terrible twin in the Labour Party a happy birthday. Since yesterday the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, sought to ram Estimates for his Department through the committee. The Taoiseach has stated correctly the Estimates are apportioned Department by Department. Hardwired into each of them are the Croke Park agreement cuts....

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is on a salary – sorry, a remuneration package – of €843,000. That is €70,000 per month or over €16,000 per week.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Richie takes home in a fortnight what an average nurse earns in an entire year. How does the Taoiseach look public and civil servants in the eye, despite telling us that many of them are struggling just to get by? How does he look them in the eye when his approach is so heavy-handed with them? He demands that nurses, gardaí and emergency personnel take cuts to their wages and accept a...

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I feel as if I have entered some kind of twilight zone in the Chamber. Those on the Government benches are lauding the Croke Park deal. Apparently, it was fair, progressive and equitable. The message seems to be coming from the Government that anyone with an ounce of wit would have understood that it was so. When workers came to vote, they had considered the matter very carefully. It is...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Taoiseach has asked the Labour Relations Commission to engage again with the trade unions a week after Croke Park II was decisively rejected by workers. At the same time, his Government is moving forward Estimates which include these pay cuts for front-line workers as a done deal. For this new process to have any chance of success there must be a real policy shift in the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will this be an inclusive negotiation? Will all parties be invited back to the table? I have in mind in particular the gardaí, the nurses, the emergency personnel and other front-line workers, some of whom were excluded from the process towards the end of the negotiation of the Croke Park II deal.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked the Taoiseach a series of questions. He did not answer any of them, with the exception of one. He is making it clear that Croke Park II is still on the table, and I can only take from his answers that he has asked the LRC to engage with unions and workers on that basis. Obviously, the Taoiseach hopes there can be some face-saving or tweaking of this agreement. I would not share...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has asked the LRC to talk to the unions to see if there is room for a negotiation on the outcome of the agreement. What exactly does that mean? Is he asking it to test the ground with the unions to see whether they can run the vote again? Is that the Taoiseach's thinking? Given that he is hell-bent on finding this €300 million, why does the Taoiseach put himself in a...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Says the Taoiseach with the 14% unemployment rate. Is he joking?

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is re-running Croke Park II.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
(23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is trying it on in respect of this matter. This is an attempt to strong-arm public service and Civil Service workers and it amounts to giving them the two fingers and turning a deaf ear to their wishes. It comes in the aftermath of all of the threats and bullying to which the Minister subjected them and their representative unions in recent months. I will also not participate...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
(23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is all right, Minister.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
(23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I also object to the taking of this Estimate. The Minister was very prominent in the media, proclaiming to the nation that he was about to run out of money at the end of the year. He has identified a €300 million shortfall in the budget - I know he anticipated that from Croke Park II. As has been said workers were invited to ballot on that matter and they have decisively rejected...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
(23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is being disingenuous when he says we are just dealing with those elements that affect his Department. Of course we are, but this procedure will be mirrored across all other Oireachtas committees. The total will amount to €300 million as envisaged under Croke Park II - that is what he has accounted for in this Estimate. What is the message to public and civil servants,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the impact of the recent Industrial Relations Act on the wages of low paid workers; and the way his Department monitors the wages of highest paid workers to ensure cost competitiveness. [18617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (23 Apr 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: 133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received a copy of the Labour Court Review of ten existing JLC; and if he will outline when he will be able to form a view of its recommendations. [18616/13]

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