Results 16,961-16,980 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Adviser Pay (23 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 147. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular format a list of all his special advisers' pay and that of his Minister of State, to include each salary and name of employee above principal officer standard scale salary rate; and if he will supply the total pay bill for all his special advisors for 2012. [18356/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total moneys paid to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council since it was set up in 2011; and if he will assess the work of the council to date. [18249/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (23 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments planned for upgrading the deteriorating road surface along Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at two sections, the first between Darling Estate and the Hole in the Wall pub and the second between Nephin Road and Villa Park. [18248/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (23 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: 674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments planned for upgrading the deteriorating road surface along Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at two sections, the first between Darling Estate and the Hole in the Wall pub and the second between Nephin Road and Villa Park. [18248/13]
- Other Questions: Estimates for Public Services (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the troika instruct the Minister, or did he agree, to find the €300 million from the public sector payroll?
- Other Questions: Estimates for Public Services (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was that reiterated during the Minister's recent telephone call?
- Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is very gallant of Deputy Durkan.
- Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have heard the Minister called lots of things but never Hercules. That is great. The Minister is fixated on the need to find €300 million within the public sector payroll. Has the troika instructed him that it must be found there, or is it the case with many policy areas, including the sale of State assets which we just discussed, that the targets are set and the troika is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: How much will the State get?
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Training (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who would provide the coaching?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the State assets that he intends to dispose of in 2013. [18002/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I like to believe that when the Minister came to office - this may be wishful thinking on my part, but perhaps he will indulge me - he would never have imagined himself as being responsible for butchering the public service, for protecting the people at the top of that service in a very calculated and deliberate way or for selling off State assets. I am sure he will concede that Bord...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is part of their value. The Minister indicated that the sale transaction will be formally launched in a couple of weeks and that it will be completed by the end of the year. Will he inform the House of the extent to which he has engaged in discussions with the unions which represent the employees of BGE? The Minister did not refer to Coillte. Is this an indication that the sale of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So that to which the Minister referred was his plan all along.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is engaging in a degree of historical revisionism in the context of energy prices within the State. Those prices shot up as a result of the adoption of a European Union directive that insisted upon deregulation of the market. The Minister is correct: those prices were increased to artificially high levels and then maintained in order to make what is a very small market alluring...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The changes to which were driven by EU law.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are other places he can find the €300 million.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should come clean and tell us what he is proposing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has answered nothing
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order, I respect the fact that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle must run an orderly shop and that questions must be time limited but it is disgraceful on such a critical issue that the Minister can come in and talk down the clock and not answer parliamentary questions. This is not an informal arrangement.