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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are parliamentarians asking for answers from the Minister and he has spectacularly failed to give them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: By all means, the Minister can make his own speech. I have no objection to that but I strongly object that he was asked straightforward questions which he has refused to answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is not a casual conversation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That makes a farce of this Question Time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It does not really matter at this juncture that the Minister's view remains that the Croke Park deal was fair, equitable, balanced and all of the vocabulary he has used. The workers did not act impulsively or rashly, they thought about this carefully and had done the maths. Whereas the Minister has said the core pay of 87% of workers was unaffected, the difficulty was that in respect of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister tell us how he got on with the troika?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is sending out mixed messages because on the one hand he says he favours a negotiated settlement and that he will not act unilaterally. If that is the case he is not legislating unilaterally, never mind for a 7% cut. That suggests that he is going to go back and re-engage with the unions and the workers. The point is well made in respect of the Estimates and the factoring in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out his implementation plan for the Labour Relations Commission's Croke Park 2 recommendations. [18001/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Then 21% covers the independents.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I am just looking at the television figures. Is it correct 75% went to RTE and TG4? If so, how does the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, account for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: For instance, what did TV3 get from the fund in 2012?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is this about genre, diversity and so forth?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Regarding the BAI’s code on fairness, objectivity and impartiality in news and current affairs, anyone who has made a complaint to the BAI about news coverage has described to me the process as being utterly tortuous, cumbersome and unreasonable. Another issue which has been raised by others, most particularly the National Womens Council of Ireland, is the absolute lack of women -...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Will the BAI produce an action plan in that regard? Will it set down milestones?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is the BAI positively disposed towards this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: This issue is not going to go away. I am zeroing in on women but there are other diversity issues which need to be addressed. However, as women are the majority of the population, this aspect of the matter needs to be straightened out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Would Shell pay into it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Dunning has given me some examples, but is it just that he does not have a list in front of him?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: How appropriate is it for commercial entities, albeit that they have secured a licence, to be paying money into this kind of fund for the purposes of further hydrocarbon exploration and development activities? Does Mr. Dunning not see that there is a bit of a clash there, to say the least? I am very surprised to see this type of an arrangement. These are potentially-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: When those explorations happen, what is the feedback to the companies which contribute? They obviously have the benefit of that.