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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When Fine Gael was in opposition, it and the Labour Party were quite animated about the issue of cronyism and corruption as it pertained to Fianna Fáil and State boards. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport went so far as to publish a Bill proposing publication of the qualifications of each candidate nominated for a role on a State board, which was not a bad proposition. Of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They relate clearly to the question that has been asked. I am giving the Taoiseach examples of the shortfall in the system. He spoke about the appointments he has made in respect of the NESC, but I have a broader question for him as Head of Government. What role does he have or what actions will he take to ensure that Departments and Ministers in his Government make full use of the new...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To clarify, I asked the Taoiseach about any pre-budget submissions that might have been made. Clearly, I do not simply want the number of submissions that were made. What would be interesting, useful and essential to have on the public record would be the nature of those submissions and what exactly they asked for. It is reasonable that the Government would meet with representatives of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was an unusually short response.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the initiative taken since this matter was last raised in the Dáil to publish the minutes of meetings of the clearing house group on the website of the Department of the Taoiseach. The minutes are interesting and reveal how the industry lobbied to have IFSC-based international insurers excluded from the Quinn insurance levy. As we know, a 2% levy was imposed on all non-life...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The minutes also reveal the extent of the industry's access to senior officials in the Departments of the Taoiseach and Finance, the Central Bank and the industry's regulator. The minutes of the meeting of 17 January 2013 are not yet available online. However, the minutes of the previous meeting, on 22 November, indicate that a number of-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am giving a flavour of what is contained therein.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: A number of pre-budget submissions were received from the IFSC working group. Will the Taoiseach indicate precisely how many of these pre-budget submissions were received and elaborate on their main focus? With regard to the strategy the Taoiseach launched for the IFSC in July 2011, a commitment was given at the time to create 10,000 new jobs. How many of these new jobs have materialised...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Given that the Taoiseach refers to it so often, I would have expected him to do his homework and familiarise himself with the significant difference between the system of rating in the North and the tax on the family home he is proposing. For instance in the North, citizens do not pay for their bin collection. There is no suggestion of people paying for domestic water. People have...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should do his homework.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was not casting aspersions on her but on the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was casting aspersions on the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, Sinn Féin published legislation providing for the abolition of the family home tax.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This tax is lifted straight out of Fianna Fáil's four-year plan. It is the latest blow that this Government has delivered to hard-pressed families. One in four mortgage holders are in distress, yet he asks the same families to pay this unfair tax. It takes no account of ability to pay, negative equity, mortgages in arrears, or indeed the thousands of euro that many have already paid...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Taoiseach accept that the Government has made a mess of this issue? Does he accept that it is fundamentally unfair for families living in unfinished ghost estates to be hit with this tax? Can he indicate whether the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, is revisiting the issue of ghost estates and the payment of this tax? Does he accept...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Sector Remuneration (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at €100,000. [15970/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Numbers (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will guarantee that the core clerical officers who will now need to be redeployed within or from Revenue, following the recent Conciliation and Arbitration Board decision to allow Revenue outsource to the private sector a contract for call centre work to the value of €4.9 million, will not be required to travel more than 45km from their homes when...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Numbers (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public sector workers that will need to be redeployed within or from Revenue following the recent Conciliation and Arbitration Board decision to allow Revenue outsource to the private sector a contract for call centre work to the value of €4.9 million; if the workers will be redeployed within Revenue; if he will provide a breakdown of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Remuneration (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at €100,000. [15967/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (26 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of primary and secondary school teachers with the exclusion of headmistresses that are women. [14844/13]