Results 17,281-17,300 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: So the Secretary General does not understand there is a Government commitment to the ending of direct provision as the system operated by the State?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I have not disputed that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Can I make a suggestion? The commitment in the programme for Government is very clear. The new legislation is absolutely necessary and required and, I hope, will be fit for purpose. All things being equal, that should reduce the waiting time for applicants, all of which would be tremendously welcome. That point has been well made. Given that the commitment is to move away from direct...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Will Mr. Purcell outline what, if any, measures have been taken to set the scene for the wind-down of direct provision? He will be aware that the Government made a commitment to do this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Given that Ms Creedon and Mr. Purcell accept everything in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, what is the basis for the case being taken?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I shall outline the position that we find ourselves in. Please also excuse my sniffles. I have read the chapter and have a number of great concerns about the administration of the entire project. One would assume, for example, that any State agency wishing to acquire a new premises, involving substantial work and remodelling and a change of use, would have a keen eye for the planning...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Despite the fact the Department of Justice and Equality is embarking on a legal case and presumably there has been an institutional eye cast over the detail and the turn of events.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: When was it decided to take legal action?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I am simply trying to establish-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Were proceedings issued yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that, as do all other members of the committee. This is now March 2013 and there is clearly an issue for which Ms Creedon seeks a remedy through the courts, which is as it should be. We all place the interest of the taxpayer at the centre. There is also an issue for the committee, not just in terms of moneys expended or forgone in any particular arrangement but also in terms...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Ms Creedon. When will court proceedings conclude?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I presume Ms Creedon can give a commitment that on their conclusion, she will return here to answer all the committee's questions in some detail.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to ask about the new Croke Park deal and the Government's proposed legislation arising from that. We all know the deal unfairly and deliberately targets front-line workers and, yesterday, representatives of An Garda Síochána picketed outside the Oireachtas. I hope the Minister knows that public sector workers, like everybody else, have mortgages to pay and children to feed...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I asked specific questions on proposed legislation. Will there be new FEMPI legislation and will there be additional legislation dealing with the terms and conditions of public sector workers? I am not asking the Minister to comment on the ballot.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government is very good at compounding the problem.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should answer my question.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: When the household charge was levied - the €100 flat charge on people's homes - more than 1,300 ghost estates which were not completed were exempt from the charge. What the Minister is asking the Dáil to accept – apart from setting aside the report which identifies 1,100 incomplete estates – is that in less than a year the number of unfinished estates has more than...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The disappointed people will be not just those living in ghost estates – the Minister chose to discriminate between households even in those developments he argues ought to be exempt – but will be broader than that. The Government has applied a broad brush in levying the tax. It is the view of the Government that even people on social welfare and small incomes will be forced...