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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (12 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost to the Exchequer for G4S service contract for the new criminal courts building; the services provided by G4S under the terms of the contract; the term of the contract; if the contract payments are linked to the Consumer Price Index; and if so, the way that this is applied. [12795/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 582 of Tuesday 19 January 2013, if the eight persons purporting to be Syrian nationals provided documentation to support this claim to Immigration Officers and if this documentation was deemed inauthentic; if any of the eight persons concerned applied for asylum in another EU member state prior to arriving...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (12 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an appeal to the immigration bureau in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and when a decision will be decided. [12723/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (12 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in a tabular form the number of child minders advisory officers posts that she has withdrawn here by 28 February 2013 broken down by city and county; and the measures she will take to provide the necessary training and supports lost to providers of child minding services. [12796/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (12 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in a tabular form the cuts she has imposed to the Empowerment Plus child protection services since she took office in 2011; and the areas affected; and the measures she has taken to support or replace the lost services for vulnerable at risk children. [12797/13]

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Having rushed the property tax legislation through the Dáil, the Government is now minded to do the same in respect of Irish Water, metering, water charges and the potential privatisation of water.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Allowing just two hours for the debate is unacceptable. Some 47 amendments have been tabled for discussion. The Government is clearly minded to push the legislation through irrespective of the debate. I do not understand why it believes that there could be a thorough debate in such a limited time. We object strongly to the use of the guillotine, another attempt by the Government to push...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question was whether the Tánaiste is defending the deduction of this tax from social welfare payments.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it okay to take the tax from people's bank accounts?

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was my question.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: As and from Monday, letters from the Revenue Commissioners will land in 1.6 million households across the State demanding payment of a tax on their family home. This tax takes no account of ability to pay, those in negative equity, those who paid massive stamp duty or the 180,000 families currently in mortgage distress. Let us acknowledge it is a tax championed and proposed by Fianna...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked the Tánaiste specifically about the measures that will be pursued in the event of people not paying the tax. On the issue of tax compliance and the sniggers from his backbenchers and some of his Front Bench-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The issue is a vast number of people simply cannot afford this tax, not that they are wishing not to be tax compliant. The Tánaiste should not try to lay this on the Revenue Commissioners. The legislation rushed through this House by the Labour Party and Fine Gael will allow this family tax to be taken from social welfare payments, wages and people's bank and credit union accounts. It...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Never mind Sinn Féin. What about the citizens?

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have asked two questions about the Government's legislation.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Tánaiste defend them?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Guidance Counsellors (7 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the publication of the New National Guidelines on mental health and suicide prevention in post primary schools, which are designed to provide an enhanced framework to dissimilate information for schools and agencies supporting schools in mental health promotion and suicide prevention, the decision to withdraw the ex-quota allocation...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Cuirfidh Mr. Justice Quirke redress scheme do na Magdalen laundries os comhair an Rialtais agus os comhair na Dála i gceann cúpla mí. Cén fáth nach bhfuil Summerhill ar liosta na hinstitiúidí atá á scrúdú ag Mr. Justice Quirke? Cén fáth nach bhfuil aon fhreagra faighte againn go fóill i dtaobh an Bethany Home?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Tá Stanhope Street ar an liosta. Cén fáth nach bhfuil Summerhill?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (6 Mar 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that the legislation establishing the Human Rights and Equality Commission will make it accountable directly to the Oireachtas rather than his Department in order to ensure that is compliant with the Paris Principles. [11564/13]