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Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that Mr. Halappanavar and his legal representative expected to have a copy of the report last week and I cannot understand why that did not happen. It has been leaked subsequently and I can only guess at the motivation of those who leaked the report; none of us here can conclude on that. However, we know that the distress the family is experiencing is only one episode in...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Staff in the HSE have it and people in the media have it. The person who above all should have it as a matter of urgency is Praveen Halappanavar. When the Minister takes to his feet I hope he will give reassurance to women, in particular, who are looking at the health system and the antics of the HSE and wondering what on earth is going on and, more important, to Praveen Halappanavar. The...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is why Praveen should have it.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister will agree the leaking of the draft report of the inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar before her husband Praveen had sight of it was an act of gross insensitivity to her family. It seems from what we read in the press that the report vindicates what Praveen has been saying all along. It seems to indicate that little attention was paid to the risk of infection and that...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I stand by that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Planning (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive Regional plans will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7455/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health when the full and completed Walsh Report into the practice of symphysiotomy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7453/13]

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is obvious, but I will say it nevertheless, that no tears were shed in this country at the demise of Anglo Irish Bank.

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The public viewed it as a toxic institution and not unreasonably placed a substantial portion of the blame for our economic crisis at its door. That said, however, I am mindful of the hundreds of workers who learned in the small hours of the morning that their jobs were gone and their contracts had been torn up. That is no way to treat any set of employees, particularly those who are...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (13 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in her plans to place Children First on a statutory footing. [7309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Insurance Coverage (13 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the negotiations (details supplied) with the Irish Insurance Federation on the viability of a State insurance system for persons who are unable to obtain home related insurance from the private insurance market. [7628/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Construction Contracts Committee (13 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of current members of the Government Construction Contracts Committee, along with their titles; the Departments they represent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7701/13]

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Caoláin and McLellan.

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: "We all kind of had to stick together in case we got a beating. We all stuck together. Another died and the girl that ran away, she got a beating. We never saw her again. She was the same age as ourselves. She wanted to get out and they beat her. We used to hear her screaming but we did not know where to go, like, because when you are in the dormitory at night you were locked in. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Equality Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has taken at Departmental level to ensure expenditure is managed with due consideration for matters of equality in the context of Ministers working within existing equality legislation. [6706/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm a date on which construction will begin on a permanent school building (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [6683/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Erection of Memorial Plaque (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his intention to proceed with a plan to build a memorial to the victims of child abuse in the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin. [6684/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to amend the rules to ensure that no senior public servant, including political appointees or Minister can work in the private sector in any area involving a potential conflict of interest with their former area of public employment, until at least two years have elapsed after...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he has taken at departmental level to that ensure expenditure is managed with due consideration for matters of equality in the context of Ministers working within existing equality legislation. [6726/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Tenders (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of complaints submitted about the new eTenders website since it went live on the 12 November 2012; if he will provide a breakdown of these complaints by sector and by issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6741/13]