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- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why was the figure revised downwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That explains it. In 2011 and 2012 there was a net job creation figure of 3,346 jobs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: With respect, I would not consider that to be the best result from the money invested. The figures are very alarming, even if we take into account the challenging domestic and international environment. I assume that the chief executive officer is as underwhelmed by these figures as I am. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Elated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That makes sense.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: How many jobs were created as a result of that initiative? My sole objective is to discover how many jobs were created. What was the win worth in terms of the number of jobs created?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask Mr. Ryan to do the maths for me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: While he does that, we appreciate and are conscious of the trauma endured in the construction industry walking off the cliff. I am worried that Enterprise Ireland is elated at the creation of 3,346 net jobs over those two years, not least when we take into account the substantial subvention from the State. Is it €304 million?
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: When will the report of Professor John Higgins on the establishment of hospital groups be published? It has caused considerable disquiet in the south east, in particular. Has it been given to the Government? When might it be published and when will we have a chance to debate it? When will the promised consolidated domestic violence legislation be brought before the House?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The difficulty is that very many people who rely on Operation Fiacla believe it is gan fiacla because the gardaí are not sufficiently resourced. The Minister knows this because she represents an urban constituency not a million miles away from my own. She knows that the most common and sometimes the only complaint citizens have regarding the gardaí is the lengthy response time....
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is an entirely new service post-Patten. Could the Minister answer my question?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no doubt that the closure of almost 100 Garda stations today represents a serious blow to rural Ireland in particular but also to some urban communities. These are the very communities which have already suffered under the cuts regime of this and the previous Government. We have seen in recent weeks and months a spate of burglaries targeting vulnerable and elderly people. For many...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is the infamous four-year plan which Fianna Fáil negotiated with the troika. At the time Fianna Fáil agreed with the troika to cut Garda numbers from 14,500 to 13,500 in 2011 and to 13,000 by 2014, a total drop of 10%.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, now Fianna Fáil grandstands on the issue when the Government is simply implementing its predecessor's policy. They have form in this regard, Minister-----
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: At the 2010 Garda Representative Association conference, its president, Mr. Michael O'Boyce, criticised the reduction in Garda numbers and the Fianna Fáil justice spokesman, Deputy Niall Collins, called for him to be removed from the force by the then Commissioner.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Niall Collins now comes to the Dáil to oppose the very cuts Fianna Fáil designed.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, accept that the closure of Garda stations is a blow to the communities I have described? What assurances can she offer today to these communities as to their safety? What measures are in place not just to reassure people in rural Ireland and certain urban communities but to ensure they have a full and adequate Garda service?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: We can all agree on the need for more effective policing. I do not differ with the Minister on that. Her commentary on the North would require too long an explanation.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: For those who care to listen and who are clearly ignorant on the matter, the experience of policing in the North and in the South has been entirely different.