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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Social Media Issues (31 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps to be taken to regulate the use of social media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4679/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (30 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts he has made to promote other parts of the island during Derry’s term as city of culture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4506/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Parliamentary Questions (30 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Finance when a reply will issue to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 17 October 2012. [4779/13]

Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week I raised the matter of the interdepartmental report on the Magdalene laundries with the Taoiseach but he did not have any specifics for the date of the receipt of the report or its publication. Will he confirm now that this report will go to Cabinet on 5 February? Will he inform us whether his colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, has received any part...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach expecting it to come to the Cabinet on Tuesday?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe her interdepartmental group on the provision of Scandinavian childcare system has met since established; when it is likely to report to her; if she will publish the report; if she will abide by her commitment last year, when debating the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012 which reduced the cut off age for qualifying for one parent...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2013 (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department completed a poverty impact assessment of the effects of the recent budget on those dependent on social welfare; and if she intends to equality proof her social welfare cuts. [4075/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Legislation (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to publish the draft heads of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill. [3776/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will begin holding meetings with the various industry stakeholders about the review of the Government form of construction contracts; the industry stakeholders that he proposes to invite to these meetings; the expected timeframe for the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3825/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information on the number of Syrian nationals, if any, that were refused leave to land here in 2012 in view of the recent comments by the High Commissioner for Refugee, Mr António Guterres, in Dublin, to keep EU borders open to those fleeing violence in Syria [3834/13]

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I refer to the Construction Contracts Bill. Members have been waiting for this legislation for quite some time. They are acquainted with the fact that subcontractors across the State are under considerable pressure and are awaiting this legislation. I understand there are Government amendments to go before the Cabinet. Can the Tánaiste indicate whether these amendments have gone...

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: To clarify, the Bill is indeed scheduled to go before the committee in February. However, the difficulty is this has not been confirmed. Members await Government amendments that I understand must go before the Cabinet. As there is an urgency to this matter, can the Tánaiste state whether the amendments have gone to the Cabinet, yes or no? If so, I assume the February deadline will be...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: They will emigrate and go where they are paid properly.

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It can be reasonably stated the closing date has passed and had to be extended because the young graduate nurses and midwives, who along with their union leaders briefed Members of the Oireachtas yesterday, made it absolutely clear they will boycott this scam. It is not a scheme; it is a scam. This was imposed without consultation. For all the Tánaiste's talk of the necessity for...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Tánaiste, who is the leader of the Labour Party, see that this scam is ended? Will he tell us about the status of this issue in respect of the Croke Park talks? We were told, as the previous speaker indicated, that this matter is on the table and that it will prove to be a game changer or game breaker for the unions and, crucially, for the young graduate nurses.

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The graduate nurses were always going to be afforded an opportunity in the system, for the very simple reason that already our health services and hospitals are understaffed and under pressure. The Tánaiste knows this. The difference the Government has made here is that it has cut their entry rate by 20%. The real irony in all of this is that it is not actually about cost savings...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We all know this is much more cost effective. However, people would be employed at the proper and full rate. So Members understand, the graduate nurses and midwives are people who have families Many of them have children. They have rent and mortgages to pay like everybody else. They are telling us very clearly that they cannot and will not carry out these duties at yellow pack rates. It...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Twenty per cent.

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear from the contributions that we are united as one voice across the House in saying bullying is unacceptable behaviour whether it is on the basis of a person's gender, skin colour, sexual orientation, height, hair colour, spectacles or freckles or, in other words, all the various guises and excuses used to target an individual or child and systematically and deliberately to break...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (23 Jan 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commitment is as follows: "We will review the grading structures of the Civil Service and the Public Service and reduce the number of management grades." That is the way to go. Earlier, we debated the issues of pay and pay equity in the system. Part and parcel of delivering that, if the Government is serious about delivery, will be revisiting the grading...