Results 17,601-17,620 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: But we cannot go near the ones at the top. Is that not correct?
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know full well.
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: No nurse is on €100,000.
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sometimes one is better off to see the replies when they are in tabular form but I got the gist of what the Minister of State had to say.
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, indeed. The purpose of the question is to explore the issue. I appreciate the necessity on the one hand for the kinds of cost savings the Minister of State envisages through procurement. That is reasonable and fair. We cannot allow a situation to continue, whereby, as the Minister of State put it, people were “screwing the State”. An additional concern was raised by...
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I noticed that Deputy Higgins was not present. The Minister of State is not going to comment on what is on the table, as he believes that commentary would be unhelpful. However, the Government has already put down a couple of markers, some of which I rehearsed with the Minister of State, in terms of legislating if no agreement is forthcoming and regarding the crucial issue of graduate...
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am struggling with the contradiction in the Minister of State's comments. I am sorry that, sadly, I did not hear him on the national broadcaster on Saturday.
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State is laying all of his emphasis on the new Croke Park agreement by agreement, but he is ignoring entirely the matter that I raised. The HSE and the Government acted unilaterally to deliver a pay cut to nurses and midwives. In Leinster House and elsewhere, the unions have stated that this matter is on the table in the negotiations. If it is not resolved and if the...
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Run down the wages across the service.
- Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform aside from pay savings and increased working hours, the additional reforms he is seeking from discussions with union leaders on extending the Croke Park Agreement. [3081/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State's comments on cutting one's cloth according to one's measure and all the rest would be fair if that was levied equally across the system. However, it is not and I will give the Minister of State an example. When a clinical director who is a consultant takes up a post, he or she gets an additional allowance of €46,000, which is more than the equivalent of two...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister of State does not recognise the huge gap in earnings between those categories of people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures taken by him to ensure pay equality and the reigning in of excessive pay and pensions in any extended Croke Park deal. [3345/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are two elements to my question. The first relates to the issue of pay equity in the new round of negotiations. The Minister of State is right in saying that this morning the Taoiseach committed himself to a preference for change by agreement. However, he has also said - he repeated it this morning - that in the absence of an agreement he is quite prepared to legislate for the...
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The McAleese report into the Magdalene laundries was supposed to have been published in the middle of last year. There has been much foot-dragging since then. Two weeks ago, the Taoiseach's colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, indicated that the report would be made public within a timeframe of four weeks. I know this matter was raised yesterday by Deputy...
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know all that.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: So when will the Government have it?
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: That delay is utterly deplorable.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am in contact with the Senator.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is doing that; he is receipt of one.