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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. MacSharry probably would have sat before a committee such as this and told it that if one wanted the best, one had to pay the bucks. We know where that led us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: More is the pity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Were their salaries at the time merited?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: In Mr. MacSharry's mind, therefore, it was merited.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Up to 12% of Permanent TSB employees earn in excess of €100,000. I assume Mr. MacSharry believes this is the rate that has to be paid. Does he see how extraordinary this is for anyone looking in at a bailed out institution which is not enthusiastic about dealing with the issue of write-downs to give relief to the general public? In my mind, the institution does this in a delusional...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The survivors of the Magdalene laundries were excluded from institutional redress schemes and have not received an apology from the State or a recognition of the abuse visited on them. When will the House have sight of the interdepartmental report on the Magdalene laundries? Will the Taoiseach assure Deputies that time will be provided for the Dáil to debate the report early in the new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in precise terms how he will honour the commitment given (details supplied) in the wake of the Budget to restore the core community services of home help, hours and home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57006/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (19 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health the further action he will now take in response to the Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in A,B & C vs Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57007/12]

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the pupil-teacher ratio?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Corporal Punishment (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland's failure to ban corporal punishment has resulted in the State being in violation of Article 17 of the Revised European Social Charter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56780/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Detention Centres (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the Oberstown, County Dublin, facility will be fully operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56779/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Sector Pay (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56386/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Grades (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for Government. [56383/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a comprehensive list of the shared services initiatives delivered by his Department since it was set up and the corresponding monetary savings to the Exchequer associated with each of the initiatives listed for 2012 and projected saving for 2013. [56481/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his announcement in September 2012 of his intention to set up a new National Procurement Office within his Department, the date by which this new office will be fully operational; the targeted savings for 2013 arising from the new office noting that a recent report of the Central Procurement Function estimated that implementation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements if he will confirm if both the travel and accommodation allowance and the public representation allowance will now be fully vouched; and the date on which this change will come into effect. [56483/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements, if the reduction of 10% and more to the expenditure limits that comprise the parliamentary standard allowance will be applied to both the travel and accommodation allowance and the public representation allowance; if he will confirm the reduction he plans to make to both allowances and the date will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements, the date from which the 10% reduction to the party leaders allowance will come into effect. [56485/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Salaries (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to introduce the necessary legislation to abolish the severance payment to Ministers and other office holders paid to such persons when they cease to hold office; if he will confirm the number of current recipients of the allowance and provide in tabular form the names of these recipients and the amount each has received...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Salaries (18 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the saving to the Exchequer if Senators annual basic salary was capped at €60,000, TDs at €75,000, and all Government salaries at €100,000. [56951/12]