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Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was not a rhetorical flourish. It is a statement of reality and is shocking.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the utmost in humbug, Scrooge, to come in here and make any pretence that yesterday's budget was fair. We all know it represented a betrayal of a range of promises the Government collectively, but the Labour Party in particular, made to the electorate before the last election. That is the Government's problem. More to the point, it represented an all-out attack on older people,...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise one of the bad decisions made by the Government and it concerns the decision on the respite care grant. The Government has cut €325 from 77,000 families, 20,000 of whom receive no other State payment. All of the families care for people, many of whom have severe disabilities, including children. The Minister needs to reverse this decision. Fairness was breached in...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is serious.

Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Am I right in saying that this provision applies not just to redundancy payments, but also in the event of retirement? I agree with Deputy Fleming that there is, if not a universal view, certainly a growing consensus in this Chamber that issues of fair and equitable taxation for high earners must be addressed. The Government has not done so in this budget but it is starting to take baby...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, Éamon.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about Deputy Shortall?

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a pity they did not consider how others - citizens, families, mothers and women - will make it through these times. So enamoured of themselves are they that they still pay themselves way over the odds by European standards. I will give the Taoiseach an example. The French President earns €20,000 a year less than the Taoiseach. French Ministers are paid €40,000 less a...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here we go again. This is the sixth successive austerity budget, the sixth time that Ministers have announced a vicious attack on the living standards of low and middle income people and their families. This Labour-Fine Gael Government shares the same perverse instincts as the last Fianna Fáil-led Administration and the same unshakable belief that punishing struggling families is...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Wow.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: What has that to do with child benefit?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach's own Ministers did that.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of families currently engaged in the process with their mortgage lenders which will allow them to take up the mortgage to rent scheme; the number of families that are currently in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54242/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual pension in payment paid to a former Assistant Chief Inspector of his Department (details supplied) [53768/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all new services across the public service that have been tested for external service delivery since March 2011. [53764/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 21 November 2012, if it is the case that he does not intend to review the grading structure of the public service [53811/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Pension Levy (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form the annual benefit to the Exchequer of the public sector pension related deduction since its introduction; if he will confirm when he intends to withdraw this emergency measure. [54030/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Statutory Instrument 291 of 2012, if he will provide a list of existing city and county managers who will still be entitled to special pension privileges on retirement of up to ten added years and a special severance gratuity payment of up to a half year salary as provided for under Article 78 of the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Equality Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Health the action he intends to take to address his Department's failure on two occasions to comply with the Equal Status Acts in its administration of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53809/12]

Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have two questions. The first relates to the taxi regulation Bill. The Tánaiste will be aware of the pressure taxi drivers across the State are under. The deregulation of the industry some years ago was a disaster. When can we expect that Bill? Second, the ombudsman has found, once again, that the Department of Health and Children is operating a scheme in breach of the Equal...