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Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I reiterate my question. What will the Taoiseach do about his Minister for Health in a scenario where he is so abjectly failing and where public confidence in him is so clearly lacking?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Allow the Taoiseach to reply.

Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that he has received applications to the sports capital programme totalling €369 million and his budget is €30 million, if he plans to request additional funding to make up the shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52687/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to support the continuation of full time taxi licence holders in the industry who are facing much financial hardship due to an oversupply exacerbated by part time drivers and taxi plate rental companies. [52662/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department or in bodies which fall under the remit of his Department whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is more than €200,000 in his Department or in any body under the remit of his Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if he has, the date on which he first made this contact; the number of staff who...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (27 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will guarantee that the delayed inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries report will be published by year end. [52591/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not the point we made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government will not do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: That was Oireachtas allowances and I stand over those comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of Croke Park nua, will the Minister finally address the issue of high pay in the public service and Civil Service? By high pay I refer specifically to those in receipt of salaries in excess of €100,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Just to clarify-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: We only have ten minutes and I do not want the clock run down because I have several questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: My question was not specifically aimed at medics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I pose my question in general terms. I want a "Yes" or "No" answer from the Minister. He has been very clear that he will be looking at the working week, premium pay, weekend working and so on. Is the issue of looking at - in whatever fashion - those on salaries of in excess of €100,000 on the agenda? I want a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is of course a debatable point and we do not have the scope for that debate here. I am taking it that the Minister's answer is a clear "No" and that he will not be looking at the issue of very high pay in the Civil Service and public service. That is the answer I ascertain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister confirm that he will? The Minister and I have spent recent months debating the review mechanism within the Croke Park agreement and his failure to use it to address this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is now moving to Croke Park nua and has a new opportunity. If I am wrong then I want the Minister to tell me that the issue of pay over and above €100,000 is on the table. I want him to confirm or deny that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: A Chathaoirligh, the Minister is deliberately running down the clock and misrepresenting my position to boot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: What the Minister will be at the heart of is going back to low and middle-income workers, some of whom work in these Houses of the Oireachtas, and telling them they need to work more hours, their premium pay will be reviewed as will all their related arrangements but the gross pay inequity in the system will not be addressed. It is not the medics, as the Minister well knows.