Results 18,261-18,280 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I note a number of the allowances which will not apply to new entrants and I wish to ask about several of them. I ask Mr. Donnellan to talk me through them. These include clerk to the suicide review forum and clerk to the security committee in Portlaoise, and I think I saw on the screen an allowance for clerk to the prison visiting committees. The savings involved are extremely modest and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Donnellan satisfied that getting rid of these allowances will not result in an inferior service and that it is not a downgrading of the committees?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the witnesses. In respect of comparisons across the public sector, we earn €92,000 as Deputies, so if one takes it on that simple calculation, €62,000 is a good wage. It would not strike me as excessive and I do not know if I am alone in remembering the saga around the introduction of annualised hours. I remember there was huge and legitimate concern about endemic...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The keyholder allowance is a particularly pertinent one for prison officers. How many people in the Irish Prison Service or the Department earn in excess of €100,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, including the Irish Prison Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can Mr. Donnellan help us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a limited number of people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know Mr. Donnellan is not giving us an exact answer today but it would be useful for us to have that information. I reiterate that a point of concern for me is the importance of considering who the beneficiaries of an allowance are, in addition to the allowance itself and its costs. If one looks at the grades listed, such as trades officers, clerks and even chief officers, one can see...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Where are they located?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: When was that campus structure introduced?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: How are those savings of 17% being achieved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: What does that amount to in hard cash?
- Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not agreed.
- Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is almost scandalous that the Government would wish to push through this Estimate without debate. The Estimate covers all the expenses associated with the operation of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including the salaries of Members and office holders, expenses and allowances. These are the very things that Members of this House examine in respect of other sectors. They pick over the...
- Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is unacceptable that the Estimate is being put through the Dáil on the nod. We need a full debate on remuneration, allowances and expenses as they pertain to us. This the forum for such a debate. We object in the strongest of terms to the taking of this motion without debate.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Tánaiste speak to the Minister about this matter? Did he tell the Tánaiste that he had met NAMA?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Minister tell the Tánaiste that they had discussed the issue of primary care centres and their locations? Did he tell him that Balbriggan was part and parcel of that discussion? If the Tánaiste knew all of this, did it not set alarm bells ringing? He stood up here and gave a very long, elaborate answer on one issue that I had raised, but he is clearly dodging the issue of...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, the Tánaiste did not know about the meeting.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The troika will conclude its review of the so-called bailout programme today and no doubt will give us a collective pat on the back and congratulate the Government on meeting its cutback targets. It thinks the Government is doing a great job because it is keeping it happy, but back at the ranch it is very different for citizens, particularly those who rely on the health service. Sinn...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I stand by my use of language.