Results 18,501-18,520 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Minister assure us that all of the data, not a half-baked version of it, in respect of the so-called surpluses, the areas where there are staffing shortfalls and the full detail of any cost-benefit analysis will be published in full? On publication of that data, I ask the Minister to allow us the opportunity to debate and discuss it, rather than have him as Minister simply making an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: One gets to a point with this theory of more with less where one runs out of rope eventually. The Minister is clearly minded to shed 10,000 more public servants. I ask him again to give an absolute commitment that the full details will be provided. I am labouring this point because when information was published in respect of, for instance, premium pay and allowances, it was not in any way...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Allowances Review (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make a statement on his recent review of public service allowances and premium payments; if he intends to make public all data relating to the allowances including the grade and pay level of recipients; and the way in which he intends to deal with these allowances and premium payments into the future. [43502/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the public sector voluntary redundancy scheme recently announced; if he will identify the areas in the public sector from which these redundancies are to be targeted; the targeted net saving to the Exchequer; and the provisions that will be put in place to protect service provision for citizens. [43503/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister for his response. I assume that this new scheme is designed to reduce numbers in the public sector by 10,000 by 2014. That was the Minister's stated target. I am working on the assumption that this is the mechanism that he has identified for doing that, but he might confirm that for me when he responds. The difficulty that my party has here is a fundamental one and...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I take it from Deputy McHugh's remarks he is likening Anglo-Irish relations to the relationship between the Labour Party and Fine Gael. May we offer our services in the event the parties need to strike a Good Friday-type arrangement? I hope the Labour Party's better instincts would win out in that particular encounter.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: As other speakers noted, this week the IMF admitted it had been wrong about the impact austerity would have on the Irish economy. It told us it had not foreseen the massively damaging impact tax hikes and cuts to expenditure would have on jobs and spending. It is very hard to believe that the IMF, or indeed any economist or commentator worth her or his salt, could have believed that taking...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce pensions paid to former office holders. [43486/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce excessive pensions paid to former senior civil servants. [43487/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Exchequer Savings (10 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net saving to the Exchequer from the reduction in public sector worker numbers since March 2011 taking into account pensions paid out to retirees and the loss of pension related contributions to the Exchequer. [43615/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The HSE would, therefore, have been involved in applying the deprivation index. That is how the first 20 were arrived at.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The HSE would have been involved in applying the additional criteria to identify the additional 15.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: In other words, the HSE applied the deprivation index according to the three-times multiplier, after which there would have been a certain ordering of the 300 centres that were already drawn up from 2007, as Mr. O'Brien indicated.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: What was the change regarding the additional 15?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Just so we are clear, the HSE did not have the same involvement in terms of adding the additional 15 sites. I understand HSE personnel were deeply involved in applying the criteria, that the list was drawn up and 20 centres were identified. Is that where the HSE's involvement ended?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that, but I am still dealing with selection. Had the HSE any involvement in terms of identifying the additional 15 sites? I understand from the witnesses that it did not.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is interesting. I find that somewhat astonishing. I would have believed that Mr. O'Brien would have asked. I would have assumed that the pool of people who would have been deeply involved with the application of criteria and the drawing up of lists would have been fairly limited. I did not believe an extensive trawl of staff would be required. Mr. O'Brien has been quite categorical...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can Mr. O'Brien check that?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that Mr. O'Brien and Dr. McLoughlin are members of the Cabinet sub-committee on health. Am I correct in that assumption?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach told the Dáil that Mr. O'Brien's predecessor at the HSE and the Secretary General from the Department of Health and Children attended the Cabinet sub-committee on health. That is the case.