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Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in a tabular form, the public sector posts, including in commercial State companies and Government advisors for whom he has approved a breach of a pay cap. [32378/12]

Written Answers — Family Planning Summit: Family Planning Summit (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has been invited to the family planning summit due to be held next month in London, hosted by the British Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the support of UNFPA and other partners; if Ireland has not been invited, if he will confirm if he or his officials have sought an invitation;...

Written Answers — National Aquatic Centre: National Aquatic Centre (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he or his Department officials have taken in response to recommendations 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 of the report on VAT Costs on the National Aquatic Centre by the Committee of Public Accounts published in May 2012. [32659/12]

Written Answers — National Aquatic Centre: National Aquatic Centre (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he or his Department officials have taken in response to recommendations 3, 4, 5, 9 of the report on VAT Costs on the National Aquatic Centre by the Committee of Public Accounts published in May 2012. [32658/12]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department has failed to meet the UNCAT deadline for follow-up on its report of June 2011 which recommended reparation for the Magdalene survivors; if he or the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations Office at Geneva have responded to Felice D. Gaer's Rapporteur...

Written Answers — National Aquatic Centre: National Aquatic Centre (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he or his Department officials have taken following the publication of the report on VAT costs on the National Aquatic Centre by the Committee of Public Accounts in May 2012. [32657/12]

Public Sector Reform (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Because it has not been set up.

Departmental Staff (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is another issue I have raised consistently with the Minister. One of those entitled to the TLAC terms is the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Perhaps the Minister might clarify when he was appointed and explain the turn of events. I understood he was appointed on the Minister's watch. I have raised this issue in the past and was not talking about...

Departmental Staff (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is hiding behind advice from the Attorney General on pension rights being vested property rights.

Departmental Staff (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have told the Minister before, even though I know it is not customary, to publish the advice from the Attorney General. It would be useful if he would do so for the purpose of public debate. The enabling clause gives the Minister retrospective powers in respect of people's pension entitlements. I asked a specific question about this and it was disallowed on the basis that the information...

Departmental Staff (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am so relieved.

Departmental Staff (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has not dealt with the issue.

Oireachtas Members' Salaries (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Minister, although he did not need to go through all of that preamble, given the fact that we are aware of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, Acts and so on. Is it not a good idea to save €3.2 million? It is a cut and would have implications for people, myself included, but why can we not do it? It would not solve our problems, but doing this...

Oireachtas Members' Salaries (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister gives that answer to Deputies when we raise this matter, but he is missing the point, which is that Members of the Oireachtas should collectively take a pay cut.

Oireachtas Members' Salaries (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know what we have done. Please do not rehearse the history. I am speaking about the present and the future. Notwithstanding everything that has occurred to date, there will be another tough budget in December.

Oireachtas Members' Salaries (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister will recant all of the cuts and savings - he will term them "adjustments" - that will have consequences for people who are eking out an existence. As elected representatives, public officials and leaders in our society, we should take a collective pay cut. The saving might be modest, but the effect of showing leadership would be significant. Bar a smart answer, I have never...

Oireachtas Members' Salaries (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government isolated a group in terms of judicial pay.

Oireachtas Members' Salaries (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government brought judges into the fold.

Economic Policy (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Department refused to cost a wealth tax proposal last year.

Economic Policy (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what the Deputy said.