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Written Answers — Patent Applications: Patent Applications (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions taken by him and agencies to increase the number of patents submitted by Irish companies in the coming year. [27316/12]

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have followed most of the debate and perhaps we should be flattered by the fact the Labour Party is more concerned with attacking us than dealing with the substance of the ESM. However, it is a mistake to guillotine the debate. Had more time been provided, perhaps we would have moved beyond some of that posturing and discussed the substance of the proposition. Previous speakers welcomed...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: We object to the guillotining of this debate. It is a matter of the utmost importance that we get right a permanent bailout mechanism for the European Union. Given its importance and centrality, it is astonishing that the Government is attempting to guillotine the debate on the Bill. We object on these grounds.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The debate is being guillotined.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2012: First Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act in the public interest, to provide for the amendments to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011 in order to provide for the reduction of the remuneration of judges, military judges, certain other office holders; to provide for the amendments to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2012: First Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last Friday the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach said they sensed a new mood across the European Union following the "Yes" vote in the referendum in this state. The Taoiseach made it clear that this new mood would make a deal on our unsustainable banking debt burden a reality. No sooner were those words from his mouth than the German Finance Minister, Mr. Schäuble, said his interpretation of...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Tánaiste is well aware, the Labour Party in government has on two occasions extended the very bank guarantee against which he rails so strongly. It is time to change the record in this regard. The Tánaiste says he recognises, as we all do, the unsustainability of our bank debt and lauds the Government's achievement in securing a reduction in the interest rate, for which it has...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Guten morgan, Angela. Auf wiedersehen, Enda pet. Given the gravity of the situation, which the Tánaiste acknowledged, it is completely unacceptable that he cannot give a clearcut answer to the Dáil. The Tánaiste should understand the problem. The Taoiseach has repeatedly told us he is not seeking any write-down of debt. He said that very clearly. Why can the Taoiseach and the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: They told us there was a new mood. It strikes me that they will fuddle along in the hope that Spain can save their blushes but that is not good enough.

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (6 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the full annual remuneration of the chief executive officer of Science Foundation Ireland. [27016/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jun 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4. [27169/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reinstate the overseer position in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 for the 2012 July Programme. [25794/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have had their July Programme overseer funding withdrawn for 2012. [25795/12]

Nomination of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (24 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I support this motion. First, I pay tribute to the outgoing Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. John Buckley. Working on the Committee of Public Accounts, I saw at first hand Mr. Buckley's hard work and professional courtesy in dealing with all of us parliamentarians so I wish to acknowledge that and pay tribute to him. I look forward to working with his successor, Mr. Seamus McCarthy,...

Written Answers — Bank Levy: Bank Levy (23 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the proposal in the Programme for Government for a bank levy to be applied once the banking sector began functioning again will be applied in the lifetime of this Government; and the type of levy he envisions being applied. [25632/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Remuneration: Public Sector Remuneration (23 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to review the payments and allowances paid to vocational education committee chief executive officers; the changes, if any, he plans to make to these payments and allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20296/12]

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (resumed) (23 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am pleased to speak on this motion and it is gratifying to hear the leaders of the 1916 Rising lauded in this Chamber. Their bravery, vision and unquenchable desire for freedom should be fully acknowledged by all present. They took the fight to the imperial master. They had a vision for a republic set out in the Proclamation read at the GPO in Easter week. They fought for a free, united...

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (resumed) (23 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Consequently, it represents a consensus of sorts. It is both telling and negative that Members are even having this debate in the Chamber this evening. I cannot imagine that in any other country or European democracy there would even be a debate around the necessity to preserve the national monument and to do so in the most fulsome of ways. Rather that limiting preservation to a number of...

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (resumed) (23 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The terrace which the Government, and previous Governments, said is a national monument is derelict. That too is damning. The Minister said that there is little to separate the two sides in this debate. It strikes me that there is a gulf between us. The Government has set it compass to do the very minimum while those of us who have signed this motion want it to step up to the plate and do...