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Written Answers — Child and Family Support Agency: Child and Family Support Agency (15 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and type of additional posts that will be created for the establishment of the new Child and Family Support Agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23965/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No.107 of 2 May 2012, the date on which he intends to complete his consideration of proposals submitted to him by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding revised pension terms for city and county managers. [23451/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding back payments of rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [23511/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his proposals for new pension terms for city and county managers submitted to the Department for Public Expenditure and Reform for consideration. [23431/12]

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Tánaiste knows, the news from Germany yesterday was that opposition to austerity and the austerity treaty is growing. The peoples of France, Greece, Italy and Germany are opposed to austerity. Indeed, politicians in some of those countries are prepared to take a stand. As the Tánaiste knows, the Bundestag has needed to abandon its plans for ratification of the treaty because...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: She stated: "I won't be voting for the treaty. It's anti-democratic. They shouldn't put issues about the Constitution to the people and say 'if you don't support this, you'll be punished'".

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Connolly and the Tánaiste's colleague on Fingal County Council, Mr. Cian O'Callaghan, described the treaty as a step too far. Fine Gael also has divisions.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The mayor of Longford, Mr. James Keogh, says-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Speaking as a business person, he is urging people to vote "No".

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure that, despite the heckling to my right,-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----there are Deputies within the Labour Party who equally recognise that this treaty is a bad deal. Is it not time for the Tánaiste to join the growing opposition to austerity across Europe and within his own party?

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: All of those announcements were welcome and were made in the absence of the austerity treaty. The one figure that the Tánaiste omitted from his response was the nearly 500,000 people still on the live register. He has been found out.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The political sands are shifting and Labour's sister parties in the European Union, the trade union movement and, most importantly, the citizens of France, Greece,-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----Italy and Britain have recognised categorically that austerity is not working.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is little sense in the Tánaiste throwing out red herrings such as funding or the absurd argument that austerity will deliver growth when it has patently failed to do so.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste stated that each citizen has a right to cast his or her vote. Can I take it that Labour Party members, supporters and elected representatives have a free hand in voting? Clearly, there is unease among the party's grassroots.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Tánaiste is not prepared-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----to take account of the clear political shift away from austerity across the Continent,-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----perhaps he might consider listening to those within his party's grassroots, people who know that austerity has failed and that it will not deliver jobs or prosperity, who know how badly people are suffering-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and who are not prepared to go along with the Tánaiste's delusional stance-----