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Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (1 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will commission an independent battlefield site assessment of the GPO and Moore Street, Dublin. [21412/12]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (1 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of non-commercial State agencies that operate performance related award schemes for their CEOs. [21578/12]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (1 May 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of allocations of National Lottery funding to Departmental expenditure programmes in 2011. [21750/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of complaints currently lodged with the Competition Authority; the number still extant after one year; the number of cases still extant after two, five and ten years; and his views on the resources and powers required by the Competition Authority to ensure timely and full compliance with Competition Law. [20895/12]

Written Answers — Employment Action Plan: Employment Action Plan (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to support businesses in crisis before they are forced to close. [20911/12]

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. The time allocated to the debate on this Bill has been completely inadequate. The Bill proposes the introduction of far-reaching changes, particularly for lone parents. It is shameful and disappointing that the Government is opting to guillotine this debate. We need more time to discuss it. I am not under any illusion that the Government will be changed from this course...

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It can answer for that but we certainly need more time and on those grounds we object to the proposal.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the troika completes its sixth review of the so-called bailout programme. I have no doubt that the Government will tell us that the main targets have been met and that the troika is satisfied with progress as we approach the programme's half-way point. No doubt the Government will tell us that all is well and rosy in the garden.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: What progress are we really making? Yesterday, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, told the finance committee that growth projections will be revised downwards yet again. Little wonder, given the wrecking ball that the Government has taken to the domestic economy. The total number of people on the dole queue is 434,800, 14.3% of the workforce, and 100,000 households are in mortgage...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps the Tánaiste can tell the House whether the Government has discussed the prospect of a second bailout with the troika. Maybe he can also tell us whether it has discussed the issue of a stimulus. It has mentioned how jobs are the way out of poverty, which we accept, but if this is the case, why has the Government turned its face against stimulus?

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will there be a second bailout? It will be news to the hundreds of thousands of people on the dole queues that progress is being made. It will certainly be news to lone parents upon whom the Government is imposing cutbacks. The Tánaiste is sticking to his own script in that regard. The Tánaiste claims that the Government is in favour of growth, yet it pursues a policy of austerity. I...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the State faces that prospect, will it have access to funding-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----irrespective of the people's vote on the Government's austerity treaty? Will the Tánaiste confirm whether it falls within the Government's gift to exercise a veto and ensure that no funding mechanism at European level is designed in such a way as to block out Ireland?

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste knows as well as I do that the bailout fund cannot come into existence without its ratification by this State. In the absence of any positive argument for cutbacks and austerity, the Government cynically chooses to scaremonger.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Set the record straight today and tell the people the full authority that the Government has on this matter. Are we looking at a second bailout? Reassure the House that the Government will ensure that the State has access. That is in the Government's gift, as he well knows.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is waffle.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: On a point of order, I object to the personal insults the Tánaiste is throwing across the floor.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To refer to another Member as "twisted" -----

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I can only deduce that the Tánaiste -----

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: ----- does not want to answer my question.