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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 360: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount received by each city and county manager on retirement between January 2000 and February 2012 providing a break down of the final lump sum by annual pension, lump sum payment, and special severance gratuity payment. [12457/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Expenditure: Local Authority Expenditure (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of moneys spent by each local authority year on year from 2000 to 2011 on funding third level education for councillors in tabular form. [12509/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to provide funding to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for the 116000 missing children hotline; and if following ComReg's allocation of the 116000 number to the ISPCC she will confirm that the hotline number will be operational before the summer recess. [12578/12]

Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the programme for Government, the Government is committed to legislating for a new code of laws replacing the Ministers and Secretaries Act and the Public Service Management Act. The objective is to spell out the legal relationship between Ministers and civil servants and the legal accountability for decisions and management of Departments. I ask this question given its importance and...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach repeatedly tell us that they wish to restore Irish sovereignty. However, they do not seem to be having very much success. They propose a referendum to give away even more control over Ireland's economic affairs while the German Parliament discusses the Irish budgetary situation when Members of this House and the public are kept in the dark. For a second...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Government have the document?

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste may wish to try to trivialise matters when they are raised in this session. He may be amused at his own jokes - his backbenchers clearly are - but I hazard a guess that-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----people who are suffering from the results of his austerity will not find this a bit funny. I am glad to hear he will pursue this matter again. He told us this the last time. Does he remember the last time the Bundestag finance committee discussed the economic circumstances of this State at length? On that occasion, he also told us he would pursue the matter vigorously. If there was...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----because he is clearly very happy that Germany, perhaps France, the Commission and outside agencies and institutions would have a first view, a first opinion and a final decision-making capacity in respect of the economic governance of this State. His colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----thinks the referendum is still undemocratic. He obviously would prefer the German parliamentarians to take decisions for us. The Tánaiste told us there will not be a mini-budget.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: He indicated that he has this document. Will he tell us how long he has had it? How was it that parliamentarians in Germany saw and debated it before any Member of this House? Will he give a serious answer rather than a trivial one because that would be extremely helpful?

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: A 0% holding gives the State absolutely no say whatsoever yet that is what the Government proposes. A Minister serving in Government on an island nation proposes that the State should have a 0% holding and no influence over what was once the national airline. Michael O'Leary of Ryanair holds 29% of Aer Lingus. He is a vocal shareholder indeed. I am not a fan of Michael O'Leary or the...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Like the McCarthy report so lamented by them, Labour and Fine Gael have failed to present any evidence-based analysis of the impact on the Irish economy of the sale of these assets. They make vague, general statements that they cannot back up about competition. They say they are committed to jobs, yet they will use the bulk of the proceeds to write down debt. It is not that we are all...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Citizens and businesses have every right to expect the State will not abdicate its responsibilities in respect of energy, transport or the use for the common and collective good of the harvest of 7% of the land mass. I thank everyone who participated in this debate. I urge Deputies, particularly Labour Party Deputies, to think carefully, hard and long term and support our motion.

Written Answers — Regional Aid: Regional Aid (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps that he has taken to renegotiate the regional aid guidelines that govern the areas in which the enterprise and industrial development agencies in member states may grant regional aid; and when the new fairer guidelines will be in place. [11317/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will compare and contrast the resources assigned to the Competition Authority here with those operating at best practice level within the EU; if he will detail the resources needed within the economy here; and if he will detail the additional expenditure that he will designate to the Competition Authority to deal...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Ann Phelan is in it.

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last night's speech by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, begged the following question. What on earth has he done to the Labour Party? The Minister waxed lyrical about change and told us that all had changed, changed utterly. However, if he cared to stray back to the real world he would see nothing of significance has changed since the Government took office....

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: These companies have created tens of thousands of sustainable, quality jobs and they have delivered a first class world energy infrastructure. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are perfectly aware that to seek funding they could pursue matched capital investment funds from the European Investment Bank. They know they can make a useful investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to build...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government argues that an asset is not strategic simply by virtue of the fact that the State holds it in ownership and it is correct to hold this view. However, the Government should also reflect on the fact that there is a reason the State is the shareholder in energy companies. This is because energy, by definition and in terms of security of supply to households and industry, the...