Results 19,601-19,620 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 572: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, junior Minister and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and junior Ministers and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10852/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 593: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regard to senior civil servants. [10848/12]
- Written Answers — Domestic Adoptions: Domestic Adoptions (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 624: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her budget allocation for the staffing and administrative costs of the processing of domestic adoptions in 2011 and 2012 [10595/12]
- Written Answers — Domestic Adoptions: Domestic Adoptions (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 625: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of domestic adoption applications currently being processed by the Health Service Executive; and on average the length of time since the applicant families first submitted their applications [10596/12]
- Written Answers — Domestic Adoptions: Domestic Adoptions (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 626: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive is delaying the domestic adoption of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1. [10598/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 636: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the total amount each Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses, since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regard to senior civil servants. [10850/12]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 659: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has been unable to obtain an appointment for necessary eye surgery. [10725/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 680: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the total amount each Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10857/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 778: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the total amount each Government Minister, junior Minister and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and junior Ministers and in the calendar year of 2011 with regards to senior civil servants. [10863/12]
- Public Sector Pay (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Some 10% of them are on family income supplement. The Minister is protecting people on outrageous salaries. The answer is clearly "No".
- Public Sector Pay (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I assumed Other Questions was finished. I can only read from the response of the Minister that he is quite happy for a significant number of public servants to be so poorly paid that the State has to supplement their income with family income supplement, while giving us codswallop about expertise and skills to explain salaries he knows no sane person could justify.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the final number of public service employees who will leave the service between 1 January 2012 and 29 February 2012; if he has received a report from each of the five transition teams on the way the impact of the end of February retirements will be managed; if he has submitted to Government a memorandum of the reports...
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The figure is 3% of the entirety of the public service. The Minister referred to the extent of the planning done to date and the advance notice given in respect of the incentivised retirement package.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is, actually. One would not ordinarily see this type of exodus from the service without a clear incentive being in place.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have not had sight of the individual sectoral reports that the Minister stated were on each Department's website, but I have with me the Civil Service sectoral plan. The contingency plans are contained in an appendix to the document, which can be found on the Minister's departmental website. What is striking is the fact that the appendix is scant on detail. It repeatedly makes assertions...
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: It will be news to virtually all the retiring public servants that the incentivised exit mechanism was not in fact an incentive but we will agree to differ on the semantics of it.
- Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister stated that the objective is to downsize further. I ask him to explain what he means by that. I presume he is envisaging something that falls within the parameters of the Croke Park agreement. He might enlighten us in this regard. He also says the objective is to act more effectively and efficiently but his record to date has been purely about reducing headcount via an...
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full list of all payments and allowances paid to members of the Government; the changes, if any, he plans to make to these payments and allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11411/12]
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister had my full attention. I am sorry that he was cut short.
- Ministerial Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)
Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that. I was introducing a note of levity, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I would like to focus on one or two specific matters. What, if anything, does the Minister propose to do about the laundry tax deduction allowance of â¬3,500 that is available to Ministers from outside Dublin who stay in hotels? Can the Minister comment on the dual abode allowance, which is offered to...