Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

EU Programmes

Mary Lou McDonald

73. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has prepared and submitted a partnership agreement outlining funding priorities for the 2014-2020 EU Structural Funds Programme; and if Community Led Local Development model is contained within the partnership agreement. [47262/13]

EU Programmes

Mary Lou McDonald

74. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of Community Led Local Development model and the proposed 10% funding top-up for those operational programmes where an entire priority axis is delivered through CLLD. [47263/13]

EU Programmes

Mary Lou McDonald

75. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the moneys available to Ireland yearly under the EU Structural Funds and Common Programmes and the Common Strategic Framework Funds for the period 2014-2020. [47264/13]

Leader Programmes Administration

Mary Lou McDonald

112. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the introduction of local community development committees as set out in the Local Government Bill 2013 is consistent with the draft common provisions regulations of the European Structural and Investment Funds 2014–2020, with particular reference to the decision by him to allocate primary responsibility for co-ordination, oversight and governance of the EU supported Leader programme to these committees. [47265/13]

Leader Programmes Administration

Mary Lou McDonald

113. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the proposed local community development committees as set out in the Local Government Bill 2013 are consistent with the main aims and key components of the EU funded community-led local development. [47266/13]

Leader Programmes Administration

Mary Lou McDonald

114. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the proposed funding distribution model to be used by local community development committees when distributing EU Common Strategic Framework funds. [47267/13]

Garda Transport Provision

Mary Lou McDonald

92. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new vehicles he intends to add to the Garda fleet over the next nine months. [45966/13]

Proposed Legislation

Mary Lou McDonald

94. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish an updated version of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010. [45972/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

112. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47084/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

131. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47078/13]

Tax Code

Mary Lou McDonald

233. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if section 18 of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 favours senior public servants; and if this legislative provision skews the rules to ensure high earning public servants are able to keep large pension entitlements amassed to date. [47065/13]

Tax Code

Mary Lou McDonald

234. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if application of section 18 of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 will result in senior public sector employees and high paid private sector employees in a defined benefit pension scheme being excluded from the standard funding threshold until 2054. [47066/13]

Tax Code

Mary Lou McDonald

235. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if section 18 of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 provides for a 70% super tax for private sector pensions that deliver income up to €60,000 per annum. [47067/13]

Tax Code

Mary Lou McDonald

236. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if he will set out pension tax reliefs for public sector and private sector employees noting any difference between the two. [47068/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

238. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47077/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

344. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47075/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

377. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47082/13]

Budget 2014

Mary Lou McDonald

409. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47080/13]

Budget 2014

Mary Lou McDonald

583. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of her Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47083/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

606. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47071/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

632. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the partial-year and full-year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47073/13]

Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

Mary Lou McDonald

633. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he was consulted prior to ESB management’s decision to treat the employees' defined benefit pension scheme as a defined contribution pension scheme in the company's annual accounts from 2010 and each year thereafter. [47091/13]

Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

Mary Lou McDonald

634. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he signed off on the ESB annual accounts of 2010 on behalf of the Government as the majority shareholder, and each year thereafter since taking office. [47092/13]

Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

Mary Lou McDonald

635. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in 2011, his attention was drawn to concerns raised by the ESB auditors, KPMG, prior to his signing of on the company's annual accounts on behalf of the Government as the majority shareholder with regards to the company's accounting treatment of the employees' defined benefit pension scheme. [47093/13]

Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

Mary Lou McDonald

636. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in 2011, his attention was drawn to refusals by ESB management to provide the company's auditors, KPMG, with documentation, information and confirmation regarding the company's decision to change the accounting treatment of the employees' defined benefit pension scheme to a defined contribution pension scheme. [47094/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

726. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47076/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

829. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47081/13]

Magdalen Laundries Report

Mary Lou McDonald

830. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he will bring the report of the interdepartmental group on the implementation of the recommendations of Mr. Justice Quirke before Government. [47089/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

852. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47074/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

973. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47070/13]

Missing Children

Mary Lou McDonald

976. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 27 March 2013, when she will supply the requested figures of missing unaccompanied asylum seekers' minors [46467/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

1006. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form, the partial year and the full year monetary effect of the Department's budget 2014 reductions in expenditure. [47072/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

1246. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47079/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

1295. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47085/13]

Homelessness Strategy

Mary Lou McDonald

31. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that funding cuts to Dublin City Council have resulted in a €4.5 million cut to homelessness services in the city; and the rationale for this in the context of the Government's commitment to ending long-term homelessness. [44836/13]

Leader Programmes Funding

Mary Lou McDonald

66. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to front-load the 2012 and 2013 Leader rural development programme underspend into 2014; if he will extend the Leader funding for the EDI centre for the unemployed in Longford; his views on the future of the Leader programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44816/13]

School Accommodation

Mary Lou McDonald

97. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the intended catchment area for a new primary school for which his Department has recently applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission on Bannow Road, Cabra West, Dublin 7 (details supplied). [44997/13]

Imeachtaí Comóraidh

Mary Lou McDonald

101. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Mary Lou McDonald den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le maoiniú a sholáthar chun ionad oidhreachta a thógáil ag Teach an Phiarsaigh in am do chomóradh 100 bliain Éirí Amach na Cásca. [44226/13]

National Cultural Institutions

Mary Lou McDonald

105. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of conservation, cleaning and maintenance across the State's cultural institutions; if further consideration has been given to the proposals in the comprehensive review of expenditure to put in place a structure along the lines of the Art Lab proposals in Australia, and the income that could be generated in that way. [44238/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

114. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44753/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

120. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44747/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

159. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the full year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014 as was provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44746/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

205. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44744/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

215. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44751/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

225. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44749/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

303. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for her Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013. [44752/13]

Social Welfare Code Reform

Mary Lou McDonald

304. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection the impact assessment studies her Department undertook in advance of the decision to reduce the jobseeker's payment to the under 25s. [44759/13]

Social Welfare Code Reform

Mary Lou McDonald

305. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that equality legislation deems that discrimination in accessing services based on age is illegal; if this bears any legal consequence for her or her Department following her decision to cut jobseeker's payment for the those aged and under 25s by 30%. [44760/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

318. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014, as provided for in the expenditure report 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44740/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

345. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the full-year effect of all expenditure reductions for his Department as set out in the Expenditure Report 2014, as provided for in the Expenditure Report 2013. [44742/13]