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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: UN Conventions Ratification (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Prior to the last election five years ago, the then leaders of Fine Gael and the Labour Party, Deputies Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore were asked what their priority issue was and both said it was rights for people with disabilities, particularly the rights of families of children with special needs. This Government has repeatedly introduced legislation in a matter of weeks, with some Bills...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 63. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why the Judicial Council Bill and the issue of the reform to judicial appointments have not been progressed through the Houses of the Oireachtas during this Government's term of office to date. [42460/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the decision to close 139 Garda Síochána stations in recent years, given that the savings are only around €4,000 per station per year. [42458/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Government intends to make a statement recognising the ethnicity of the Traveller community as recommended by the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality over a year ago. [42459/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why the Mediation Bill has not progressed through the houses of the Oireachtas over the past three years. [42457/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will provide the funding to complete the breakwater at Greencastle in County Donegal; and if he will support the plans to develop Greencastle Harbour as recently presented to his ministerial colleague and Department officials. [42311/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 311. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any embassies made requests to An Garda Síochána for additional security over recent times; and if those requests were adhered to. [42319/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 385. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the long waiting lists for patients with diabetes type 1 to see a consultant in Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal. [42307/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 386. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the policy of transferring children who have cancer from Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin in Dublin 12 to St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8 when they reach 16 years of age; and if a new policy will be considered that would not cause as much upheaval and at times distress for the families involved. [42308/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 388. To ask the Minister for Health if it is acceptable for a Teachta Dála to repeatedly request a meeting with the national ambulance service to discuss matters of concern within that Teachta Dála's constituency and to no avail. [42324/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports of issues with some windows in the new medical block at Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42325/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if the national ambulance service has a policy of leaving deceased persons at the location of their death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42326/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if the name change from Letterkenny General Hospital to Letterkenny University Hospital means that the hospital has the same status as all other hospitals in the Saolta Group for funding and billing purposes. [42327/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 456. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the agreement and arrangement between Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal, the Health Service Executive and the private clinic in Ballykelly in County Derry in relation to public patients from County Donegal accessing health care and services at Ballykelly, especially in relation to magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scans and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the inpatient and outpatient waiting list for orthopaedic surgery and procedures at Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal; and the steps being taken by management to deal with these waiting lists [42866/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will appoint an independent panel to investigate the issue of mica and defective blocks in County Donegal, as announced by the Minister of State (details supplied) earlier in 2015. [42309/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Enterprise Development Zones (1 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the deadlines to the 2015 budget for the rural enterprise development zones, issued to local authorities for 2016, so as to allow them to spend the allocations effectively. [42772/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (26 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will seek a report from the Garda Síochána as to the status of its investigation arising from a report made to it (details supplied) of the alleged theft of a number of pontoons from Mulroy Bay in County Donegal. [42180/15]

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO, has stated one in ten officers has resigned from the Defence Forces in the past two years after becoming disillusioned with the job. It is stating the last reorganisation of the Defence Forces in 2012 and 2013 continues to place very significant demands on association members. Has the Minister engaged with it to discuss these...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One cannot predict with certainty the numbers who will retire every year. I understand enlisted personnel serve for a defined period and that as suh one can predict that they will retire on a certain date, but do officers have more flexibility? Will the Minister explain why he cannot predict with certainty the exact numbers who will retire in order that he can budget appropriately for a...