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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Did I not interrupt Senator Ó Clochartaigh?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That was because he actually put questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking the Deputy whether she wants to put a question or not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With respect, I am the Chairman. I have the right to interject at any stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking Deputy Mulherin to conclude her remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister particularly in the circumstances under which he has come here today and the pressure he is under. We appreciate his coming before the committee to assist us with our deliberations. We will now suspend our public session and will conclude in private session to conclude our business.
- Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The difficulty is that the British Government has never acknowledged the full extent of its role in the conflict. This was alluded to in the documentary and since then. The British Government has been dragged kicking and screaming - sometimes after decades of investigation - into acknowledging some incidents where it was responsible. That is the missing element. It has been the missing...
- Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The documentary on RTE on Monday night was very welcome following the excellent exposé in the book Lethal Alliesby Anne Cadwallader. If the Minister has not read it, I strongly recommend that he do so. The documentary took the viewers through decades of systemic collusion between British State forces and agents of the British State. Reference has been made to republican...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Chairman provide a copy of the list of grouped amendments?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not have a hard copy of the list.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Chairman for that.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am speaking to amendments Nos. 122 and 123. This is in line with recommendations from Mental Health Reform which welcomes the provisions in the Bill regarding co-decision-making and decision-making representatives. In order to protect the independence and integrity of the position of co-decision-makers and decision-making representatives, it is important that the list of persons who...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I acknowledge the Minister of State's Department has engaged extensively with the NGOs and has taken on board many of their concerns in the new amendments. One of the areas of concern is that the new protections to address the historic mistreatment of people with intellectual disabilities or with mental health difficulties should be extended to people in centres. The concern would be that...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not convinced that the Minister of State has addressed the concerns, so I will press the amendment when we deal with it.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that the Minister has outlined a shared concern about the amendments that I have submitted. She has outlined that her legal advice states that the matter is problematic. I am happy, when we reach the amendments, to withdraw for now. However, I reserve the right to resubmit them on Report Stage. This aspect is something that we could not accept because it would undermine the...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The amendments submitted by Deputy Anne Ferris have been introduced in response to concerns from a human rights perspective. Does the Minister of State feel she has taken them on board and addressed those concerns?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The specific concerns we have received are from the centre for disability law and policy in NUI Galway. There is concern about informal decision-makers. The Minister of State might have received similar representations to the Department. Does she feel those concerns have been addressed?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a reasonable offer. Could the Minister's official e-mail both Deputy Keaveney and me to establish contact? As late as yesterday evening I was receiving representations on the matter which suggests there still seems to be a concern. In fairness, the Minister of State has made a very constructive offer to resolve the issue rather than have an argument back and forth now. We will...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fair enough.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendments Nos. 17 to 415 were discussed together. Have all of those amendments been dealt with?