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Other Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the Minister’s commitment to meet with the family of Private Doherty. One issue of concern and alarm brought to my attention is that, during the original investigation carried out by Colonel Savino at the time, he did not interview any of the team with which the two privates served. Other issues of concern are the isolated nature of the observation post they were holding,...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 130. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will meet the family of a person (details supplied). [12876/14]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have discussed this matter previously, which concerns the circumstances that led to the killing of Private Hugh Doherty and Private Kevin Joyce. Their families have requested a meeting with the Minister and I seek an update in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister is probably aware, I had an opportunity to meet some members of the Doherty family in County Donegal. I represent the constituency in which they live and from where Hugh Doherty came. I met some former members of the Defence Forces who had served with the two men. Mr. Eamonn Lafftery who was a member of the Defence Forces and president of PDFORRA was also present at that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It took place in 2001.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask that the Defence Forces examine this matter. They may need to contact the people who were involved in the meeting mentioned. Marwan Hamadeh is still alive and I ask that our diplomats in the region try to make contact with him to establish what happened after he gave that undertaking. I understand he was very exercised about the matter and made telephone calls while at the meeting....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 126. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline all efforts by the Defence Forces and his Department to follow up on an initiative from PDFORRA in March 2001 aimed at recovering the body of a person (details supplied) when they met the then Minister for the Displaced in the Lebanese Government, Marwan Hamadeh, in the Lebanon. [13081/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Fatalities (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have discussed this matter previously with the Minister. Two members of the Defence Forces, Private Hugh Doherty and Private Kevin Joyce, were killed on 27 April 1981 in Dyar Ntar, a village in south Lebanon. I wish to probe the efforts made to date by the Defence Forces and Governments to follow up on a meeting held in 2001 on the initiative of PDFORRA with representatives in Lebanon,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: White Paper on Defence (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 139. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the White Paper on Defence; and if we can expect to see it published prior to the end of this Dáil session in July. [12873/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Archives (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 140. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to make changes to the military records regarding the death of a person (details supplied). [12875/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Dialogue (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 141. To ask the Minister for Defence when he last met with the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces. [12874/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an annual breakdown, in tabular form, of the amount of money invested on student support services in County Donegal yearly since 2008. [13293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an annual breakdown, in tabular form, of the amount of money invested in education services in County Donegal yearly since 2008. [13294/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Development Projects (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 495. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an annual breakdown, in tabular form, of the money invested in the community sector in County Donegal yearly since 2008. [13291/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 496. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an annual breakdown, in tabular form, of the amount spent on social welfare payments in County Donegal yearly since 2008. [13292/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Expenditure (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 612. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 240 and 24 of 4 March 2014, his views that research carried out, using taxpayers money to fund it as recently as 2010 cannot be listed and made available as requested; if he will provide a list of research carried out but not published; and the reasons it was not published. [13412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 675. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an annual breakdown, in tabular form, of the amount of money invested by the Government in water and sewerage infrastructure in County Donegal yearly since 2008. [13297/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 732. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the Omagh Support and Self Help group to receive a copy and a personal presentation of the report they have commissioned into the investigations carried out on both sides of the border in connection with the 1998 Omagh bomb. [12808/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 732. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the Omagh Support and Self-Help Group to receive a copy and a personal presentation of the report they have commissioned into the investigations carried out on both sides of the Border in connection with the 1998 Omagh bomb. [12808/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Funding (25 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 741. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when a new criminal injuries compensation scheme board will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12982/14]