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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome Minister of State at the Departments of Health and Justice and Equality with responsibility for disability, equality, mental health and older people, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, her officials, Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick, assistant secretary, and Ms Sandra Walsh, assistant principal, and Mr. Gerry Raleigh, director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention. The Minister of State is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. McVeigh and Dr. Mac Laughlin for coming to share their considerable expertise on the subject matter of the meeting. I have been monitoring public discourse on this issue for some time. The delegates may be aware of the situation in County Donegal where, following confirmation that a Traveller family was to be housed in a settled part of the town of Ballyshannon, the response of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Development of New Prison in Cork City: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I was one of the members of the delegation that visited the prison and in fairness to the governor, from the outset he made it clear that the conditions are unacceptable. We desperately need a new prison and therefore we are very enthusiastic about this proposal. In fairness I note the Minister has gone some way to addressing the planning concerns. I presume that is the reason the Act was...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the conditions being experienced by many low paid or unemployed private rental tenants especially in Dublin's inner city as highlighted by reports from the RIAI and Dublin City Council; and his plans to improve conditions and enforce the law on unscrupulous slumlords. [27060/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form the funding his Department allocated to each local authority for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 for their respective fire service. [28064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the national broadband scheme will link up with private companies already involved in broadband rollout to provide greater coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26707/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider measures to encourage and incentivise unemployed persons in this State to avail of employment opportunities across the border in Northern Ireland by allowing them to retain their jobseeker's payment for the duration of any unpaid lying weeks they may have to serve and by subsidising them for the difference between the minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 676. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans, if any, to address the anomaly whereby Irish citizens sentenced to imprisonment abroad and repatriated to serve their sentence back home in this State can end up serving longer imprisonment due to less remission available here. [27284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 698. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the difference in daily rates for asylum seekers in Direct Provision; and if he will provide a breakdown of the daily rate for asylum seekers in State-owned and privately owned Direct Provision centres. [26884/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 700. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the revenues and profits generated by the tuck shop at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in 2011 and 2012 and the ten most popular items apart from cigarettes sold at the shop in 2012 and quantities in each case. [26914/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 886. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider utilising the services of fire fighters employed full time or on a part time retainer, across the State in their capacity as trained emergency first responders as a back up to the ambulance service when there is a possibility that the ambulance on call cannot respond to an emergency within an acceptable time frame. [27136/13]

Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are hungry.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Oileáin Eischósta (30 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 31. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil na hAerstráicí in Inis Bó Finne agus sa Chloigeann á n-úsáid faoi láthair agus an bhfuil aon phleananna ag an Roinn tuilleadh forbartha a dhéanamh orthu. [26251/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge (30 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 43. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú i dtaobh an bhfuil i gceist aige scéim deontais a chur ar fáil do mhná tí sna Coláistí Samhraidh a bhfuil gá acu le breis spáis lóistín chun tacú leo a dtithe a thabhairt suas chuig na caighdeáin chuí ó thaobh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman's Report on Nursing Home Care: Discussion with Department of Health (29 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. McLoughlin and his team. This is the third time he has come before the committee and we appreciate his co-operation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman's Report on Nursing Home Care: Discussion with Department of Health (29 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Senator raised a range of issues, I ask her to summarise her questions for clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman's Report on Nursing Home Care: Discussion with Department of Health (29 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. McLoughlin for his presentation. I will now take members' questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman's Report on Nursing Home Care: Discussion with Department of Health (29 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask for mobile telephones to be switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with broadcasting equipment even when in silent mode. I welcome Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin, Secretary General at the Department of Health. He is accompanied by Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick, assistant secretary in social care, Ms Gráinne Duffy, principal officer in the disabilities unit, Mr. Chris...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (29 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 16 May 2013, if she considers it acceptable and fair that the person received a once off payment of €100 for the duration of the twelve weeks that they were hospitalised (details supplied); and if she will provide financial assistance considering the exceptional needs of this particular case...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences Approvals (29 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the basis on which he has granted prospecting licences to a company (details supplied) in a wide range of townlands across County Donegal; the reassurance he can provide to those local communities who will have a range of concerns including environmental, regarding the issuing of this licence [26047/13]