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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Gambling Control Bill: Discussion (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We were trying to keep them out of our backyard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Revised Eligibility Criteria for State Pension (Contributory): Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I remind all of those present - including members, the media and those in the public Gallery - that mobile phones and BlackBerrys must be switched off completely because, even in silent mode, they interfere with the sound recording system. I am pleased to welcome the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, and her officials, Ms Patricia Murphy, principal officer, and Ms Vera McGrath,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Revised Eligibility Criteria for State Pension (Contributory): Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will open the discussion for questions. Senator O'Keeffe is indicating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Revised Eligibility Criteria for State Pension (Contributory): Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I must interrupt the Minister as a vote has been called in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Revised Eligibility Criteria for State Pension (Contributory): Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The three speakers next in line are not present, I call Senator Ó Clochartaigh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Revised Eligibility Criteria for State Pension (Contributory): Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Senator O'Keeffe wish to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Revised Eligibility Criteria for State Pension (Contributory): Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are members happy with the way the meeting has proceeded? I thank the Minister and her team - Ms Murphy and Ms McGrath. We are very grateful to them for taking the time to meet us today and for their co-operation in dealing with members' questions. I also ask that the two petitioners be sent a transcript of the meeting so they are aware that their concerns have been raised. I thank the...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The assisted decision-making (capacity) Bill has been dragging on for quite some time. I read some text from the Courts Service and saw the word "lunatics" is still in legal parlance in 2013. When will the Bill go ahead? The whole disability community is waiting on it.

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 6. To ask the Minister for Finance the budget adjustment necessary this year to reach the troika’s deficit target of 5.1%; and the level of taxes and expenditure cuts this deficit will require. [41519/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (3 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make it clear to the Central Bank of Ireland that letters threatening repossession do not constitute sustainable offers of sustainable conclusions under the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Targets. [41505/13]

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill is being revised. If he is not aware of it, I would like to bring to the Taoiseach's attention a report in today's The Irish Times on direct provision centres which referred to the treatment immigrants receive in them, the fact a family of six was living in one bedroom during one inspection, blocked emergency exists and breaches in child...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When will the Taoiseach bring forward this legislation to deal with what I believe is the modern day version of the way we dealt with people in institutions such as the Magdalen laundries? It is no way to treat people.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 450. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the specific date in July 2000 on which the company which specialised in the field of destruction started destroying firearms and ammunition which was stored at Clancy Barracks. [42132/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 451. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question of 4 July 2013, if the serial number of the gun confirmed as destroyed by the Minister had appeared in Garda records before 17 of August 1989. [42133/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 453. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way it is possible that a company could destroy a gun and ammunition on 19 July 2000 in spite of the fact that it only won the tender to destroy firearms and ammunition in Clancy Barracks after the 29 January 2002. [42137/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 454. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the suggested sale date of Clancy Barracks of July, 2000 that was given in response to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 623 and 624 of 28 June 2005, provided as an explanation for the date of the destruction of the gun, 19 July 2000, confirmed by the Minister in response to Parliamentary Question of 4 July, 2013; if he will confirm that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 455. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the investigation by the Garda Complaints Board in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in 1992 could be considered to have comprehensively investigated issues regarding the sale date of Clancy Barracks which was raised more than eight years later; the way the investigation by the Garda Complaints Board...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 456. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the progress of an investigation by the Garda Complaints Board in the case of a person (details supplied). [42141/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 457. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has familiarised himself with all the facts in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, up to the present date; including after 1992 when the Garda Complaints Board completed its investigation. [42142/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (8 Oct 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 452. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the person who was chief superintendent in charge of the Garda technical bureau in Dublin in the year 2000. [42136/13]