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- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Minister saying he believes he has addressed the concerns that my amendment sought to address?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apologies. It is sometimes hard to translate what the Minister says.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister well knows, these are matters for negotiation. Therefore, I will withdraw the amendment and see what happens at a later stage, if Deputy Finian McGrath agrees.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There cannot be more than 16 members of the disciplinary tribunal, but there is a concern that this may not be enough. Has the Minister reflected on the matter?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the matter be examined?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about notaries public? We are getting representations asking why notaries public and legal executives are not dealt with in this legislation.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister appreciates the issues involved here and has received representations from the various bodies on them, particularly the Law Society and the Bar Council. Both representative organisations want to ensure the levy is as fair as possible, based on the level of complaints against the legal practitioners they represent. I am disappointed at the register of solicitors. It is valid to...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Concern has been expressed about the proposed section 69 (11), which is being interpreted as a potential dividend being returned to Government. Is that interpretation correct? I would like the Minister to tease that out with us.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With the permission of the Chair, may I clarify that the Minister is stating that the Department will engage with the Law Society and the Bar Council to hear their concerns about the Minister's most recent amendment and that he will ensure there is a fair distribution of the levy and that he will deal with the number registered and the number practising?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Tánaiste knows, Letterkenny General Hospital was devastated by a flood last July. A total of 40% of the floor space of the hospital was contaminated by flood water. The response from the staff and management as those flood waters were coming into the accident and emergency department and the rest of the hospital was nothing short of heroic. The heroism shown by the staff and...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yesterday, the daughter of Máire Uí Dhomhnaill, an elderly cancer patient, told her mother's story. She was brought to that hospital at 5 p.m. last Monday evening and waited in the accident and emergency department for 14 hours in unbelievable conditions until 7 a.m. the following morning. Another woman who attended the accident and emergency department with her husband said:The...
- Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Tánaiste will be aware that representatives of the Central Remedial Clinic are appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts today to deal with the scandal that emerged before Christmas. This has thrown into sharp focus the Charities Act 2009 which has not been enacted and the need for a charities regulator. When will the Government enact the Charities Act? My second question...
- Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I know that, but will the Tánaiste push it forward? It could run into next year. I am asking the Government to prioritise it.
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the full implementation of the unenacted provisions of the Charities Act 2009; to include the advancement of human rights as a charitable purpose and to provide for related matters.The Bill aims to enact provisions of the Charities Act 2009. The Act was passed to reform the law on charities and ensure they were...
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Equality Proofing of Budgets (16 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if following the the recent analysis by Social Justice Ireland which stated that Ireland’s poorest 10% lost 18.4% of their disposable income since the start of the crash in 2008, by contrast the richest 10% lost 11.4%, if he will support the introduction of equality budgeting or the equality impact assessment of all future budgets. [52791/13]
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He will not wait months for an operation.
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: "The the Bill be now read a Second Time."