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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Funding (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 673. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the figure for outstanding adjudications from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal which have yet to be paid. [22608/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Funding (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 674. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the failure to appoint the membership of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal is a budgetary measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22609/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) with progressive multiple sclerosis lost their medical card; and the reason they have been waiting since March for a review. [22135/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including in the medical practitioner’s contract with the Health Service Executive a stipulation that the contracted doctors update twice yearly the medical conditions of all medical card holders to the medical card section. [22646/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 782. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that the obstetrics unit at Letterkenny General Hospital is under threat with a serious impact on maternity services at the hospital [22559/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 799. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow is having their medical card reviewed so soon after being reviewed and reissued with a card late last year; the way a person living with polio poliomyelitis which left them paralysed from the waist down and a full-time wheelchair user as well as post-polio syndrome, scoliosis of the spine for which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 800. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card section cannot or will not make a direct call to the relevant doctor to ascertain if the medical card recipient's outlined medical circumstances have changed since they last applied [22645/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it permissible for the medical card section to confirm with local authorities whether the person's rent has changed since they were last reviewed [22647/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 803. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it the task of the staff of the medical card section to gather the relevant information from the professional bodies concerned when assessing medical card applications from disabled persons [22648/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the way the removal of the medical card fits with the Government's Healthy Ireland – A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing (details supplied); if the key to this approach is as stated a focus on prevention and whole of society approach to improving health; the way the removal of the vital support of a medical card for people with disabilities...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 937. To ask the Minister for Health the tendering process undertaken that led to the commissioning of the health partnership to carry out a report on maternity services on behalf of west and northwest hospital group; further to establish that there were no conflicts of interest in the decision. [23266/14]

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why can the Taoiseach not give it to us today? Just tell us.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: People say a week is a long time in politics and refer to how circumstances can change. I recall when Deputy Wallace introduced this Bill last year, it was resisted and it was seen as wishful thinking, ill thought out and so on. As recently as February this year, I asked the former Minister for Justice and Equality about an independent policing authority and he robustly rejected the notion....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Death Certificates Issues (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has yet to be furnished with a death certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23444/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It made a lot of sense to me that at our previous hearings GSOC suggested that the more minor complaints from the public or from members of An Garda Síochána should be dealt with in an informal resolution process. I note that Ms O'Loan's detailed submission also includes that recommendation. I am interested to hear the views of Ms O'Loan and of the acting Garda Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: At last week's committee hearings, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Amnesty International, Transparency International Ireland and other contributors raised the issue of security oversight. Unlike in the North of Ireland, An Garda Síochána has responsibility for intelligence, security and policing all under the one roof. The contributors last week made the suggestion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a few other questions for the acting Garda Commissioner. In regard to all of the recent debacles and, in some cases, scandals that have emerged, what are the learning curves for senior management in An Garda Síochána in terms of dealing with whistleblowers and serious allegations? I am sure the acting Garda Commissioner has had an opportunity to read the Guerin report, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The acting Garda Commissioner will be aware that there is a legal responsibility on senior Garda management to protect whistleblowers. It is reported again today in the media that Sergeant Maurice McCabe is very isolated, unable to attend work and has made repeated complaints about how he is being treated. I spoke to him today on the basis of the article in today's Irish Independent. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the acting Garda Commissioner personally take responsibility for dealing with this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a farce.