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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to focus on whether a number of recommendations are being implemented - the recommendation that the fixed charge processing centre in Thurles be the sole cancellation authority, that whenever someone petitions to have a fixed charge notice or penalty points cancelled, he or she must provide factual evidence from a third party, that if that evidence is not provided, the petition is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Everybody agrees there will be exceptional circumstances where people should have their penalty points terminated. For example, people could be rushing to a hospital with their child. However, there should be documentary evidence or paper trail that demonstrates that. The Minister is right to say that we must await the outcome of the current examination by GSOC. However, I am alarmed by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to commission or offer funding to a new Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland Report in order to gather more concrete and comprehensive data on sexual violence here. [35404/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Office of the Ombudsman Remit (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend the oversight powers of the Ombudsman’s office to cover our prisons and our immigration system including our direct provision centres. [35406/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is in a position to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas justice committee’s report on Traveller ethnicity published earlier this year. [35405/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the mediation Bill. [35403/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to adopt the recommendation of the Oireachtas committee on justice to criminalise those who purchase sex through prostitution. [35402/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring fence funding to support the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network to deliver the only programme specifically targeted at women from disadvantaged communities; the way he plans to provide support for this marginalised group who are not named under the social inclusion and community...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to engage with the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which now precludes them from securing funding post 2014 under the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to support the voluntary board of the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network with their responsibilities to seventeen local women’s projects, 44 staff members and approximately 200 non-directly employed staff. [36090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the marginalised women are not a target group of the new social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP; if he will provide reassurance to the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network that an alternative funding stream will be made available to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee is sitting in its capacity as Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions. I remind those present to switch off their mobile phones. We are pleased to welcome today Mr. Paul Kenny, Pensions Ombudsman, who will make a presentation on the role and remit of the ombudsman and the challenges facing his organisation in light of the proposed amalgamations. He is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Mr. Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Mr. Kenny talked about engaging with the Pensions Authority. Is there some degree of follow-up to ensure an issue has been resolved? Is there a process of going back and forth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Mr. Kenny find himself challenging or seeking clarification on decisions made by the Pensions Authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: From time to time, Mr. Kenny finds it necessary to conduct a special report on a particular issue. Does he lay such reports before the Houses of the Oireachtas, or are they submitted to the relevant Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This committee has two key remits. One is to receive petitions from the public relating to the reform of public services. We engage with those petitions and bring in witnesses such as Ministers and Secretaries General. The other remit is to engage with the various ombudsmen and support their recommendations as often as possible. If recommendations are not implemented, we follow up on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have no more questions so, on behalf of the joint committee, I thank Mr. Kenny and Ms Bray for their attendance and for engaging in an interesting and wide-ranging discussion. Their frankness and experience on the challenges involved in amalgamation were very helpful. Later in the year this committee will report on the overall picture regarding ombudsmen, and perhaps the legislation could...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is the only place we cannot do that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a farce.