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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend Deputies Pringle and Healy on this Private Members' Bill. Sinn Féin supports the proposed amendment to the Constitution. A total of 85% of the members of the Constitutional Convention voted in favour of amending the Constitution to strengthen the protection of economic, social and cultural rights, and a majority of the convention voted for a constitutional provision along the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (19 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of relocating her Department staff in Letterkenny, County Donegal, from their High Road office to the Oliver Plunkett Road office, due to the discovery of asbestos material during renovations at the High Road office; and when the High Road office will be open to the public. [19475/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (19 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she will provide a progress report from her Department on the efforts to secure a site of adequate dimensions in Buncrana, County Donegal, to facilitate a three-school campus for schools (details supplied); and if she will allocate the necessary funding for this project to proceed. [19476/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will immediately publish all submissions received by her Department in relation to the new policing authority, in order that Oireachtas Members can consider them, and to assist with potential amendments to the Bill, as it moves through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [19811/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I believe I submitted a parliamentary question about the matter, but I wanted to raise it today. It relates to submissions made to the Department about the now published legislation for the new policing authority. Will the Minister publish all those submissions to assist Deputies, including Deputies Niall Collins, Clare Daly, Wallace and me, who will be engaging with the legislation through...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the Minister's confirmation. I express concern over a few areas. Garda Síochána officers, to whom I have spoken over recent years, have told me there is an issue in terms of a meritocracy over recruitment. This applies not just to senior officers but goes through the ranks. We need better oversight not just of the appointment of assistant commissioners up to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The difficulty is that the legislation does not address the appointment of sergeants to the position of superintendent and, possibly, chief superintendent. That is where there is a big issue. I submitted ten questions to the Minister six months ago. Her response at the time was that she would refer them to the Garda Commissioner, but I have yet to receive responses to them. My concerns...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reforms she plans to introduce to make the State fully compliant with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, given that Articles 1 and 2 of the convention, when read together, require a proper and adequate official investigation into deaths resulting from the actions of State agents, both from the use of lethal force...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Minister satisfied that the State is compliant with Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights? Taken together, Articles 1 and 2 place a particular responsibility on the State to investigate deaths in suspicious circumstances, whether at the hands of State agents or others. The Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and the Joint Committee on Public Service...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If one reads Article 2 with Article 1, there is a broader challenge for the State. I will use as an example the case of Mr. Seamus Doherty who was murdered in Donegal in 2012. I have raised this case previously with the Minister at Question Time. In recent days Mr. Doherty's daughter, Caitriona, was in contact with me. She is on the verge of taking legal action against a range of bodies....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The other case that has led me to pursue this matter is that of Jake McGill-Lynch who in 2013 tragically took his life with a weapon in his own home. His family have been pursuing the issue of whether medication could have had an impact on his mental health that led to that scenario. It is devastating for this family, too, who are locked in a process through the coroner's system. The...

Other Questions: Immigration Policy (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This session did not start until 2.03 p.m.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I must object in the strongest terms. This session did not start until 2.03 p.m. and there are three minutes still remaining in this session under my clock because the quota from the Government side was not here. I have been waiting patiently for this question and I will adhere to the three minutes.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a point of order. There is a question here.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This session did not start until 2.03 p.m. We are sitting here with questions we cannot put.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Acting Chairman clarify a point of order?

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will not take my seat because this session was delayed by three minutes. The Acting Chairman is rewarding the Government for not getting its numbers here and denying the Opposition its chance to ask questions. It is outrageous. My point of order continues while the Ceann Comhairle is in the Chair. The Ceann Comhairle is normally very reasonable.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Ceann Comhairle is normally very reasonable when it comes to the issue of time. If a session is late in starting, he allows the Opposition to have its full period for questions. One question is being denied here because the session was late in starting due to the Government quorum. I ask the Ceann Comhairle to adjudicate on this issue and allow it. I am only asking for two minutes....

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I ask the Ceann Comhairle a question?

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If there was a delay of ten or 15 minutes, that means-----