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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fair point. Thank you, Dr. Farrell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will bring in Mr. Kelly presently, but I want to get a response to my previous question first. Let us suppose the members of the deputation were in front of the Minister for Justice and Equality. What three issues would you ask her expedite to bring us into compliance, as you see it? We will start with Mr. Kelly and then work our way around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Dr. Mavronicola, you wanted to deal with a previous question. Perhaps you could respond to both questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is particularly important for us to have received the presentation made by Dr. Farrell as a practitioner and to have seen the challenge from various perspectives. The panel in attendance today has given us the full balance of perspectives. This will be very important for us at the next stage of our work, which will involve trying to bring in the change. I really appreciate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I understand that Deputy McFadden wishes to make a final point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank all of our witnesses and guests for being here today for this immensely helpful session. The submissions will be published. The transcript of this meeting, along with the submissions, will be sent on to the Minister and to the senior Department officials who are engaging with this matter. The Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions will meet again in private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the two Chairmen for facilitating a rare and very welcome joint meeting of committees. I will make a very brief commentary, because Deputy Pringle and I are Deputies for Donegal and all the public representatives in the county have huge admiration for the work of Pro-Social Drivers. I am from the Inishowen peninsula. As mayor of my home town of Buncrana, I had to comment on a road...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Chairman will agree that we have all been very impressed with what we have heard here. I hope both joint committees can correspond with the two Ministers. I do not know whether it is something that can be decided now or will have to be decided later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is in order. I thank the Chair.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has the Taoiseach demanded a meeting with the Egyptian President whose name, incidentally, is el-Sisi?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Stagg should shut up.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (11 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) whose payment was cut off and who is now relying on the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for financial assistance; and the reason the deciding officer has advised the community welfare officers to refuse the person any payment or exceptional needs payments. [22708/15]

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Deputy Mattie McGrath for introducing this Bill. The issue of Irish Water and the unjust water tax has not gone away, nor will it. As much as the Government would like to sweep its failures and those of Irish Water under the carpet, the people are not going to let that happen, and there are failures. The Government has come under significant public pressure on the issue of water...

Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move:That Dáil Éireann shall consider the Report of the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions entitled 'Report on the extension of the remit of the Ombudsman to cover all aspects and bodies associated with the Direct Provision System (DPS) and the extension of the remit of Freedom of Information to cover all aspects and bodies associated with the DPS including...

Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: First, I acknowledge the genuine personal commitment of the Minister of State to equality and how he applies it to his work. In respect of the initial speech, I appreciate that the Department would want to respond to a number of the recommendations in the report and give its perspective. This is, of course, its right. The responses show disputes between the interpretation of current...

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Deputies Coppinger, Higgins and Paul Murphy for introducing this important legislation. I welcome that the Government has indicated support for it. Like previous speakers, I appeal that it should not languish, awaiting Committee Stage. The Government has supported many Bills to proceed to Committee Stage, but they go to Room 101 and make no progress. This Bill is too important to...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The documentary on RTE on Monday night was very welcome following the excellent exposé in the book Lethal Alliesby Anne Cadwallader. If the Minister has not read it, I strongly recommend that he do so. The documentary took the viewers through decades of systemic collusion between British State forces and agents of the British State. Reference has been made to republican...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The difficulty is that the British Government has never acknowledged the full extent of its role in the conflict. This was alluded to in the documentary and since then. The British Government has been dragged kicking and screaming - sometimes after decades of investigation - into acknowledging some incidents where it was responsible. That is the missing element. It has been the missing...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: At the same time every year, these motions come before the House and are opposed by Sinn Féin. Every year, we request that proper time be allocated to a debate on the motions but our requests are always denied and the motions are passed. This happens even though the legislation fundamentally undermines human rights, civil liberties and democratic life in this State. There is...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Chairman provide a copy of the list of grouped amendments?