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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I know that.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It can be moved. I have not withdrawn it yet

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has not been ruled out of order.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am trying to establish and assert my right to move it. In fairness, the Minister of State asked me earlier if I would withdraw a number of amendments and I indicated after some consideration that I would do so in good faith.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On what basis?

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: All right so. The acceptance of amendment No. 81 has invalidated all the other amendments in my name in this group. I was willing to withdraw them in good faith and in acknowledgment of what the Minister of State has said.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is okay.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Okay.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 143:In page 105, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(3) Save as provided in subsections (1) and (2) or otherwise expressly provided by any other provision of this Act, this Act applies to patients receiving treatment in an approved centre.”. This amendment addresses the position of patients whose treatment is regulated by Part 4 of the Mental...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State for her response. She indicated earlier that her officials will meet a number of groups, including Mental Health Reform. I will withdraw the amendment pending the outcome of those meetings. Mental Health Reform and the other relevant groups can raise the specific concerns that led to me tabling this amendment and tease out various matters with the Minister of...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 149:In page 109, line 8, to delete “5th anniversary” and substitute “2nd anniversary”. This is a self-explanatory amendment. We feel that five years is too long a period and ask for two years to be the period after which the legislation will be revisited, given the very serious matters the Bill addresses.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State and her officials for their hard work and their agreement to engage with civic society partners, those who work on the front line and are experts in these issues, in order to address any remaining concern around the Bill ahead of the Seanad debate. As was the case on Committee Stage, today's engagement has seen a significant number of amendments, which reflects...

Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: During 2013 the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality held a number of hearings on the issue of the State recognising the ethnicity of the Traveller community. In compelling testimony to the committee, Brigid Quilligan, director of the Irish Traveller Movement, stated:Through generations, where we were once a strong, proud people – and for some part still are - we have been...

Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is one point on which we can agree.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Investigations (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 496. To ask the Minister for Defence when he will publish the findings of the independent review by retired High Court judge, Mr. Justice Roderick Murphy, of the death of Private Hugh Doherty and the disappearance of Private Kevin Joyce while serving with the Irish battalion of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon on 27 April 1981, in Dyar Ntar, a village in south Lebanon. [37760/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Spent Convictions Legislation (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 560. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Spent Convictions Bill will come before Dáil Éireann for completion and enactment. [37630/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her Department's plans to upgrade Castlepollard Garda station in County Westmeath, which is in a very poor state of disrepair; and the steps she will take to increase the number of Garda personnel serving in Castlepollard, where the complement in the station has been reduced from five to two units. [37853/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Recruitment (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the reason supplementary panels are being commenced by the national recruitment service to fill nursing posts, given that panels are in place since 2012; and his views that this is fair to applicants. [37178/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients from County Donegal who have been referred to Ballykelly Hospital in County Derry in 2015 to date for MRI brain scans; the cost from Letterkenny General Hospital's budget; and why these procedures can not be carried out at Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal [37759/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (3 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 779. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has advertised for a consultant urologist for Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal to replace the previous consultant (details supplied) who resigned in February 2015. [38020/15]