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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This issue came through as a petition. While the joint committee does not address specific cases, members thought there was a general case. In addition, through my own role as a public representative, I have had concern expressed regarding people's sense that the framework under which they were operating in hope had changed. Obviously, nobody can have expectancy in this regard, as a panel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a process issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Very well; I believe that is everything. I thank the witnesses and I really appreciated their contribution today.

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This Bill promised to ensure asylum seekers were treated with respect and humanity within a framework of more efficient immigration procedures and safeguards. While Sinn Féin welcomes these attempts, the Bill fails to achieve those aims. It fails to embed the principle of the best interests of the child and the attendant weaknesses which will potentially expose children to harm. It...

Ramming of Garda Vehicles Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise for not being present when it was my turn to be called. We support the motivations behind the Bill. In Donegal, we lost two fine officers, Gary McLoughlin and Robbie McCallion, in 2009. Killed in the line of duty, they were the victims of reckless drivers. It was devastating for our communities and, most of all, their families. It was a sad time in Donegal, so I sympathise...

Coroners Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend Deputy Clare Daly on the presentation of this important Bill, which my party will be strongly supporting. The Bill seeks to ensure maternal deaths result in automatic inquests. As it stands, maternal deaths are treated as deaths which must, as a rule or practice, be reported to the coroner. However, inquests are not automatically granted in these cases. Between 2007 and 2013,...

Prisons Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin, obviously, supports the Bill. As previously stated, the main purpose of the legislation is to facilitate the complete closure of St. Patrick’s Institution. It repeals statutory provisions that enable the courts to order the detention of offenders under the age of 21 years in St. Patrick’s Institution and deletes references to “St. Patrick’s...

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Bill is well overdue and I welcome its publication. This chaotic Government tried to kick this issue to touch for as long as it could in asking the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality to look at the issue. Both committees were emphatic that we had to move to one-year bankruptcy but still months were allowed...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Letterkenny University Hospital, which was recently renamed, is the seventh largest hospital in the State. Inpatient numbers exceed 20,000 every year. It is, therefore, a substantial hospital, serving a population of 160,000 across the county. Over the years, based on inpatient numbers, Letterkenny University Hospital has been allocated the lowest budget of any hospital in the State and the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A consultant urologist resigned in dramatic circumstances earlier in 2015. Neither Letterkenny University Hospital nor the Saolta hospital group has advertised for a replacement consultant urologist. As a result, urology is in real crisis in the hospital. I commend the Minister's officials for organising a meeting in February 2015. It was a good meeting at which solutions were tabled to...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 23:In page 9, line 15, to delete “Government” and substitute “Authority”.

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 24:In page 9, lines 17 and 18, to delete “upon the nomination of the Authority, be made by the Government” and substitute “be made by the Authority”.

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 25:In page 9, line 19, to delete "nominate" and substitute "appoint".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It frees up the canvas for a while. I move amendment No. 26:In page 9, line 20, to delete ", with the prior approval in writing of the Government,".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 27:In page 9, line 23, to delete ", with the approval of the Minister,".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 28:In page 9, line 27, to delete "nominated" and substitute "appointed".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 30:In page 9, lines 35 and 36, to delete "nomination by the Authority under subsection (1) for appointment" and substitute "appointment".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 37:In page 10, line 25, to delete "or Deputy Garda Commissioner" and substitute ", Deputy Garda commissioner, Assistant Garda Commissioner, chief superintendent or superintendent".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 38:In page 10, line 26, to delete "Government" and substitute "Authority".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendment No. 42:In page 10, to delete lines 37 to 41, and in page 11, to delete lines 1 to 23.