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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 311. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Syrian origin or claiming to be of Syrian origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reason in each case, by age, by gender by country to which they were returned, in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45235/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 312. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Eritrean origin or claiming to be of Eritrean origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reason in each case, by age, by gender of the persons refused, by country to which they were returned, in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45236/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 313. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Afghan origin or claiming to be of Afghan origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reasons in each case, by age, by gender of the persons refused, by the country to which they were returned, in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45237/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 314. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Iranian origin or claiming to be of Iranian origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reason in each case, by age, by gender of the persons refused, by country to which they were returned; in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45238/15]

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Section 73 is on page 75.

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 6:In page 10, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:““separated child” means a child under the age of 18, who is outside his or her country of nationality or, if a stateless person, outside his or her country of habitual residence and who is separated from both parents, or from his or her previous legal or customary caregiver;”....

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have pointed out that the amendment we have put before the House is more in line with the Separated Children in Europe programme and the UNHCR's definition. On the advice the Minister of State is getting from departmental officials on this issue, why would they not accept an amendment that is more in line with the definition these organisations use?

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “ “stateless person” means a person who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law;”. This amendment is linked to the previous one and adds a definition that a "stateless person" means a person who is not considered as a national by any...

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(4) The Minister may provide for regulations on Reception Conditions and Facilities for persons subject to this Act.”. This amendment links direct provision to the Bill. The Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions considered the issue of direct provision over a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Welfare of Ex-Service Personnel: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise that I must leave in about ten minutes but I wanted to be here to listen to the presentations. I wish to acknowledge the fact that this is an important and historical occasion because it is the first time that both organisations have presented to the Oireachtas. I want to extend the immense gratitude of the Irish people to the members of the Defence Forces who have served at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Welfare of Ex-Service Personnel: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am disappointed by the amount of funding that ONE has received from some of the local authorities and, as a Donegal man, I shall make representations to Donegal County Council. The organisation has acknowledged that the councils provided funding for capital building projects and to get the houses under way. Why have the councils not built in a reasonable allocation in their housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Welfare of Ex-Service Personnel: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, Mr. O'Connor has covered all of my queries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The report made for alarming and depressing reading. I accept that that was not their intention - certainly not the depressing part of it - because the report is solution-oriented. I merely refer to the failure to implement previous recommendations. I refer to the fixed-charge notice or penalty points report and the crime investigation report in which the Garda Inspectorate outlined a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To summarise, essentially, Ms Fisher is saying the Department of Justice and Equality is to oversee the various bodies - the Garda Inspector, the Garda professional standards unit, GPSU, the Garda Ombudsman and the new policing authority - to ensure that they are complementing and, collectively, overseeing the process of change as best they can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms Fisher for that. My second question relates to the worrying fact that the Garda bureau of fraud investigation has no cyber-crime unit, and the Garda Inspectorate, in a previous report, recommended a new system replacing the PULSE system. The inspectorate acknowledges that such a new system is subject to available resources, but we understand that hundreds of millions of euro...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The failure to implement previous recommendations has been mentioned. One of the chapters in the report on the fixed charge processing system dealt with cancellation of fixed charge notices and a number of recommendations were made. I am interested in the area of statutory exemption for emergency vehicles. My understanding is that it applies to members of the fire service, ambulance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In January of this year, the Garda professional standards unit, GPSU, finalised a report on penalty points, which had been analysed, and statistical breakdowns were provided. There were hundreds of cancellations over the course of a year in respect of statutory exemptions and emergency vehicles. Would it not be prudent to audit these statutory exemptions? It would not be a huge amount of...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: An issue has been brought to my attention by some of the stakeholders on facilitating the move of the decision support service to the Mental Health Commission. A number of NGOs advocate that a DSS should be set up as an independent statutory body with reporting responsibilities to the Department of Justice and Equality. Stakeholders have advised me they were not consulted about this move...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The organisations that have concerns about this are Tallaght Trialogue and Recovery Experts by Experience. I understand that the Centre for Disability, Law and Policy in NUI Galway, the National Disability Service and Inclusion Ireland have advocated for an independent statutory body. I listened to what the Minister of State said and I understand this Government's policy of amalgamation of...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The policing authority is not self-financing.