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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (28 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality given the serious allegations concerning misconduct by An Garda Síochána and inadequacies surrounding a case (details supplied), and given the need for the probity and independence of the Independent Review Mechanism, if she will authorise publication of the report prepared in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an efibre upgrade will be rolled out at Bridgend in County Donegal, as Bridgend is designated as a second tier town by Donegal County Council, and is strategically well located on the border and on the Derry-Letterkenny gateway, with much potential for economic development and investment. [4151/16]

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I wish to share one minute of my time with Senator Conway-Walsh.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sure the Minister of State for housing and urban renewal will have watched the "Prime Time" documentary aired on 31 May 2016 that revealed the devastating consequences of a profound failure in State regulation regarding the manufacture of concrete blocks. The concrete block is the core component of the family home. Senator Coffey visited Donegal in his time as Minister of State and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The issue here is that we have had statutory instruments since 1949 and we have had building control regulations and standards right through the decades that followed. This is a profound failure in State regulation and it is staring the Minister of State in the face. I am sure he has watched the documentary and has seen for himself the impact of this, as has the former Minister of State,...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In Donegal they do not.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State will meet the cross-party delegation and will hear from them. They do not accept-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State can amend the terms of reference to ensure the job is done properly.

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: "That Senator Máire Devine be elected Leas-Chathaoirleach." Máire has been an elected councillor since 2011 and has worked diligently for her constituents in the south Dublin area for many years. Before being elected as a public representative, as a psychiatric nurse she had years of sterling commitment in the area of psychiatric care and was a champion of people who were...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Irrespective of the outcome of this afternoon's debate on the Sinn Féin Private Members' motion, a significant issue arises with regard to brown bins. Under the law, households located in urban conglomerations with a population of more than 1,500 have been required to separate waste since July 2015. As such, all households in such locations have been required for the past year to have...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second the motion. In the past few weeks there has been public discourse after it emerged that many of the waste collection companies would double or treble the cost of waste disposal services. That did not come from nowhere; it did not come from left field. Let us remember that the legislation was deferred for an entire year. I would have thought, therefore, that the then Minister,...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fianna Fáil councillors across the State are wringing their hands and telling people this is terrible but there is nothing they can do about this awful and unfair mess. However, when a motion is tabled and the Seanad is in a position to exercise one of the few powers that would make it relevant, capture the imagination of citizens and act in their interests, it transpires that we will...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This issue is a complete mess. Why do households in some parts of the State pay between €5 and €7 to have a bin of recycled waste collected, while in others collection of the green bin is free of charge? Why are recyclable products being incinerated when people believe they are being recycled? The Minister knows he should have withdrawn the statutory instrument. We have...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fianna Fáil is so cynical. Cynicism drips off that party.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I know it - SI 81.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister should check the instrument.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order. I just want to correct the record. The Minister said-----

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, will you just hear me out? He made a direct reference that this statutory instrument has no bearing on the collection of brown bins.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I quote the actual part of the statutory instrument that clearly gives effect to legislation? The Minister needs to correct the record.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking the Minister to correct the record.