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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We can clarify that at a later date. It would be a few weeks before we could expect the Secretary General to be before us again. We will proceed with the Senator's questioning at this point and see where we might get.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are you referring to the public sector in general, Deputy, or those that are specific to the Department of Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Thank you. On behalf of the committee I thank Dr. McLoughlin, Ms Fitzpatrick, Ms Duffy and their colleagues for appearing before the committee today and for being generous with their time. It was more than we anticipated. We will suspend the meeting to allow our next guests to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses for their patience. I welcome Mr. Michael McCabe, chairman of the Centre for Independent Living, CIL, who is accompanied by Ms Natasha Lynch, his personal assistant, and Mr. Gary Lee, the centre's chief executive. I invite them to make their contributions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sorry to interrupt but there is a vote in the Dáil. The witnesses require another five or ten minutes to finish the presentation so should we suspend the meeting for the duration of the vote? I do not want to rush the presentation as it is important. Should we suspend for eight or nine minutes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Okay. I am sorry about this but a vote in the Dáil happens from to time and messes things up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will give it another three minutes before suspending for ten minutes. We can take it up where we left off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will suspend at this point but the witnesses can take as long as they wish for the rest of the presentation. We can then have a questions and answer session. I apologise again for the interruption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise again for the interruption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will let the Senator in first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise but I must leave. I thank all of the witnesses for their contributions today. Submissions were received from the Disability Federation of Ireland, disability rights campaigners and senior officials from the Department of Health and all committee members have copies of these. All of these submissions are in our work programme.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (7 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure a reduction in waiting times for processing of vetting applications. [12123/13]

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin welcomes this legislation which is long overdue. The inaction on this issue for so long has had a seriously negative impact on those who made mistakes in the past, paid for their non-violent crime and yet had their conviction hanging over them for the rest of their lives. Ireland is the only jurisdiction in the European Union which does not have in place appropriate...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I had hoped to have an opportunity to discuss the unemployment crisis in County Donegal with the Minister at an earlier stage last year, but his colleague, the Minister of State, took the debate on that occasion. I will take this opportunity to take the Minister through the history of the unemployment crisis in County Donegal as the crisis is not. As he will recall, the Fruit of the Loom...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (12 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned that the production of a climate change bill that does not have carbon emission targets for both 2020 and 2050 may end up, under the EU 2009, costing the state €300m in carbon credits. [12811/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (12 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Irish nationals serving IPP sentences in British prisons; and if he has discussed this matter with his British counterpart in the context of allowing these prisoners to be returned to this jurisdiction under the TERS scheme after they have served their minimum tariff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12757/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (12 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has commissioned any person within his Department to examine international best practice in policing methods that could be adopted that may reduce road traffic offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12856/13]

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Or course they have a veto.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A voice from the wilderness.