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- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Legal Services Regulation Bill has been delayed for quite a while. When can we expect it to move forward? Section A of the legislative programme includes a courts Bill to provide, subject to certain conditions, the reporting of family and child care proceedings. When will that Bill be brought before the House? With regard to the land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill, will...
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has not been seen for a long time.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a broken record.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén céatadán d’fhoirgnimh Údarás na Gaeltachta atá ag luí folamh; an ndéanfaidh sé liosta na bhfoirgneamh sin a bhriseadh síos ar bhonn contae, agus a mhíniú cén plean atá ag an Údarás le húsáid a bhaint astu chun fostaíocht a...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to ensure that Kilmainham Mill, which is an important example of Ireland’s industrial archaeology, is transferred into public ownership; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that its proximity to Kilmainham Gaol and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham make this entire area an ideal location for the development of a...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Removal Orders (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances under which a removal order may be made against an EU citizen; if he will provide a breakdown by nationality for each of the past three years of EU citizens against whom removal orders were made; the number against whom exclusion orders were made; the number of those who were serving custodial sentences in this jurisdiction when...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Black Market: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and I agree with their recommendations. We have tried to increase taxation on packets of cigarettes and put the revenue towards the health system and the consequences of an addiction to nicotine and cigarette smoking. Huge progress has been made internationally in this battle, particularly in recent decades. This trade fundamentally undermines...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the reports from human rights organisations regarding executions and serious human rights abuses by the Malian military in the context of the impending deployment of members of the Irish Defence Forces to assist that same army. [13454/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is extraordinary that Ireland, a supposedly neutral state, would commit eight members of the Defence Forces to work in an EU-NATO operation. There have been disclosures of human rights abuses. Human Rights Watch recently reported various incidents involving the Malian army during this period, including the summary execution of 13 civilians and the disappearance of others, as well as the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I refer to the UN Security Council resolution on Libya which did not stipulate that France and Britain engage in regime change and removal, but which is what they did. It has resulted in a crisis in Syria because Russia and China will not support a Security Council resolution on Syria. I refer to long-standing UN resolutions on Israel and the West Bank settlements, yet we are not sending...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am glad Colonel Gaddafi is gone, but that country has been destroyed because of the abuse by NATO powers of a UN Security Council resolution. Every objective observer in the world agree with that assessment. Libya has been destroyed by that approach. There is no intervention in Syria because of the ridiculous behaviour of international powers.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are you in favour of regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order, are you in favour of regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just to be clear, Minister, are you saying you are in favour of regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are you saying that regime change is a policy of the Government?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let us be clear about this now.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I brought up Libya, the country of millions of citizens.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes. What is your Government's foreign affairs policy?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They should have sent another Minister here today.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need another Minister. What is your Government's policy on regime change?