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Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Six months. This morning I was told that there has been no progress. Nothing.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I know the Leader is not available tomorrow morning. However, Senator Craughwell and I have repeatedly sought a meeting with the Minister of State and we wish to have that meeting. If the Leader can undertake to arrange that meeting for any time this evening-----

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that. I will not divide the House but I wanted to make that point clear.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I remind the Leader that we were promised a meeting after Easter. He knows we were promised that meeting.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am going to take a leap of faith and accept that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----on the basis of the assurance given by the Leader, the meeting will take place by tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Leader provide an assurance that the meeting will take place within the next 24 hours?

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Within the next 24 hours.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader may have spotted a number of families standing outside the building today. They seek to raise awareness of Lyme disease. In my own county of Donegal as many as 60 persons have come forward to highlight the fact that they have been diagnosed with Lyme disease. There is resistance in the community of medical professionals to acknowledge the prevalence of Lyme disease as a real...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Could we get a meeting with the Minister?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the 1916 medals?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second Senator Conway-Walsh's proposal to amend the Order of Business. I wish to raise the issue of the history of the State's dealing with white collar crime. It is quite shocking. There were 289 Ansbacher cases and no one prosecuted and there were 3,675 DIRT bogus accounts and no one prosecuted. In regard to the HSBC scandal, 350 Irish persons held accounts amounting to €3.1...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it possible to get a meeting with the Minister of State for the four of us next week?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A meeting for the four of us Senators along with himself.

Seanad: Areas of Natural Constraint: Statements (24 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to first apologise to the Minister for being late. Parents of children with life-limiting illnesses are meeting with leaders of various political parties today and I had to be in attendance at the meeting. The Minister will appreciate why that would have kept me away until now. We need to be frank in this debate, so I will be frank. These payments were originally in Donegal and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Some of the issues I was going to raise have already been dealt with. Dr. May has worked with the Government and advised it in the past. What degree of consultation and engagement has she had with the Department on the valid issues she is raising. The Oireachtas collectively wants to ensure the greyhound industry gets a clean bill of health, that we reform it and restore confidence in it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is absolutely fine.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (23 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I raise this issue on my behalf and that of Senator Rose Conway-Walsh from Mayo because the families affected are in Donegal and Mayo. Some 18 months ago the Government of the day, which was led by the Minister of State's party, announced the establishment of an expert panel. This panel was to examine the crisis facing a large number of families in Donegal and Mayo in respect of the failure...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (23 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The language used in the Minister of State's reply does not tally with the Government's actions. How can it take the best part of five months to legally proof a document? I understand this report was concluded at the beginning of this year. It is not acceptable that five months have been spent legally proofing it. A year has passed since this document was supposed to be published....