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Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will support Senator Norris's Bill proceeding to Committee Stage, with the ability to deal with some of the concerns we have at that point. We cannot support any further delays.

Seanad: United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (28 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Unfortunately, this result did not come out of nowhere. For many years, people expressed concerns about the direction the EU was moving in referenda, not only in Ireland but elsewhere. The people of Ireland rejected the Nice treaty and then the European constitution was rejected by the people of France and Holland before we, in Ireland, rejected the Lisbon treaty. Again and again, people...

Seanad: United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (28 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need to have a debate about Irish unity. Senator Boyhan referred to a excellent report by the jobs committee during the previous Dáil, which examined the potential for an all-Ireland basis for business. The obvious gains economically for our public services from unity need to be debated. We need to have our say on that matter. I am not afraid of having a debate or losing that...

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.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I clearly interpreted it. The Minister has intentionally danced around this issue.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We know what the statutory instrument does. It clearly gives effect to the legislation to which he referred.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister correct the record? I can quote SI 24 of 2016.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister has misled the House on an important issue central to this debate.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister has misled the House. I will provide the reference in the statutory instrument to anyone who wants to see it. It gives effect to the collection and separation of waste for brown bins.

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister should not try to mislead the House.