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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...

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]

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....

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise for being a little late. The schedule has changed very quickly. Unfortunately, I must leave because I must chair the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions at 4 p.m. I must leave soon to prepare for that. One of the issues of concern is the Good Friday Agreement. It requires that there be an equivalent level of human rights protection in both parts of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 5. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to strengthen the performance of the criminal justice system in tackling white collar crime. [3044/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am revisiting an issue I first raised with the Minister in June 2014 and again in February 2015. I wish to get a sense of the Minister's plan to strengthen the performance of the criminal justice system to tackle white collar crime. Citizens have been disillusioned in recent years because they see people going to prison for not paying small fines while those who are responsible for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am mindful that what the recent Garda Inspectorate report said about the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation is very worrying. It said the GBFI was struggling to cope with the scale of the number of cases brought before it and recommended change in respect of the bureau. In 2014, Remy Farrell, SC, heavily criticised the lack of resources available to the Garda Bureau of Fraud...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I cannot think of any other state in the world that was literally bankrupted by the behaviour of white collar corruption and criminality, where the people were so outraged, and where funding was subsequently cut to the very bodies which are at the front line and supposed to be tackling that. In 2014, three years into the Government's term of office, Remy Farrell, one of the most eminent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is the Garda Inspectorate's press release on the official launch of the Changing Policing in Ireland report. It states:A large number of them have not yet been fully implemented and therefore the envisaged outcomes have not been realised. The Inspectorate is of the opinion that many of the policing issues that resulted in inquiries, tribunals and government reports could have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Without a doubt, one of the key issues is under-investment. This Government has not invested in the past five years. Hopefully, that will change in the next period. There are also massive structural issues in An Garda Síochána. Many of the challenges we face - "challenge" has been a kind word in recent years - are down to mismanagement and our front-line gardaí being failed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the commentary in the Garda Síochána Inspectorate's report, Changing Policing in Ireland, that there has been a repeated failure by An Garda Síochána to implement recommendations for change from its previous reports and from other reviews and inquiries; the actions she is taking to ensure the recommendations in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question pertains to the Garda Inspectorate report, Changing Policing in Ireland. It seeks to get a sense from the Minister as to how she intends to implement the recommendations considering the highly worrying commentary by the Garda Inspectorate that many recommendations it has put forward in previous reports and from other investigations and inquiries simply have not been implemented....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to establish an independent inquiry into the actions of all relevant State agencies related to the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied); and if she is aware of the deep distress caused to the family of the person in their experience with the independent review mechanism. [3043/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Communications Surveillance (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that her proposed review of legislation will ensure the inclusion of independent judicial oversight over applications for data access or for ongoing surveillance by the relevant authorities, given that almost 62,000 applications for access to landline, mobile telephone and Internet data were made to companies providing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Migrant Integration (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to ensure the regularisation of undocumented migrants in the State through a fair and pragmatic system as outlined by the Migrant Rights Centre in a presentation to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality in 2015. [3045/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 28. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to facilitate an appeals process to the independent review mechanism that has examined allegations of malpractice by An Garda Síochána. [3041/16]

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is the same language: "Get on with it".

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 296. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality while understanding the need for the State to have powers of surveillance in combating various types of crime, how many regulations have been made under section 10(3) of the Criminal Justice Surveillance Act 2009 given the important safeguards for the right to privacy recognised by the European Court of Human Rights, particularly in notifying...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 297. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why she did not request the exhumation of a deceased person (details supplied); if she will issue an exhumation order; if she will request an independent inquiry into the serious allegations made against An Garda Síochána regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter....