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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....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 385. To ask the Minister for Health how much it has cost the Health Service Executive to relocate services from Letterkenny University Hospital to the McGinley Building at Justice Walsh Road in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the type and cost of the lease the HSE has on the building; and if the HSE intends to relocate these services back to Letterkenny University Hospital in the near future...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 388. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he has taken, or plans to take, in the context of the international agreement between the Irish and British Governments to ensure that the European Convention on Human Rights remains in force in the North should the British Government withdraw from the British convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3100/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the site selection and construction of a three-school campus for schools (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if provision will be made for a certain school at this campus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3122/16]

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What has this got to do with the question that was asked?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (20 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will provide statistical analysis of the outcome of the deliberations by the independent review panel of the hundreds of allegations of Garda Síochána malpractice. [2425/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (20 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 128. To ask the Minister for Health given a previous reassurance from him that the director would contact this Deputy to facilitate a meeting that this Deputy has repeatedly requested, why this Deputy has yet to hear from the director of the National Ambulance Service; and if it is acceptable for the National Ambulance Service to behave in this fashion. [2426/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (20 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently address the serious concerns of parents regarding a range of issues at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal including the fact that their children are being taught in the English language for five subjects; if she will urgently instigate an immediate review of the reasons enrolment levels are so low at the school...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Forensic Science Ireland (19 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 273. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date when Forensic Service Ireland will provide its new facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1855/16]