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- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Tánaiste is an absolutely disgraceful cynic. We are defending front-line staff. They have no sympathy for the Tánaiste and her nonsense today.
- Topical Issue Matters (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not being deliberately disruptive.
- Topical Issue Matters (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There were a few minutes left-----
- Topical Issue Matters (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Now we are just sitting here, wasting our time when we could be having a debate on the Bill. There is nothing happening. The Taoiseach is not here and we are just sitting here waiting.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is actually more than that; I will make a further point in a moment.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is not what we said.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The policing authority is not self-financing. It is not true.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State is now saying the policing authority is not independent.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hold on. It is 11.58 a.m. The clock is above us.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No. On a point of order, it is 11.58 a.m. It is not 12 noon.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There it is. It is 11.59 a.m.
- Topical Issue Matters (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I suppose we will have to wait a couple of minutes now until it is 12 noon. That is why people are not here.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The policing authority is not self-financing.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Perhaps the Minister of State will tell us why it is the best fit. She has not told us thus far why the Mental Health Commission is the best fit.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State said in the Seanad that the ideal would be a stand-alone agency.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: She also said that unfortunately the Government is committed to not create any new agencies.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State is agreed that the ideal would be a stand-alone agency. As such, she is in agreement with the NGOs, civic society experts and so on. As I understand it the Minister of State has deferred that she would share their point of view.
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The only reason the Minister of State has given for the non-establishment of a stand-alone agency is that the Government is committed to not creating new agencies. As I said the Charities Regulatory Authority and proposed legal services regulatory authority-----
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The policing authority is not self-financing, so that excuse is out the window. The other bodies I mentioned are subsidised by central government. Although they raise additional revenue through levies from the charities and legal services sectors,.they do receive public money also. The Minister of State's excuse for why the DSS is not being established as a stand-alone agency is that the...
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (17 Dec 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: An issue has been brought to my attention by some of the stakeholders on facilitating the move of the decision support service to the Mental Health Commission. A number of NGOs advocate that a DSS should be set up as an independent statutory body with reporting responsibilities to the Department of Justice and Equality. Stakeholders have advised me they were not consulted about this move...