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- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I trust the Taoiseach will address the investment issues I have raised and also the lack of leadership that has been shown, not only at Government level but also at local level across the State. I have one more request to make of the Taoiseach today. For too long there has been a wall of distrust between the settled and Traveller communities in this State. Yesterday, some local...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Since last weekend's tragedy at Carrickmines, disturbing information has come to light on conditions on halting sites across the State and the lack of investment by the Government and local authorities in recent years. A tremendous article by Kitty Holland was published in The Irish Timeswhich made devastating reading. The Carrickmines site was overcrowded; 29 people were sleeping in cabins...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (14 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 63. To ask the Minister for Health if home support workers in County Donegal are being deprived of their legal entitlements to premium payments by the Health Service Executive. [35863/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (14 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support workers employed by the Health Service Executive in County Donegal who are being deprived of their legal entitlements to premium payments. [35864/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (14 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 65. To ask the Minister for Health the moneys owed to home support workers in County Donegal as a result of the Health Service Executive's refusal to honour its legal obligations regarding premium payments. [35865/15]
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Syriza got re-elected.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (13 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report from her Department on the efforts to secure a site of adequate dimensions in Buncrana in County Donegal, to facilitate a three-school campus for schools (details supplied); and if she will allocate the necessary funding for this project to proceed. [35202/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (13 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 457. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the resources Fáilte Ireland deploys in promoting tourism in County Donegal; the number and location of Fáilte Ireland offices in the county; and the number of staff employed at each office. [35198/15]
- Choice of Court (Hague Convention) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sure the Minister of State will agree Monaghan poultry and Tyrone poultry are equally beautiful and one must promote the all-Ireland economy.
- Choice of Court (Hague Convention) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Rather, the Government should follow the economic principles that underlie this Bill and should facilitate the numerous small and medium-sized enterprises on this island that need to respond quickly and effectively to business opportunities without worrying about or searching for ways around the unnecessary and inefficient transaction costs associated with partition. To summarise, Sinn...
- Choice of Court (Hague Convention) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin welcomes the Bill. It should ensure that the Hague Convention on choice of court functions smoothly in this jurisdiction. It should increase legal certainty in commercial relationships involving EU and non-EU parties. Party autonomy in a choice of forum promotes business-to-business efficiency by providing certainty and predictability in international transactions. When...
- Sentencing Council Bill 2015: First Stage (8 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a Sentencing Council and to provide for related matters. A Sentencing Council already operates in England and Wales, providing sentencing guidelines to the Judiciary. This has ensured that sentences handed out for criminal offences in their courts are consistent and accountable across the board. Concern has arisen...
- Sentencing Council Bill 2015: First Stage (8 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I get a copy of the groupings please? I apologise for this, I thought I had a copy of them but it seems I do not.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 3:In page 7, line 15, to delete “the Minister” and substitute “a member of the judiciary, as delegated by the Chief Justice”. I attended a seminar organised by the Law Society of Ireland and Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald, spoke at the event. Conor Brady is a former member...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am deeply disappointed with that response. I though the proposal put forward that day was a very good one. What we are trying to achieve here is not just another layer of accountability for the Garda Síochána but to have a policing authority which has real teeth and the power to hold An Garda Síochána to account and which can capture the imagination and, more...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My concern is that one assumes there may be an occasion the Minister would have to consult with the Attorney General. Would that advice be privileged and, therefore, not be published?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 6:In page 7, line 16, to delete “the Minister” and substitute “a member of the judiciary”.