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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (7 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 365. To ask the Minister for Health his role, if any, in developing suicide prevention strategies among Irish emigrants in the United Kingdom; and his future plans in this regard. [27346/15]
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Government does not give a damn. They are hypocrites.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is that a voice in the wilderness over there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (1 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have had a chance to deliberate on all the petitions before us in private session and will now read our decisions into the record. The first petition, No. P00008/14, in the name of Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, concerns public access to the Seanad and Dáil Galleries. The petitioner is arguing that the public should be able to gain access to the Houses without sponsorship from a Member of...
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not seeking to interfere. It is a general Bill.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not specific to a case.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It concerns the people's decision being decided upon quickly one way or the other.
- White Paper on Defence: Statements (30 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I take this opportunity to welcome the news tonight of the appointment of Rear Admiral Mark Mellett as chief of staff of the Defence Forces. It was my pleasure to join the Oireachtas justice committee when we were hosted at Haulbowline. We viewed the facilities and learned about the exciting plans for the Naval Service. We also had the opportunity to look at the Irish maritime energy...
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have lost count of how many times I have had to come in here to challenge galling cutbacks that this Government seems content to introduce. It does not get any easier to watch Fine Gael and the Labour Party implementing such savage cuts. In fact, it gets harder because as the reality of what the Government decides on paper in here comes knocking on the doors of ordinary families across...
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
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- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
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- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's challenge. Question No. 11 is in my name but I am happy to waive it to speak on this question.
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that. I will be very brief.
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support 100% the issues raised by Deputy Clare Daly. How long are we going to do business with the military apparatus of the Israeli state, considering that 5% of Palestinian land remains in the hands of the Palestinians? The Oslo court is in tatters. The settlements continue. Jerusalem is-----
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is shameful that this type of apparatus is-----
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Get it from somebody else.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Security Strategy (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has read the European Commission's communication on the European security agenda; if he held discussions with the Taoiseach ahead of the next European Council meeting, which takes place on 25 June 2015, considering that the Council will discuss the security challenges facing the European Union and the European security agenda at that meeting; and if he...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Security Strategy (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question relates to the meeting today of the European Council which will include discussion on the EU's security strategy. This meeting takes place against the background of what is happening in the Mediterranean and in Ukraine. There are real concerns, in particular, about the military build-up by EU and NATO on one side of Ukraine and by the Russians on the other side, and the approach...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Security Strategy (25 Jun 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am always concerned when I hear about common security and defence policies at EU level. We proclaim ourselves to be a neutral state, but I do not see a strategy or actions from the Government to support that assertion. For example, Fine Gael's four MEPs voted in favour of a European Parliament report which advocated possible military action in the Black Sea basin following the annexation...