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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 488. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the time frame for the enactment of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013; if she will identify a budget for same; if she will consider establishing an interim office of the public guardian to prepare for the commencement of this legislation. [20110/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Programme Review (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 489. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made by the national disability stakeholders monitoring group in establishing Departmental consultation committees; the Departments that have established a committee; when each committee last met; and plans to meet again. [20111/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (26 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 501. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow will receive a reply from her Department to correspondence alleging the person is a victim of legal malpractice. [20362/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend Deputies Pringle and Healy on this Private Members' Bill. Sinn Féin supports the proposed amendment to the Constitution. A total of 85% of the members of the Constitutional Convention voted in favour of amending the Constitution to strengthen the protection of economic, social and cultural rights, and a majority of the convention voted for a constitutional provision along the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (19 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of relocating her Department staff in Letterkenny, County Donegal, from their High Road office to the Oliver Plunkett Road office, due to the discovery of asbestos material during renovations at the High Road office; and when the High Road office will be open to the public. [19475/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (19 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 430. 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, 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. [19476/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are sitting as a joint sub-committee on petitions to record the decisions of the committee. The joint sub-committee has received a total of 138 petitions to date since the launch of the petitions system. The secretariat has been examining them to establish their admissibility and how best to progress them for consideration by the joint sub-committee. Up to 127 of the petitions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will invite the Minister and his senior officials to attend the committee as real issues have been brought to our attention which need to be addressed. After that, we will finalise our deliberations with a report and some recommendations. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Absolutely. It is one of those cross-over issues but the Minister for Finance is ultimately responsible.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “Transfer of data outside jurisdiction 12. Data may not be transferred to another jurisdiction for the purposes of it being used against an individual who has already stood trial and been acquitted in this jurisdiction.”. I raised this matter on Second Stage and referenced the case of Frank...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Frank McBrearty is a friend of mine and he would have no objection to me raising the issue. Even though he has been convicted of no charge, he was detained. In the case of anyone who has stood trial and been acquitted, we need to be careful about transfer of data and how the legislation applies. We may have data and details of citizens within the State and another jurisdiction may have a...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My understanding is that a Bill related to the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act went through the Seanad recently. Is something happening in the Seanad with that Bill?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (13 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is advising me that it is the more appropriate Bill for me to amend. I reserve the right to table the amendment on Report Stage.

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Bill before us amends the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 by creating three new offences in order to give effect to two Council Framework Decisions from 2008 and 2002. These offences, as we all know, are public provocation to commit a terrorist offence; recruitment for terrorism and training for terrorism. I and my party broadly support this Bill but we have some concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (7 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assure parents of children at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal that they will not lose a teacher at this school; if she will support their case that the enrolment falls just two pupils short of the 115-pupil threshold required to retain the current team of five teachers. [17929/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Authority Establishment (6 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 235. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of submissions that were received during the public consultation, on proposals for the new Policing Authority; and her plans to publish these submissions. [17204/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (6 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 236. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the call by the west Galway coroner (details supplied) for the amendment of the public order Acts to allow gardaí to detain persons for their own safety, and for the provision of defibrillators in all stations, following a recent death; and her plans to amend the Act. [17212/15]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it going to be independent?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Have any Labour Party TDs ever used parliamentary privilege?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has any Labour Party TD ever used parliamentary privilege?