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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation Standards (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 219. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an annual breakdown for the years 2010 to 2014 and 2015 to date, of the number of cases filed against the State seeking damages over slopping out; the number of cases settled in each year; and the number settled at a cost to the State. [16595/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 220. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of inspections of language schools and schools for international students carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau in each year from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and the number of suspensions or closures that have resulted from these inspections. [16596/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 279. To ask the Minister for Health when staff at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, who lost expensive personal belongings in the flooding at the hospital in July 2013 and who have officially submitted compensation claims, will be compensated. [16453/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are sitting as a joint sub-committee on petitions. We will record the decisions of the committee. The committee has received a total of 136 petitions to date since the launch of the petitions system. Some 124 of those petitions have been brought before us on at least one occasion. Today, we will discuss nine petitions. The first petition is No. P00018/14, in respect of Mr. James...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just to clarify, I had submitted this amendment and others at earlier Stages of the Bill regarding the allocation of fees to the Bar Council and the Law Society. This amendment emanated from the Bar Council. Its concern was that the levies applied would reflect the number of cases. If many complaints are made against solicitors, the Law Society would deal with that pro rataand then the Bar...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am speaking about amendment No. 53a.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendment No. 53 has been ruled out of order but amendment No. 53ais almost identical. The cost to the Exchequer is almost identical.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Am I not entitled to raise the case where one amendment is ruled out of order and an identical one, submitted afterwards, is accepted? The Acting Chairman can have a look for himself.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Whoever checks these things has made a clerical error, because Amendments Nos. 53 and 53aare identical. I want someone in the Bills Office to issue me with clarification on why one was ruled out of order and the other was accepted for tabling. I am pleased that the amendment proposed by Deputy Catherine Murphy has been accepted, but mine should also have been accepted.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No. I was cut off the by Leas-Cheann Comhairle and he agreed I could make further comments. I was speaking about multidisciplinary practices.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not have much more to say and I can guarantee we will not be here for much longer. Earlier when the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, was in the Chamber, I stated I was disappointed that the idea of multidisciplinary practices, which emerging international best practice tells us is not the way to go, was not being scrapped. It was the previous Minister's brainchild and there is no...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There has been a fair degree of change in the area of multidisciplinary practices since Deputy Alan Shatter was Minister. He was gung-ho about them, even though it was pointed out to him that they could create an elitist approach to accessing law. Some of the more talented barristers would be sucked up into one building, and there would be issues of oversight, with accountants, solicitors...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I come back when the Minister responds?

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like Deputy Collins, I welcome the fact that the Government has addressed the concerns we had through amendments Nos. 42 and 43. I will set out a relevant example for amendment No. 44. Not long ago, the former Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, Brian Purcell, came before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. He restrained himself from...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 44:In page 29, to delete lines 4 to 8.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am happy to withdraw amendments Nos. 39 and 41 as I accept the points made about the independence of the authority. What the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, stated about amendment No. 40 is encouraging. Of course, there will be human resources challenges, pensions issues and such changes, but undoubtedly there would be a desire on the part of the Law Society and the Bar Council...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not asking that it be discussed in the Seanad. I am asking that the Minister have an amendment before the Seanad that deals with this issue.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 39:In page 26, line 21, after "may" where it firstly occurs to insert ", after consultation with the professional bodies,".These amendments arise out of previous discussions during earlier Stages of the Bill. As the Minister of State will be aware, there are staff in the Law Society of Ireland and the Bar Counsel who are already dealing with complaints mechanisms and are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (22 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 27 May 2014, the contacts he has had with the Mica Action Group in County Donegal; if consideration will be given to the establishment of a redress scheme similar to that established under the auspices of the Pyrite Resolution Board; and if he will make a statement on the...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One of the issues this Bill was supposed to deal with - in which it has not succeeded, although amendments have been made - was the cost of accessing justice for citizens. One of the challenges for the legal fraternity in terms of its reputation is to look increasingly at its role as an advocate for citizens in terms of their rights and to ensure there is affordable access to the legal...