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Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 241:In page 65, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(7) (a) An informal decision-maker shall at all times act according to the known will and preferences of the relevant person.(b) The will and preferences will be assumed to be known to the informal decisionmaker where—(i) the informal decision-maker is aware, from personal experiences, of the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 243:In page 65, line 7, to delete “subsection (3)” and substitute “subsection (4)*”.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 250:In page 65, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“(3) Subject to subsection (4)*, nothing in section 53 shall be construed as authorising an informal decision-maker to take an action or authorise the taking of an action in respect of a relevant person which involves that person being admitted to or detained in a mental health service and/or the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 252:In page 65, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(4) Subject to subsection (3)*, nothing in section 53 shall be construed as authorising an informal decision-maker to restrain a relevant person, save where the informal decision maker reasonably believes that the relevant person lacks capacity in relation to the matter in question and such restraint...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 340:In page 76, line 35, after “possible” to insert “but no later than 6 months from the commencement of this Act”.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 342:In page 77, line 26, after “possible” to insert “but no later than 6 months from the commencement of this Act”.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 394:In page 86, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(3) Save as provided in subsections (1) and (2) or otherwise expressly provided by any other provision of this Act, this Act applies to patients receiving treatment in an approved centre.”. Section 104 addresses the position of patients whose treatment is regulated by Part 4 of the Mental...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has the Department engaged with Mental Health Reform in respect of this Bill? There seems to be significant differences between what that group and what the Minister of State is putting forward. If the Minister of State has engaged with representatives from the group, has she conveyed to them that all of the issues they are raising with our committee will be addressed in the Mental Health...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are nearly finished.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is similar to the discussion we had earlier. The Minister of State may argue that two years is too short but we argue that five years is too long, considering the serious implications of these changes. We will not reach agreement now but I ask the Minister of State to reconsider this. Maybe there is a mid-point on which we can agree, arguably three years. I will resubmit this...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 403:In page 90, line 19, to delete “5th anniversary” and substitute “2nd anniversary”.

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Deputies Coppinger, Higgins and Paul Murphy for introducing this important legislation. I welcome that the Government has indicated support for it. Like previous speakers, I appeal that it should not languish, awaiting Committee Stage. The Government has supported many Bills to proceed to Committee Stage, but they go to Room 101 and make no progress. This Bill is too important to...

Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: First, I acknowledge the genuine personal commitment of the Minister of State to equality and how he applies it to his work. In respect of the initial speech, I appreciate that the Department would want to respond to a number of the recommendations in the report and give its perspective. This is, of course, its right. The responses show disputes between the interpretation of current...

Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move:That Dáil Éireann shall consider the Report of the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions entitled 'Report on the extension of the remit of the Ombudsman to cover all aspects and bodies associated with the Direct Provision System (DPS) and the extension of the remit of Freedom of Information to cover all aspects and bodies associated with the DPS including...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Deputy Mattie McGrath for introducing this Bill. The issue of Irish Water and the unjust water tax has not gone away, nor will it. As much as the Government would like to sweep its failures and those of Irish Water under the carpet, the people are not going to let that happen, and there are failures. The Government has come under significant public pressure on the issue of water...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has the Taoiseach demanded a meeting with the Egyptian President whose name, incidentally, is el-Sisi?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Stagg should shut up.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (11 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) whose payment was cut off and who is now relying on the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for financial assistance; and the reason the deciding officer has advised the community welfare officers to refuse the person any payment or exceptional needs payments. [22708/15]

Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let me refer the Minister and the Government to the reality of this situation. Back in February of this year, it took Donegal's county registrar two hours and 29 minutes just to do a call-over of the motions list at Letterkenny courthouse. Two hours and 29 minutes. That day, there were some 271 people facing repossession in just one court sitting in a Donegal court. The people affected by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland (10 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the two Chairmen for facilitating a rare and very welcome joint meeting of committees. I will make a very brief commentary, because Deputy Pringle and I are Deputies for Donegal and all the public representatives in the county have huge admiration for the work of Pro-Social Drivers. I am from the Inishowen peninsula. As mayor of my home town of Buncrana, I had to comment on a road...