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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

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

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The list of them would be as long as my arm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (29 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are sitting as a joint sub-committee on petitions to record the decisions of the committee. The committee has received a total of 137 petitions to date since the launch of the petitions system. The secretariat has been examining them, first, to establish the admissibility of the petitions and, second, to assess how best to progress a petition for consideration by the joint sub-committee....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (29 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it agreed to close this petition? Agreed. It is open to Mr. Connolly to accept the invitation to discuss the broader issue of appointments if he wishes to do so. Petition No. P00022/14 is the need for provision to be made for the compensation of victims of uninsured aircraft operators or other third parties suffering personal injury or loss as a result of air accidents where there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (29 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it agreed to close the petition but to invite the petitioner, as Deputy Boyd Barrett suggested, to resubmit? When he does that, we will prioritise the petition because it has been in the system for a while. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will now go back into private session to deal with the report on the direct provision system from our committee.

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order, we have a situation yet again where the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform leave the Chamber before the Technical Group has a chance to respond. It is the utmost disrespect to this group of Deputies that the two Ministers leave every time they get to speak.

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Ministers do not even have the courtesy to listen. These Deputies represent a large group of people. They have a right to be heard by both Ministers.

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have not made my point. This happened at the time of the budget. It is happening again today. It is disrespectful and I am asking that it be resolved. I ask that the Chair, through the Office of the Ceann Comhairle, resolve this matter once and for all.

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is outrageous and it happens every time.

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...

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