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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am trying to anticipate any objection. Is there any objection to that proposal on security grounds? If so, one could put in place an alternative plan which is an identifying number, such as the numbers assigned to members of An Garda Síochána, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it fair to say the committee agrees with the principle of an identification badge but that its implementation should allow for flexibility to reflect the concerns we have heard expressed today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are we agreed that the best option might be to give a first name and a number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes. We are agreed there should be some flexibility in how it is dealt with as long as the principle is observed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Before we conclude, the committee agrees to correspond with the Department to get its response to the issues raised by the witnesses and to ask it what it is being done to address them. We also reserve the right to take further action when we get that response from the Department. I thank the witnesses for coming in today, we greatly appreciate this interaction and in going through your...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Undocumented Migrants Living in Ireland: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses for the presentations and, in particular, Mr. Montenegro. I listened to the piece on Newstalk this morning and I found it very moving and I have now also heard his evidence here today. We often hear about the opening of floodgates and huge numbers coming in. If Irish people with concerns about this heard the testimony of Mr. Montenegro they would realise that it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Undocumented Migrants Living in Ireland: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What stands out to me in the research carried out is that almost 90% of the interviewees are working and that 80% have been here more than five years. I raise these questions because of misconceptions which exist in terms of the profile of the people and the families who are here. They are already making a huge economic contribution. They are in our schools and have hopes and dreams and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Undocumented Migrants Living in Ireland: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have all heard of the undocumented Irish in the United States having to keep their heads down and having to keep away from the authorities. There is a constant fear. One of the things which struck me about the presentation was that women who are victims of domestic violence and crime could be fearful of going to An Garda Síochána because it would bring them to the attention of...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am very happy to see the much anticipated and long-awaited Children and Family Relationships Bill reach the floor of the House today. I am only sorry it has taken so long to get here. As we all know, this Bill is the biggest change to family law in the State's history, finally taking account of the diversity of modern Irish families, and this can only be celebrated. The reality of an...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Health and Safety (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the concerns of staff in her Department of exposure to asbestos due to renovation works at the offices at High Road, Letterkenny, County Donegal. [7833/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when funding will be provided for the completion of the breakwater at Greencastle, County Donegal. [7670/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of patients referred to Letterkenny General Hospital from BreastCheck in County Donegal for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. [7664/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of breast cancer-related surgeries carried out in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal in the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. [7665/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 398. To ask the Minister for Health the cross-Border options that have been examined to enable the appointment of a second breast cancer surgeon at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, to ensure the long-term sustainability of the service. [7666/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to ensure a permanent consultant urologist is appointed to Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal as soon as possible; and if he will revisit the offer from Co-operation and Working Together to fund a second consultant urologist at Letterkenny General Hospital. [7667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 448. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place by the Saolta University Health Care Group to recruit a second laparoscopic colorectal surgeon to work at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal [7942/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 488. To ask the Minister for Health his views on utilising the services of fire fighters, employed full-time or on a part-time retainer, across the State, in their capacity as trained emergency-first responders, as a back-up to the ambulance service, where there is a possibility that the ambulance on call, cannot respond to an emergency, within an acceptable timeframe. [8219/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Resolution Board Expenditure (24 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government from where the pyrite remediation scheme draws its funding and the number of households that have applied for funding to date. [7951/15]

Other Questions: Spent Convictions Legislation (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current delay in completing Report Stage of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012. [6984/15]

Other Questions: Spent Convictions Legislation (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is over a year since the spent convictions Bill was to be brought back for Report Stage. The UK Court of Appeal case the Minister referred to as delaying it was upheld by the Supreme Court in the United Kngdom over six months ago. She will be aware that Deputies and Senators are repeatedly getting representations from people who a long time ago were involved in some misdemeanour that is...