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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...

Other Questions: Spent Convictions Legislation (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is obviously a very lengthy pipeline of justice Bills. I urge the Minister to ensure these amendments are through by the summer and that the Bill is moved through the Houses. Some of the people to whom I have spoken are the most upstanding citizens, but sometimes when one is younger, one might have got involved in a scuffle on the street and done something stupid. That should not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In April 2013, I made a speech in this House in which I referenced the presentation of Retail Excellence Ireland to the justice committee. It had brought to our attention that 12% of all diesel sold in Ireland was illegal. Nineteen oil laundries were detected and closed and 690,000 litres of oil were seized. It also made the point that almost 25% of the cigarette market is sourced from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The second message I wish to send, as a Sinn Féin spokesperson on justice, is that the people involved in these activities, despite comments from some journalists, just one or two, are not the IRA that supported the peace process and that have gone away. They are not republicans. They are criminal gangs. I am saying very clearly today, as a Sinn Féin spokesperson for justice,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 5. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the plans of An Garda Síochána and the resources available to it to tackle the criminal gangs involved in diesel laundering, cigarette smuggling and petrol stretching across the island. [7371/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This question is about the plans of An Garda Síochána and the resources available to it to tackle the criminal gangs involved in diesel laundering, cigarette smuggling and petrol stretching throughout the island.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the strategy of An Garda Síochána, working in partnership with other State agencies, and the resources available to them; if she will tackle white-collar crime, in view of the recent revelations that 350 Irish persons held 892 of the controversial HSBC accounts in Geneva, worth a total of €3.1 billion. [7170/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This question relates to a statement in the strategy of An Garda Síochána on white collar crime and follows the revelations that 350 Irish persons held 892 accounts in HSBC Geneva, at this stage, a notorious bank, worth a total of €3.1 billion.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will recall that I raised this with her not long after her appointment, in June 2014. It followed the alarming comments of Mr. Remy Farrell SC at the Bar Council's annual conference where he outlined his concerns. If I might backtrack, I re-read an article by Dr. Elaine Byrne last night. With Ansbacher, there were 289 cases of illegality and not one person has been...