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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Equality and Fairness of State Pension: (Resumed) Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The conundrum is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Equality and Fairness of State Pension: (Resumed) Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it Mr. Whelan's view that the objective was to abolish the transition pension? Is the next step to remove it entirely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Equality and Fairness of State Pension: (Resumed) Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is Deputy Mulherin offering?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Equality and Fairness of State Pension: (Resumed) Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I think Mr. Whelan. We value his contribution to our deliberations, which are ongoing. At some stage we will make recommendations on this petition.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support Deputy Collins's amendment. Under the Act as it is now, trying to get information from the banks is like pulling teeth from a hen. The amendment seeks to ensure that the public has the full understanding of how successful the Act and the legislation are as well as ensuring that we as Oireachtas Members can see on an annual basis the issues that are emerging. We would also be...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act 2. The Principal Act is amended in section 26(2)(a) by the substitution of “€30,000” for “€20,000”.”. Whenever we dealt with the original Bill and Act, this was a significant issue and we want to raise it again....

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is acceptable to me. I will withdraw the amendment in good faith, based on what the Minister has said.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 3:In page 14, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(2) Section 110 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(a) by substituting “30 per cent” for “65 per cent”.”. This amendment deals with the crux of the issues we have with the original Bill. It concerns the bank veto. Anecdotally, we hear stories that...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As I said on Second Stage, the previous Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, predicted that 15,000 people would avail of this when the Bill was enacted but the actual figure was, I understand, around 10% of that figure. The difficulty is that the perception and the message that came from the banks in the finance committee was that they are not in the mind-set in terms of dealing with write-downs...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 5:In page 23, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following:“Report by Minister 18. Within one month of the coming into force of this Act the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a full review of the Principal Act.”. The intent of the amendment is clear. We are anxious to see a full review of the Act laid before the Houses of the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Minister saying that Report Stage is a number of weeks away but she will have an opportunity to examine the lessons that emerge from the review and potentially table additional amendments on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister provide us with a copy of the findings of the review?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We know all of that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (10 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 333. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of gardaí in the force for each year from 2007 to 2015 to date; the number of gardaí in the Dublin metropolitan area in the same period; the number of recruits graduating from Templemore in the same period; and the number of gardaí expected to graduate from Templemore during the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (10 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on amending the Road Traffic Act or introducing new legislation to allow gardaí apprehend those driving quads or scramblers illegally in public parks. [5563/15]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 23:In page 5, line 35, to delete "as soon as practicable" and substitute "within thirty days".

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The term "As soon as practicable" does not deliver what we want here. I was chairing the public oversight committee when the Garda Ombudsman Commissioners came before us to speak to their seven- or eight-page summary of the report into the Kieran Boylan affair. I appreciate that protocols are in place and that levels of co-operation have improved, but what they revealed then was disturbing....

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 21:In page 5, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “9. The Ombudsman Commission may, if the investigation so requires, access the PULSE system.”.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will wait until we have heard from the Minister.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 9:In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 96(4) of Principal Act 5. Section 96(4) of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):“(4) A person may not be required under subsection (1)(a) or (3)(a) to provide any information, document or thing that is designated, or...