Results 4,861-4,880 of 8,978 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

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...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 10:In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 96(5) of Principal Act 5. Section 96(5) of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5):“(5) If a person required under subsection (1)(a) or (3)(a) to provide any information, document or thing claims that subsection (4)*...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 11:In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 96(6) of Principal Act 5. Section 96(6) of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (6):“(6) If the Independent Adjudicator determines that the disclosure of all or part of the information, document or thing specified in...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This was one of the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. I know that the Minister has put protocols in place. However, the amendment would put it on a statutory footing in order that there would be no doubt about GSOC's access. It is a vital component of what it will require.

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I hear the point the Minister is making about PULSE and that the system may change. However, when Bob Olson and his colleagues from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, as part of their substantial report on the crime investigation carried out over three years, they spoke about the inadequacies of...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support the amendment. As we discussed last night, a significant number of citizens do not have confidence that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has the capacity or power to fully investigate matters about which they are concerned. While certain aspects of the legislation are encouraging and welcome, the new powers conferred on GSOC are wholly inadequate. The amendment...

Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Whenever we met the ombudsman in the North as part of the Oireachtas justice committee's preparation for putting recommendations and proposals to the Minister, one of the things that became apparent is that the ombudsman in the North has the same powers as the police in terms of the Official Secrets Act and so on. In other words, it has unrestricted access. It smacks as being very arrogant...