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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...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will deal with it in a supplementary.

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Returning to the occasion to which I referred, Mr. Farrell SC stated that the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation had been swamped since 2011 and that of the cases it had reached only one in ten ended in prosecution. Mr. Ian Drennan, at the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, has spoken about having only one forensic accountant when there was need for at least five. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the mediation Bill 2012 will be introduced in Dáil Éireann. [6983/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to overhaul the Coroner Service's legislation currently in place in this State. [6982/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to meet with the Garda Representative Association to discuss the pay of the new members of An Garda Síochána who are currently training in Templemore Garda College. [6985/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 32. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the work of the independent panel of counsel reviewing allegations of Garda malpractice; and when its recommendations are due. [6986/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have high medical and / or care needs, while they are fighting cancer, and attending children's wards, in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal and Sligo Regional Hospital [7460/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: (Resumed) Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (18 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but I have just been advised by the broadcast section that someone has a mobile telephone close to a microphone and it is causing interference. Could everyone check their telephones to make sure they are fully turned off? It is important that we do not interfere with broadcasting. I apologise for interrupting the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: (Resumed) Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (18 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will take those questions first and the Senator can come back in later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: (Resumed) Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (18 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not want to have four or five questions put to the Minister. We will get a response first to the three questions asked. The Senator asked the Minister's view on neutrality-----