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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance the way moneylenders can justify that a majority of their customers, who are on welfare benefits, are making loan repayments at a weekly rate of €50 or more. [42879/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that it is justifiable that a lending company that is licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland is allowed to send marketing letters to current customers whose accounts are in arrears of more than €200. [42880/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that all moneylending companies that use so-called self-employed agents should be made to make immediate disclosure to the Revenue Commissioners, providing full details of the agent, that is, PPS number, name, address and start date. [42881/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason agents of moneylending companies are not vetted by the authorities. [42882/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland offers audit training programmes for agents of moneylending companies. [42884/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has conducted a full audit on all moneylending companies to check on illegal or bad practices. [42883/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Inspectorate Reports (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 297. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the crime investigation report from the Garda Inspectorate. [42909/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the reason divisional budgets do not exist across the different board/ trust areas; the way managers of each board/ trust area may allocate their funds appropriately across different treatment areas that is cancer, mental health and so on [42984/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 374. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether 6.1% of the overall health budget is adequate for mental health as the percentage health spend in England, Wales and Scotland in 2012-2013 was between 9.1-11.9% and in the North of Ireland was 6.9%. [42985/14]

Report of Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Motion (7 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State for his comments and look forward to working with him and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly on implementing as many of the recommendations as possible. As I noted in the foreword to this report the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, following the Seanad referendum expressed concern...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why are the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste always allowed to waffle on all the time?

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You will be looking for a job yourself soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To finalise the matter, after today, in terms of your experience to date and in terms of your team, we would appreciate a follow-up submission from the ombudsman identifying areas where it would be very useful to have strengthened powers to strengthen the role of the office and to ensure it can fulfil as much as possible its responsibilities. That goes for all the ombusdmen. The Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If any other additional recommendations occur to the Ombudsman, he should feel free to draw them to the committee's attention. This process will continue for quite a number of months more. I thank the ombudsman and his senior colleague, Mr. O'Neill for coming in today. It is greatly appreciated by our committee in terms of our own deliberations. I propose that the joint committee stand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a number of questions for the Ombudsman for Defence, beginning with the question that Senator O'Keeffe wanted to deal with earlier on. The Ombudsman for Defence made the point that there is an appeal mechanism in terms of the overall Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, but within Mr. McCourt's own office there is no appeal mechanism. Is that something he feels should be remedied, or does he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Mr. McCourt has made the point that his recommendations are not binding, as is the case with most of the other ombudsmen. In general, are his recommendations implemented?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One of the key responsibilities that our committee sees for itself is ensuring that the recommendations of the ombudsman are implemented - that they are seen to have teeth. If they are not implemented, we would see it as our role to challenge the Minister or Department as to why not. If Mr. McCourt comes across instances in which he feels that his recommendation should have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just to make that invitation. Our committee in particular takes its responsibilities very seriously and we do not second guess any decision of any ombudsman's office. They are independent and it is not our role to do that. We want to strengthen the independence and impact of the ombudsmen by following up on any recommendations that have not been implemented with Government. We have done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the ombudsman and will open up proceedings to members for questions.