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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.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have agreed to the Senator's proposal to invite submissions from the relevant disability sectors and stakeholders and to invite the Minister to deal with our position that the situation needs to be changed. The next petition is No. P00032/13 from Mr. Richard Daly who calls on the Government to consider introducing a supplementary primary education tax, payable by non-EU nationals...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The next item for discussion is the role and remit of the ombudsman. We will have a discussion with the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, Mr. Tony McCourt, who is accompanied by his senior colleague, Mr. Brian O'Neill. I remind everyone to ensure their mobile phones are switched off. We are very pleased to welcome the ombudsman here today. He will make a presentation on his role and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee will now sit in public session in its capacity as the Joint Sub-committee on Public Petitions to record the decisions of the committee. We have deliberated on a number of petitions before us today. We will take the first two petitions together - petition No. P00014/13 from Ursula Witmer on the medical criteria for the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions)...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Did the Taoiseach listen to the crowds last Saturday?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We want clarity.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change the current practice of ending domiciliary care allowance for parents of children with systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis once those children are 16 years old; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties experienced by families that do not wish to expose their children to the stress of appearing before a panel to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce or amend legislation in order that judges have the full range of options available to them including community service when sentencing persons from another legal jurisdiction. [41030/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 597. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn the considerable inconvenience and stress caused to the parents of children with arthritis living throughout the State by the small number of paediatric rheumatologists here and the failure by the Health Service Executive to ensure that they provide regular mobile clinics at regional hospitals [41033/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if a third rheumatology consultant will be appointed by the Health Service Executive to service those suffering from arthritis in the north west region; if a person specialising in juvenile or paediatric rheumatology will be appointed to support parents of children with arthritis in the region [41034/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the resources and measures that will be or have been put in place to provide counselling and other support services to assist families and the wider community to deal with the trauma of the recent tragic deaths of persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; the steps he will take to advise and inform the local community of the supports that are available....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1019. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that Irish Water is holding households responsible for the maintenance for any water pipe work up to 225mm from the boundary of their property and further; his further views of the potentially serious financial implications of this policy for householders. [41426/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will Ms Kennedy e-mail all the research she has referenced to us? Will she draw attention to the key points within it?