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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Perhaps Mr. Tyndall could respond to the questions already outlined and then Deputy Boyd Barrett can ask further questions. There is a lot to deal with in what has been asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In terms of the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant does Mr. Tyndall believe they should be replaced by a new scheme or by amendment to existing legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee will pursue that matter. The previous Secretary General, Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin, appeared before the committee in private session to go through it in detail. No doubt we will correspond with the new Secretary General soon if there is no delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I went through the casebook last night. It is a good innovation and gives a flavour of the issues that arise, particularly where there are numerous examples of the same issue. The pdf version is available for members. Senator O'Keeffe indicated first, but I will ask a question before opening the floor to members. It relates to the standard approach to making complaints. From time to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The range of public bodies under the Ombudsman's jurisdiction was extended significantly in recent times. The office has probably already done this, but is there a way of examining those bodies' standard rejection letters and suggesting what should be included in same, for example, signposting people directly to the Ombudsman? Every citizen who is refused something should have a right to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am pleased to welcome the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, who will make a presentation on the role and remit of the Office of the Ombudsman and the challenges facing his organisation. Mr. Tyndall is accompanied by Ms Bernadette McNally, director general of the Office of the Ombudsman. I thank them for forwarding their presentation, which has been circulated to members. Mr. Tyndall, who was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: The Benefits of e-Conveyancing: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am concerned about the word "never". How can one guarantee the citizen, in the unlikely event of a cyber attack and breakthrough by an anonymous organisation, that there is some type of paper trail? I shall return to my earlier point. I appreciate that the citizen does not use the technology. How can the organisation reassure us? I use credit cards for transactions and online...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: The Benefits of e-Conveyancing: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What I welcome about this is the levels of efficiency. It has been a protracted process, it is an archaic system and we want to modernise it. The concerns include cyber attacks and data protection. Breaches would be devastating. I want to get more of a sense of the lessons to be learned from the other common law jurisdictions which have implemented this. Without a paper trail, what...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the Minister of State's statements on this subject since he took office. I referenced them last week during Question Time with the Minister. I must also put on the record again the sheer frustration we felt when we raised the matter with the previous Minister, Deputy Shatter, over the past three years. Both in this Chamber and in committee rooms, he repeatedly defended this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (30 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the following information in tabular form: grant assistance from his Department for investment in piers and harbours in County Donegal for the years 2006 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014. [36677/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (30 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to allocate funding to enable the completion of the breakwater at Greencastle harbour, County Donegal. [36678/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (30 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 287. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will appraise herself of the ongoing spate of criminal vandalism, arson, and break-ins in Carndonagh, County Donegal; if she will request that the Garda superintendent for the Buncrana district covering Carndonagh will meet with local county councillors, as requested, to hear their serious concerns and reassure them as to the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (30 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 293. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will appoint new members to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal in order that the tribunal may more speedily assess applications. [36938/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if the reported costs of €110,000 every 13 weeks to recruit agency consultants to Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, were taken from the hospital's annual budget; and the action he proposes to take to avoid this additional cost in the future. [36549/14]

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is the only place we cannot do that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a farce.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is there no instruction to the Labour Party members on how to vote? Is it a free vote?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like Deputy McConalogue, I am not a committee member so I thank the Chairman for letting me a contribution. An excellent and constructive proposal was made by Ms Margey about dedicated Executive officers and representatives of the Departments of Transport, Tourism and Sport and Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister linking directly with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the delegates for their presentation. For those of us who live in and represent the north west it is frustrating to look at a map showing the motorways going from Dublin to Belfast, Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford. There are rail and air connections to most of those locations. However, there are no connections – rail, motorway or air – linking the fourth largest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (25 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 208. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the current system whereby a patient's medical records held by their general practitioner-family doctor are not readily available to hospitals upon admission and with the consent of the patient. [36305/14]