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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There has been a long overdue focus in recent times on the direct provision centres. I welcome much of what the Minister's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has said on the matter. We have been raising this issue throughout this Dáil session. The Minister's predecessor, Deputy Shatter, was deeply disappointing in his responses and attitude...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Of particular concern is the impact on children in these centres over a long period because of the cramped environment and the food. The food is outside of their cultural experience. I listened to some of the excellent journalistic reports on radio about deep-fried foods. This is food we recommend families should not be eating all the time. Yet this is what is being given to them every...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The other issue of concern I wish to raise in this area is that of accountability. When we are providing a public service there is freedom of information and accountability to the Ombudsman. However, in the case of the private businesses that provide these services on behalf of the State, these do not apply. Therefore, we cannot look at how the money is spent or the type of food or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to commission or offer funding to a new Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland Report in order to gather more concrete and comprehensive data on sexual violence here. [35404/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Office of the Ombudsman Remit (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend the oversight powers of the Ombudsman’s office to cover our prisons and our immigration system including our direct provision centres. [35406/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is in a position to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas justice committee’s report on Traveller ethnicity published earlier this year. [35405/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the mediation Bill. [35403/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to adopt the recommendation of the Oireachtas committee on justice to criminalise those who purchase sex through prostitution. [35402/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring fence funding to support the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network to deliver the only programme specifically targeted at women from disadvantaged communities; the way he plans to provide support for this marginalised group who are not named under the social inclusion and community...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to engage with the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which now precludes them from securing funding post 2014 under the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to support the voluntary board of the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network with their responsibilities to seventeen local women’s projects, 44 staff members and approximately 200 non-directly employed staff. [36090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the marginalised women are not a target group of the new social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP; if he will provide reassurance to the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network that an alternative funding stream will be made available to...

Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Unfortunately, it has a knock-on effect. The arms embargo that was removed by the EU before we went out there undermined our neutrality in that equation. A similar point can be made regarding the emergence of ISIS. It is clear that interested parties in Europe and the US were supporting rebels in Syria who were heavily financed by the Gulf states, which are allies of Europe and the West,...

Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the fact that time has been set aside to discuss this issue in the Dáil. We and the rest of the Opposition have called for this. All Deputies have been unnerved by recent developments in the Golan Heights. We all share real concern for the health and safety of Irish troops stationed there on the UNDOF mission. Irish Defence Forces personnel who have served on UN...

Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On promised legislation, last week TheJournal.iewebsite covered the family courts in an excellent series of reports. The suffering of families which must endure this family courts process was quite harrowing. In fairness, Ministers have, on a number of occasions, promised that the Government will bring in legislation to address this. The first Bill to which I draw the Minister's attention...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One would think the Minister was doing stand-up at the Edinburgh fringe festival. Anybody watching today is looking at him and his fellow comedians behind him making light of the reality and sheer distress of so many families who are getting these letters through their doors and making choices and decisions. It is hugely disingenuous of the Minister because he knows that every year we give...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What is shocking to people watching today is why the Labour Party continues to facilitate this agenda. This year once again Sinn Féin will provide the Minister with a fully costed budget with alternatives and choices for him to make. There will be no hiding place or stand-up comedy. There will be the reality he must face up to, with the electorate who will have to pay the bills come...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are now in the throes of the usual pre-budget scenario - the flying of kites by various Ministers and shadow boxing between coalition partners. There is a sham fight between the Labour Party and Fine Gael while families watch and hope there will be an end to austerity. Last week various Government Ministers trumpeted the improved Exchequer figures but the key point is that those figures...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Appointments to State Boards (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 319. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to appoint the board of the National Disability Agency. [35654/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Contracts (18 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 5. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to continue to buy military hardware from Israeli companies. [34813/14]