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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (18 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 23. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on his recent trip to the NATO summit in Wales. [34541/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Transport (18 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 34. To ask the Minister for Defence if there are plans to maintain or replace the Government jet. [34540/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the witnesses from FLAC may know, the context of its presentation today is that we are working on one of our public petitions that is challenging the secrecy of the Central Bank's financial regulator and the issue of accountability around the process and the outcome. Does FLAC have a perspective on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On behalf of the joint committee I thank Ms Blackwell and Mr. Joyce for attending today's meeting and for engaging in a most interesting and wide-ranging discussion. We are very grateful to both of them for taking the time to meet the committee and we will take account of the exchanges in our deliberations. We will publish a report and of course we will have to deliberate on the petition at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is no database of decisions by the Financial Services Ombudsman. How can we, as legislators, be aware of the scale of the problem if we do not have the necessary statistics? For example, how can we identify if there is a problem in the hire purchase area or with personal loans?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: People think of the Ombudsman as the impartial judge based on its translation from its Nordic origins. It is an independent arbiter that looks at the complaints, gives the body that is being complained about a chance to respond and then adjudicates and makes a recommendation. I know the witnesses have a number of recommendations in the report on the Financial Services Ombudsman. Would they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes, although I am giving some poetic licence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If Deputy Kitt were in the Chair in the Dáil, he would not give such latitude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Mr. Joyce for the outstanding work he has put into this report. I invite the members of the committee to ask some questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apologies have been received from Senators Harte, Ó Clochartaigh and O'Keeffe. I remind everyone present, including members of the committee, media personnel and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones and BlackBerry devices are turned off completely, or switched to flight or safe mode, because they interfere with the sound system, even if they are in silent mode....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: National Disability Authority: Chairperson Designate (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As Members we are being lobbied by the carer representative associations about cutbacks in recent years. In fairness to all Members, regardless of political perspectives, we have much empathy with carers. They do heroic work while giving love, support and sustenance to their dependants. We want to get to a position where these carers can be fully supported. Leaving aside empathy and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: National Disability Authority: Chairperson Designate (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Another issue is the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant. Both of those schemes were suspended because the Ombudsman found them to act outside the law with regard to equality legislation because they were not available to elderly people. When the Department considered the matter, the estimate to deal with it came to approximately €500 million and that would not be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allocate funding support to the provider and licence holder of the Buncrana, County Donegal to Derry City bus route to reinstate the rights of the elderly and disabled free bus pass holders who avail of the service in view of the distress and financial strain caused to the elderly and disabled who rely on this route. [34198/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Non-EEA Student Registrations (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 555. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of non-EEA students registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau from 2005 to 2014; and if he will provide a breakdown of this number for each year by non-EEA new student registrations and repeat registrations. [32961/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 583. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of convicted persons imprisoned for less than one week; less than two weeks; less than three weeks; less than four weeks; less than five week; less than six weeks; less than seven weeks; less than eight weeks; less than nine weeks; less than ten weeks; less than eleven weeks; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 584. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 16 July 2014, the position regarding the table contained within indicating the proportional distribution of the number of prisoners who served less than three months in prison; and if the majority of these were at the longer or shorter end of the scale. [33408/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 656. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau since its inception, broken down by region; and the way this money has been spent. [34144/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: European Arrest Warrant (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 702. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will disclose the advice she received, and from whom, that informed the decision of the then Minister for Justice to delete section 42(C) of the European Arrest Warrant Act in February 2005; if she will publish the correspondence setting out such advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34816/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1071. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the ongoing failure of the Health Service Executive to ensure that training colleges here are providing the requisite number of non-consultant hospital doctors and interns to hospitals throughout the State. [34205/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1072. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of non-consultant hospital doctors that are employed on a locum basis in hospitals throughout the State; the numbers of NCHDs that are employed on a contract basis; and the difference in cost to employ a NCHD on a locum basis as opposed to a contract basis. [34206/14]