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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will allow the witnesses to leave before entering private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With regard to "do not resuscitate" decisions, do the witnesses believe there is a need to examine the guidelines or the legislation? The report indicates the families may not have understood the full implications of the term so is there more work to be done in the area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has the HSE corresponded about the report or accepted the conclusions? Will they be factored into practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Our committee will deliberate but we may wish to do a follow-up with the HSE to gauge its response to the report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Ms McNally wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The issue of private versus public hospitals was raised. During a previous interaction between the committee and the Ombudsman, he raised with us the need to ensure that all public services, whether delivered by a private or public company, come under the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman, which is an issue that arises not only in Ireland but throughout Europe. It is an issue on which the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee is sitting in its capacity as the joint sub-committee on the Ombudsman to consider the report of the Office of the Ombudsman on “A Good Death”. I remind all those present to put their mobile phones to safe mode or switch them off entirely as they interfere with the sound recording system. I apologise to the Ombudsman and the director general from that office for...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister and his European colleagues stand up to Israel, confront this historical injustice and defend the rights of the Palestinian people for once and for all?

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware that a few years ago the European Union, in an important report, heavily condemned Israel for the continued settlements in the West Bank. Essentially, the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza are in an open-air prison. The Palestinian people in the West Bank are occupied. There are between 1 million and 2 million Palestinian refugees based in Lebanon, Syria...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Because it is not confronted, Israel feels it can do again what it has done before - bombard entire packed residential areas with rockets coming from naval vessels, tanks and bases throughout Israel.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an affront to international humanity and democracy. We need to call it what it is and call in the Israeli ambassador and state that the Irish people deplore the actions of his state in defiance of the international community, deplore the oppression that his state continually puts upon the Palestinian people and demand that Israel engages in talks with the Palestinian representatives,...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When that happens, we will have justice for the Palestinian people.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am glad the Minister stated at the end-----

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----that the blockade of Gaza is the issue here because those people are desperate and have no hope, and what can one do but fight back in those circumstances.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is tragic, it is unfortunate, but what can they do.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is growing outrage across the world at the escalating death toll in Gaza. Gaza, with a population of about 1.8 million Palestinians, is essentially an open air prison. It is a community of people who are dispossessed, moved away from their homeland for decades. They have had to endure that profound injustice but, once again, they are under onslaught. Over 200 people have been killed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 206. 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 six months, for five months, for four months, for two months and for one month in 2013; and if she will further provide a breakdown of the categories of the crime these persons were imprisoned for and a gender breakdown of same. [31885/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 207. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of every person imprisoned in a jail here on a weekly, monthly and annual basis. [31886/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Service Orders (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 208. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of every person on community service on a hourly and weekly basis. [31887/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Service Orders (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 209. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were sentenced to community service in the years 2012 and 2013 and the durations of same. [31888/14]