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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]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 210. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were sentenced to serve time in jail in the years 2012 and 2013 and the durations of same. [31889/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 211. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were sentenced to jail for non-payment of fines in 2012 and 2013; the amount the fines involved and the length of sentence they served. [31890/14]

Court of Appeal Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend Deputy Creighton on her amendment. The issue here is one of perception. While I do not wish to use terms such as "the majority" or "the overwhelming majority", on the whole the Judiciary has served the State well. A lack of consistency in decision making, particularly in the District Courts, is an issue that arises regularly, although such issues could be addressed through the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (15 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way the Traveller community in Britain directly benefits from ESP grant funding, specifically in relation to social mobility; the number of educational training programmes being offered by ESP-funded organisations to assist the Traveller community; and the way Travellers are included in the ownership, governance and design of ESP...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (15 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way his Department is ensuring Travellers are fully included in the design and delivery of all ESP-funded heritage projects. [31443/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (15 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 590. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that surveillance equipment was illegally installed in an office used by maintenance staff at Letterkenny General Hospital, that this procedure is in breach of EU conventions and all international protocols on workers' rights, that it is a criminal act to spy on workers in this manner, that it is in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 677. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card section cannot or will not make a direct call to the relevant doctors to ascertain if the medical card recipient’s outlined medical circumstances have changed since they last applied [31428/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it permissible for the medical card section to confirm with local authorities whether the persons rent has changed since they were last reviewed [31429/14]