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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (8 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 654. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any anti-crime prevention and detection strategy is currently in operation in Dublin city centre; her plans to introduce such a strategy in consultation with both local business owners and the community. [29749/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (8 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 655. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action that is being taken to combat anti-social behaviour around the Temple bar area between Westmoreland Street and Wellington Quay in Dublin city which is negatively impacting on local traders and visitors to the area. [29750/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (8 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 741. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that surveillance equipment was illegally used in an office used by maintenance staff at Letterkenny General Hospital; if he will reassure staff at Letterkenny General Hospital that their right to privacy in the workplace was not compromised; if he will establish if this practice has not occurred anywhere else...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I also offer my apologies. I thank the Minister for her kind invitation. Perhaps she might consider giving us future opportunities, but I cannot make it this time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate the invitation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulation on Eurodac: Motion (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With regard to fingerprints, there is an existing directive and they are a legitimate requirement. I am aware of a case where an applicant here in Ireland claimed to be from a certain country which is noted for conflict. The person was fingerprinted in Britain initially and it emerged that the person was from a different country in Africa. When an Irish check was done the authorities could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulation on Eurodac: Motion (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am advised that Ireland has not implemented Prüm and, therefore, we cannot seek information from Eurodac for criminal investigations. What are the benefits for Ireland opting-in? Other countries have signed up to Prüm. Has a two-tier situation emerged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulation on Eurodac: Motion (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulation on Eurodac: Motion (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Eurodac database is huge, with 2.3 million individuals, and it will grow substantially as we move forward. There are concerns around access by law enforcement agencies to the database, most notably from the European data protection supervisor. It is not complete access but there is concern that asylum seekers will be criminalised through this process. Why would somebody who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulation on Eurodac: Motion (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The European data protection supervisor argues that a new impact assessment should have been performed. It also states that the necessity and proportionality of access to Eurodac for law enforcement has not been demonstrated. Does the Minister believe it is okay that an impact assessment was not carried out? Has the important matter of proportionality been demonstrated to our Government?...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to fund a new bridge at Cockhill, Buncrana, County Donegal. [28596/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (2 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding for a new coastguard station building at Malin Head, County Donegal or substantially upgrading the existing station. [28598/14]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend this motion as for too many years, the whole area of mental health has been the Cinderella of the health service. Over the years while growing up and in common with many people, when visiting different towns I wondered what was this big house or what was the history of that big building. One often was told that it was the psychiatric hospital, which was where people were put out...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Fisheries (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 269. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No.73 of 11 June 2014, if he will offer a detailed response to the question that was posed, that is, if he is satisfied that no actions have been taken by Inland Fisheries Ireland or its predecessor organisations over the past 15 years which have been damaging to the conservation status of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Expenditure (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 279. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that all projects carried out with financial assistance from Inland Fisheries Ireland's salmon conservation fund over the period from 2007 to 2013 were the subject of the required screening statements and or full appropriate assessments where the projects in question were located in or adjacent to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 280. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 11 June 2014, and in view of his admission that Inland Fisheries Ireland is not in a position to edit or control the content of direct posts to its Facebook page, if in his view the hosting of such posts on the IFI Facebook page has exposed his Department and the State to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 281. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the hosting by Inland Fisheries Ireland of directs posts, created by staff members of IFI and containing comments regarding issues in respect of which IFI has a statutory function, is in accordance with the provisions of the Ethics in Public Office legislation; his views that this practice by IFI...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 282. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 11 June 2014, if he will identify the scientific journal to which the research has been submitted and when it is expected to be published; if Inland Fisheries Ireland will supply details of this important environmental information in the interim, in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 283. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 11 June 2014, in which he states there was no omission from the list previously supplied, if he will now confirm the following facts, that IFI an or its predecessors were co-authors of the SUMBAWS report and thus the report itself falls under the scope of PQ 18147/14 and it...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (1 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 284. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will now instruct his Department and Inland Fisheries Ireland to make public the important research findings regarding salmon and sea trout contained within the SUMBAWS report. [28336/14]