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- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Young Tories.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014, it has been reported today that the Government is advertising the position of chairman-designate of the proposed new policing authority. The new chief commissioner-designate of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Ms Emily Logan, appeared yesterday before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality....
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The question was not answered in respect of the chairman-designate and whether the process will be fully independent. It is not a point about the Government but about the public appointments process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was good of Senator Mullen to attend.
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise on behalf of Deputy Peadar Tóibín who could not attend today as he has a funeral in his constituency. It is important to state from the outset that it is a shared objective of the Members of this House to reform the current industrial relations structures. From Sinn Féin's perspective, we have stated from the start of the Minister's consultations with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On procedure, we spoke earlier about this committee recommending that we have a Dáil debate about the UN human rights committee's startling implications for our international reputation, and that stands. I appreciate that is something Senator Mullen feels strongly about, and he has graced us by attending today, but we can have a wider debate on it in the Dáil and in the Seanad at a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a statement of fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a statement of fact, Senator. You are hardly ever here. This is a working committee of the Oireachtas and you rarely show up, except for your own agenda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You rarely grace us with your presence. This is a working Oireachtas committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Your attendance rate is very poor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You rarely show up for the business of this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You have used this committee for your own agenda-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is great that you could be here today. We are really graced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms Logan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I congratulate Ms Logan on her appointment. In terms of the presentation by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the UN Human Rights Committee, Ms Logan referenced the views of that committee, and I followed that with a great deal of interest. She suggested that we probably should have a dedicated debate on that in this Parliament because what we are talking about here is our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My next question relates to the direct provision system. Ms Logan has raised this issue and I am sure she will have noted that there has been a marked increase in focus on it in Parliament. It was the subject of a Private Members' motion last week that extended over two nights. It appears we are nearing the point where, collectively, everybody is agreed that this system needs to change...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not at all. I am pleased that the Chairman intervened. I have two final questions. Ms Logan will be aware of the equality budgeting campaign which comprises a group of civic society organisations which campaign that we carry out an equality impact assessment of budgets and Government policy in terms of how they would impact particularly on the most disadvantaged in society. I would like...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (7 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 296. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be able to apply for repatriation; and the timeframe for same. [38119/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (7 Oct 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 297. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for Irish naturalisation approved for persons not currently resident here; and of these the number of same sex couples. [38120/14]