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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a few other questions for the acting Garda Commissioner. In regard to all of the recent debacles and, in some cases, scandals that have emerged, what are the learning curves for senior management in An Garda Síochána in terms of dealing with whistleblowers and serious allegations? I am sure the acting Garda Commissioner has had an opportunity to read the Guerin report, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The acting Garda Commissioner will be aware that there is a legal responsibility on senior Garda management to protect whistleblowers. It is reported again today in the media that Sergeant Maurice McCabe is very isolated, unable to attend work and has made repeated complaints about how he is being treated. I spoke to him today on the basis of the article in today's Irish Independent. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the acting Garda Commissioner personally take responsibility for dealing with this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It made a lot of sense to me that at our previous hearings GSOC suggested that the more minor complaints from the public or from members of An Garda Síochána should be dealt with in an informal resolution process. I note that Ms O'Loan's detailed submission also includes that recommendation. I am interested to hear the views of Ms O'Loan and of the acting Garda Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: At last week's committee hearings, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Amnesty International, Transparency International Ireland and other contributors raised the issue of security oversight. Unlike in the North of Ireland, An Garda Síochána has responsibility for intelligence, security and policing all under the one roof. The contributors last week made the suggestion...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why can the Taoiseach not give it to us today? Just tell us.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Death Certificates Issues (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has yet to be furnished with a death certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23444/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if their application has been refused; if so, on what basis; the options available to appeal this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22347/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 559. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the Mica Action Group which is active in County Donegal on the issue of defective blocks used in the building of homes that are leading to large cracks appearing in homes; the steps he has taken on this issue; if he will consider establishing a redress scheme similar to that which has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Funding (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 672. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the budget for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal. [22607/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Funding (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 673. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the figure for outstanding adjudications from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal which have yet to be paid. [22608/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Funding (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 674. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the failure to appoint the membership of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal is a budgetary measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22609/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) with progressive multiple sclerosis lost their medical card; and the reason they have been waiting since March for a review. [22135/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including in the medical practitioner’s contract with the Health Service Executive a stipulation that the contracted doctors update twice yearly the medical conditions of all medical card holders to the medical card section. [22646/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 782. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that the obstetrics unit at Letterkenny General Hospital is under threat with a serious impact on maternity services at the hospital [22559/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 799. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow is having their medical card reviewed so soon after being reviewed and reissued with a card late last year; the way a person living with polio poliomyelitis which left them paralysed from the waist down and a full-time wheelchair user as well as post-polio syndrome, scoliosis of the spine for which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 800. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card section cannot or will not make a direct call to the relevant doctor to ascertain if the medical card recipient's outlined medical circumstances have changed since they last applied [22645/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 802. 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 person's rent has changed since they were last reviewed [22647/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 803. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it the task of the staff of the medical card section to gather the relevant information from the professional bodies concerned when assessing medical card applications from disabled persons [22648/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the way the removal of the medical card fits with the Government's Healthy Ireland – A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing (details supplied); if the key to this approach is as stated a focus on prevention and whole of society approach to improving health; the way the removal of the vital support of a medical card for people with disabilities...