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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, who is accompanied by Mr. Brian Purcell, Secretary General, and Mr. Michael Flahive, assistant secretary, and thank them for their attendance. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss issues arising from reports of the unlawful surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. To ensure that mobile...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has raised this as an issue. I do not have the legal expertise to adjudicate on whether it is. I am merely asking if it is the advice of the Department of Justice and Equality and the Minister of State's opinion that the issues raised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions are not ones that will require legal change. I do not have the expertise to make...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Donohoe, suggested that what I am seeking to do with this amendment might be better achieved by amending other legislation. This issue was raised previously on Committee Stage. Does the Government believe this is not a legal issue or does it think it may be an issue that requires amendments to other legislation?...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: May I make a final point of clarification?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: An independent inquiry.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 11:In page 18, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"(1) The existence of an attachment order shall—(a) not be grounds for dismissal, (b) prohibit discrimination in employment, including at the recruitment stage.".This amendment deals with concerns that have been brought to the committee's attention by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Their concern...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When will the debate reconvene?

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: At what time will that be?

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 2:In page 9, line 36, after “fine” to insert “or not in excess of €50 for a fine over €500”.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I always get confused on Report Stage. The previous amendment was put to the Minister, but it was my amendment.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Leas-Cheann Comhairle asking me if I am in favour of the amendment?

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am in favour, tá.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the first amendment, was the Leas-Cheann Comhairle asking if I was in favour of it? He put the question to the Minister and he said "Tá", while I said "Níl".

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, line 39, to delete “€100” and substitute “€50”.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 1:In page 9, lines 30 and 31, to delete “12 months” and substitute “24 months”.To clarify, do I speak on all three amendments now?

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Report Stage (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendment No. 1 is fairly self-explanatory. As the Minister of State is aware, my party supports the objective of this long-overdue Bill. One must ensure, in so far as possible, that people are not being sent to prison for non-payment of fines. However, one must also try to ensure the fines are actually collected in a realistic fashion. Sinn Féin considers that people who will come...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if a citizen cannot make a complaint against a person working in a bank or a bank to the regulator even where the complaint involves criminality. [8497/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if a fine is levied on a person or a financial institution by the regulator while implementing the administrative sanctions procedure then immunity from criminal prosecution is automatically granted even where it has evidence that criminality has taken place. [8498/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person approaches the regulator with instances of wrongdoing in a bank even where it involves criminality or wrongdoing that has been perpetrated against them, the person will be informed that because the regulator is bound by the strict professional secrecy provisions in the 1942 Central Bank Act they cannot be informed whether the matter has been...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance when a whistleblower comes forward with information in relation to wrongdoing in a bank that in accordance with the administrative sanctions procedure does the regulator inform the bank that it is aware that it is engaged in wrongdoing and order it to stop. [8500/14]