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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have had enough interaction on that and I have some questions. I should say first that our committee deals with all the ombudsmen and we are very proud that the outgoing Ombudsman, Ms Emily O'Reilly, has been elected as the European Ombudsman. We have established a reputation in Ireland in this evolving area, as the ombudsmen would acknowledge. The public service managers, including...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am conscious of the number of questions asked in that contribution. If there is anything that you reckon you have dealt with already, Commissioner, you need not reiterate the point. Please simply indicate that you have dealt with the point already for the purposes of fluency. We do not need to hear anything repeated. You have given assurances on some of those points. If anything needs...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A brief supplementary question, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fair enough. We will take them as a group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To clarify the matter, Deputy, do you have more questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fine. We can move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In fairness, it would be unreasonable to ask the Commissioner for that statistic today. However, I ask him to revert with the figures the Deputy has requested whenever he can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No. The Commissioner can take as long as he needs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy's telephone is interfering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sorry, and I appreciate that these things happen with technology, but I ask everyone to switch off their telephone devices completely. There was a lot of interference when Deputy Charles Flanagan spoke. It may not have been from his telephone but from the same table. We will get that done before we move on, as this is an important public session. The television camera operators will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Garda Commissioner. Before I open the floor to members, I remind them that their only focus should be on the concerns raised by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, as outlined to the committee in its special and annual reports.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan, for taking the time to meet the committee today. The Commissioner is accompanied by Ms Noirín O'Sullivan, Deputy Commissioner; Mr. John O'Mahony, Assistant Commissioner; and Mr. Ken Ruane, head of legal affairs. I also understand that Mr. Andrew McLindon, director of communications, and Mr. David Taylor, Garda press officer are...
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When will the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 finally be brought back to the House for Committee Stage? This is dragging on and on. Will it be done before Christmas? There are growing concerns among members of the public about some decisions from the Judiciary. The Government has in the past outlined that it would consider new legislation on a sentencing council with clear sentencing...
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My second question was on the issue of a sentencing council with clear sentencing guidelines for the Judiciary. The Taoiseach will be aware of some of the cases in recent times. One of them was overturned in recent days.
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Where the public is seriously concerned about some decisions from the Judiciary, we need clear guidelines. Is the Government going to bring in legislation to do that?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Policy (20 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to meet with officials from the US Embassy and consular service in Dublin to discuss matters of concern to the Government such as immigration reform. [49748/13]
- Youth Employment: Motion [Private Members] (19 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In 1987, the activist Raymond Crotty wrote a book entitled Ireland in Crisis: A Study in Capitalist Colonial Undevelopment. He revealed that, from the foundation of the State until the period he wrote the book, half of all Irish citizens who survived childhood had left the State and emigrated. That is a horrendous figure. What is the real manifestation of it in communities? I can only...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (13 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will clarify. I appreciate every state has its own laws and framework, but the English, Welsh and Scottish law clearly recognises, following a court decision, that the Irish Traveller community is an ethnic community within that jurisdiction. They have made a legal judgment and it has been published. Would Ms Lucey see that as also applying to Ireland, if we looked at it in the same way?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (13 Nov 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms Lucey. There are a couple of other questions.