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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is not going to work. I have given a chance for the issues to be aired and the Minister of State has undertaken to come back to both Deputies. We will deal with it in that way. I thank the Minister of State and her officials for attending. The committee will meet again at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 19 June when we will meet a petitioner, Mr. Thomas Kevin Walsh, representatives of the INOU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I call the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I call the Minister to take whatever time she needs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have to ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State did not have advance notice of this issue. Could she could undertake to get back to the Deputy directly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: And similarly on Kerry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking the Minister of State to come back to both Deputies when she has had time to examine the issues and we can deal with that another time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that this is a very difficult subject.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will take Deputy Mulherin followed by Deputy Healy-Rae. We will have two further questions from Deputies Luke "Ming" Flanagan and Noel Harrington. I ask the speakers to keep their comments succinct because there are only ten minutes left. For the same reason I ask for sharp responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Deputy to go easy on the subject matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome Minister of State at the Departments of Health and Justice and Equality with responsibility for disability, equality, mental health and older people, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, her officials, Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick, assistant secretary, and Ms Sandra Walsh, assistant principal, and Mr. Gerry Raleigh, director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention. The Minister of State is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. McVeigh and Dr. Mac Laughlin for coming to share their considerable expertise on the subject matter of the meeting. I have been monitoring public discourse on this issue for some time. The delegates may be aware of the situation in County Donegal where, following confirmation that a Traveller family was to be housed in a settled part of the town of Ballyshannon, the response of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Development of New Prison in Cork City: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I was one of the members of the delegation that visited the prison and in fairness to the governor, from the outset he made it clear that the conditions are unacceptable. We desperately need a new prison and therefore we are very enthusiastic about this proposal. In fairness I note the Minister has gone some way to addressing the planning concerns. I presume that is the reason the Act was...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the conditions being experienced by many low paid or unemployed private rental tenants especially in Dublin's inner city as highlighted by reports from the RIAI and Dublin City Council; and his plans to improve conditions and enforce the law on unscrupulous slumlords. [27060/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form the funding his Department allocated to each local authority for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 for their respective fire service. [28064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the national broadband scheme will link up with private companies already involved in broadband rollout to provide greater coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26707/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider measures to encourage and incentivise unemployed persons in this State to avail of employment opportunities across the border in Northern Ireland by allowing them to retain their jobseeker's payment for the duration of any unpaid lying weeks they may have to serve and by subsidising them for the difference between the minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 676. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans, if any, to address the anomaly whereby Irish citizens sentenced to imprisonment abroad and repatriated to serve their sentence back home in this State can end up serving longer imprisonment due to less remission available here. [27284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 698. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the difference in daily rates for asylum seekers in Direct Provision; and if he will provide a breakdown of the daily rate for asylum seekers in State-owned and privately owned Direct Provision centres. [26884/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (11 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 700. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the revenues and profits generated by the tuck shop at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in 2011 and 2012 and the ten most popular items apart from cigarettes sold at the shop in 2012 and quantities in each case. [26914/13]