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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the percentage of the total home help hours administered by the Health Service Executive in County Donegal, allocated to private companies for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 [18481/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown for the years 2010, 20911, 2012 and to date in 2013 of the number of home help assistants in County Donegal contracted by the Health Service Executive; and the hours they worked per week [18482/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the reason home help assistants, contracted by the Health Service Executive, do not appear to have hours they have lost reinstated or replaced over recent years [18483/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a commitment that all contracts between the Health Service Executive and home help assistants will be honoured in terms of compensation for lost hours in the event of their clients being taken into respite care or in the event of their client's death [18484/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal, in each of the past seven years; and the funding available to the hospital in 2013 [18894/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed at Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal, in each of the past seven years. [18895/13]

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin welcomes this Bill and will support its passage through the House. We must all continue to work hard to ensure it is made increasingly tough for those involved in criminality to channel their money in a way that allows them to live a lifestyle repugnant to any sense of justice. For too long, many of our communities have faced the scourge of organised criminality and criminal...

Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (18 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will introduce the Freedom of Information Bill 2012 in the Dáil. [17839/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is that agreed? Agreed. Two votes have been called and therefore we will move on quickly. The next petition is No. P00058/12 from Mr. John Atkinson regarding a change in mandatory sentencing for murder convictions. The committee has had an opportunity to deliberate on this and I propose that the following recommendation be accepted:The committee notes that the Law Reform Commission is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes; we can encourage the petitioner to contact the Law Reform Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it agreed, as an additional point, that we do that? Agreed. The next petition is No. P0007/13 from Mr. Paddy Lambe regarding concerns about inappropriate standards related to proposed diving industry legislation. I will open this up for recommendations. We had a chance to deliberate on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is that agreed? Agreed. Petition No. P00011/13 has been withdrawn by the petitioner. Petition No. P00012/13 is deemed inadmissible. The text of this petition should not be published as the petitioner is naming a firm of solicitors and it has been deemed inadmissible. I propose that the joint committee stand adjourned until 4 p.m. next Wednesday, 24 April 2013.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No problem. I thank the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are in public session. The committee has deliberated petition No. P00035/12, from Ms Helen Corcoran, re microwave sickness or electro-sensitivity arising from mobile telephone masts. Do we have any recommendations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: All right. For the record, the recommendations are, first, that the committee note that the World Health Organisation's international EMF project is expected to issue a formal risk assessment of all studied health outcomes from radiofrequency field exposure in 2014. Second, the view of the committee is that publication of the risk assessment will present a further opportunity for review of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We might let Mr. Collins and Ms Quilligan give a brief summary and then, with the Chairman's agreement, we might revisit the issue in a future presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We might let Mr. Collins and Ms Quilligan make an assessment before we revisit it at a later date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am trying to get the representatives to outline what historically has distinguished the Traveller community from the settled community. How is it that there are 40,000 people in that culture today? What is the historical context? Various members of the community have different aims and outlooks. How did the community evolve?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (17 Apr 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My views on this subject are well known. I commend the witnesses on their presentation. The human rights and legal framework for this, domestically and internationally, is watertight. It cannot be argued with. It is that simple. I invite anybody to argue the case against it, as there is no case against it. We will develop that as the hearings proceed. We will see if it can be argued...