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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I might invite Deputies to raise two questions each rather than me read them all out. Every Deputy has two or three questions and can choose to work off the questions submitted by the recipients. It is up to the Deputies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sorry to interrupt but copies of Dr. McLoughlin's speech have not been circulated. If they have been then I do not have a copy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will circulate copies. I am sorry for interrupting Dr. McLoughlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are now in public session. I remind members and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of this meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment even when in silent mode. We have in the Visitors Gallery today representatives of the centres for independent living and disability rights campaigners. Questions have been...

Other Questions: Road Traffic Offences (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I did not realise the Minister was taking them together.

Other Questions: Road Traffic Offences (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Some of the other Deputies have referred to whistleblowers within the force having brought into the public domain what they claim to be shoddy practice. Apparently, it is limited to a number of districts. It is not widespread. The bottom line is that the public needs to know. It would be appalling and outrageous for the overwhelming majority of motorists who have paid their fine, taken...

Other Questions: Domestic Violence Refuges (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I, along with many Deputies, attended last year a very moving presentation from SAFE Ireland, the umbrella group for domestic violence centres and groups. Its core crisis concerns the need to have enough refuge centres for women. As I am sure the Minister knows, one in five women in Ireland has reported she has been a victim of domestic abuse, either with her current or previous partner....

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will I have two minutes for each question?

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I may not need that long.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is grand. I submitted these questions because of dialogue with a number of gardaí in different parts of the State. They are concerned that in their districts, the dedicated focus on drugs and crime detection was being lessened by cutbacks and reallocation. In a number of places where I spoke to officers, they would have had considerable success in the area. Garda units with...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have received feedback from officers both in an urban setting and in two rural settings. The feedback is that they are seeing less capacity to do their job and these gardaí are very frustrated. There was a wave of burglaries in Donegal but I am thankful there was a special operation to tackle that. We met the assistant commissioner and I applaud the Garda because it very quickly got...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister was the Fine Gael spokesperson on justice a couple of years ago when he sat on this side of the Chamber. He would have asked the questions that I am asking and would have had contacts with the Garda Representative Association, GRA, and spoken to gardaí on the ground. He knows the type of relationship that Opposition spokespersons have with gardaí. Ignoring the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister clarify the proposal on the five vans? Some 143 Garda stations have closed and there has been a significant reduction in the number of gardaí and vehicles. There are reports that many of those vehicles are not up to standard, yet the response is five vans. This demonstrates that someone at a high level is badly out of touch. Will the Minister address these two...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will be brief.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I did not eat into my time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am respectful of the Ceann Comhairle's steer, but I am losing-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will revisit the matter later.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to meet with the representatives of Garda representative organisations in order to address their concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11758/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Racial Profiling (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the Fourth Monitoring Report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance on Ireland which found that there is no legislative bar on the use of racial profiling in policing here; his plans to adopt legislation prohibiting any form of racial profiling in policing. [11548/13]