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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No interruptions please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I suggest that for the benefit of the committee, the Department could provide a better breakdown of how it arrived at those figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I must ask the Deputy to get to the question because we have been on this for over two hours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister. I will allow-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I shall allow three brief supplementaries before wrapping up. We have had an extensive session, running to an hour and 50 minutes, at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Very briefly, because members have waited patiently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am about to clarify the matter. Senator O'Keeffe stated that the Ombudsman had made the allegations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will ask Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin to circulate a copy of his response.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When we receive the response from Dr. McLoughlin we will deliberate upon it at our next meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I must stop you, Deputy. I have given you plenty of latitude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sorry, will the Deputy please finish his question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Please allow the Minister of State to respond. The Deputy may come back in with a supplementary later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I might allow the Deputy in after some others have contributed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister and Minister of State and I call Deputy Ó Snodaigh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are now in public session. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin, Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Ms Grainne Duffy, Mr. Harry Harris and Ms Cate Hartigan. I remind those present, including members, media and those in the people in the Visitors Gallery that mobile telephones and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome much of what the Minister says. Acknowledging, first, that the status quo is not acceptable, we need to get to the stage where the Judiciary is clearly fully independent and, in terms of the selection or appointment procedure, is fully accountable. I ask the Minister to take a look at my Private Members' Bill. It is merely a contribution. I do not volunteer that it has all the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to amend the operation of the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board and increase transparency and accountability in the appointment of members of the judiciary. [6082/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Judicial Appointments Advisory Board has been in place since the mid-1990s. Since then there have been 160 appointments, with thousands expressing an interest so there is considerable demand among very capable candidates for these posts. It continues to be the case, however, that judicial appointments are made of people whose track record shows involvement in political parties. Around...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Who founded the Fine Gael Party? Was it Gandhi or Martin Luther King?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Law Reform Commission Recommendations (6 Feb 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to amend aspects of the civil law concerning missing persons. [5987/13]