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- Business of Dáil (12 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Ceann Comhairle is applying double standards. This is sheer hypocrisy.
- Business of Dáil (12 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not leaving. This is sheer hypocrisy.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is talking about hypocrisy - God almighty.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: All of the backbenchers who are heckling are going to the newspapers to say they will confront the Minister about all of these cuts and how much they care about carer's issues.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is their chance to show they care, but instead they are heckling.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a nonsense-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----that all of these hecklers are telling their local newspapers how much they care.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They do not care a damn. We will see in a few days time how they will vote.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Here we go again.
- Other Questions: Traveller Community (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There has been foot dragging on this issue for a long time. Coming from the Traveller tradition - my mother and grandmother are Travellers - it is critically important that we define the rights and responsibilities of the Traveller community. This issue relates to their rights in terms of culture and their unique place in Irish society. When these have been firmly established and...
- Other Questions: Equality Issues (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister is aware there has been serious concern in recent years at the cutbacks in funding to the Equality Authority. I know from previous answers from the Minister of his determination to ensure that the new human rights and equality commission will be properly resourced and independent in line with the Paris and Belgrade principles and so on. I listened to a powerful lecture...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Everybody agrees that there ought to be an arrangement for exceptional circumstances. I am asking whether the Minister is seriously suggesting there are just 300 questionable cases, not 50,000, that must be examined. Regardless of the percentage, 50,000 represents a high volume of cases, which needs to be considered. I would like to have heard from the Garda Commissioner prior to the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I asked whether the Minister will publish the report.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on any internal inquiry currently being conducted following reports from a garda whistle blower (detail supplied) that a number of persons had penalty points written off; if he has met with the Garda Commissioner regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54672/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will agree that this is a very serious issue relating to public confidence in the Garda Síochána. I agree that a superintendent has the power to cancel penalty points on receipt of an appeal in writing which outlines the grounds why the points should not be applied. As the Minister has outlined, this is justified in some instances. However, there is no clarity for...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments and Removals (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce an open and transparent appointment and removal criteria and process for the judiciary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54462/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments and Removals (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce an independent Judicial Appointments Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54461/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding corrective surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) [55269/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a club (details supplied) was deemed unsuitable for any funding from the sports capital programme despite the fact they fulfilled the criteria to receive funding; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the club works on a cross community basis and caters for children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and from the...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (11 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail all applications from County Donegal to the sports capital programme in tabular format and include the amount applied for and the reason that the application was approved or rejected. [55203/12]