Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Disability Services Funding

Pádraig MacLochlainn

604. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide assurances that there will be no cuts to the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency after June 2015, as feared by those relying on the service. [21315/15]

Policing Authority

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

107. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will immediately publish all submissions received by her Department in relation to the new policing authority, in order that Oireachtas Members can consider them, and to assist with potential amendments to the Bill as it moves through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [19811/15]

Human Rights Issues

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

110. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reforms she plans to introduce to make the State fully compliant with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, given that Articles 1 and 2 of the convention, when read together, require a proper and adequate official investigation into deaths resulting from the actions of State agents, both from the use of lethal force and in situations where the negligence of agents leads to a death. [19812/15]

Traveller Community

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

116. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when the Government plans to recognise the ethnicity of the Traveller community in this State. [20179/15]

Proposed Legislation

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

122. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce the Judicial Council Bill; and if she will incorporate a version of the Sentencing Council, operational in England and Wales, in the Bill. [20180/15]

Legislative Measures

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

127. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason it has taken over a year for the fines amendment Act to be implemented; her views on the confirmation from the Prison Service of another annual increase in prison committals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20177/15]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

133. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when persons or families who have submitted allegations of Garda malpractice will learn of the recommendations from the independent review panel. [20176/15]

Spent Convictions Legislation

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

134. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the Report Stage amendments she plans to introduce for the long delayed Spent Convictions Bill. [20178/15]

Legislative Measures

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

488. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the enactment of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013; if she will identify a budget for same; if she will consider establishing an interim office of the public guardian to prepare for the commencement of this legislation. [20110/15]

Disability Services Programme Review

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

489. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made by the national disability stakeholders monitoring group in establishing departmental consultation committees; the Departments that have established a committee; when each committee last met; and plans to meet again. [20111/15]

Legal Services Regulation

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

501. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow will receive a reply from her Department to correspondence alleging the person is a victim of legal malpractice. [20362/15]

Departmental Expenditure

Pádraig MacLochlainn

71. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total cost of relocating her Department staff in Letterkenny, County Donegal, from their High Road office to the Oliver Plunkett Road office, due to the discovery of asbestos material during renovations at the High Road office; and when the High Road office will be open to the public. [19475/15]

Schools Site Acquisitions

Pádraig MacLochlainn

430. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report from her Department on the efforts to secure a site of adequate dimensions in Buncrana, County Donegal, to facilitate a three-school campus for schools (details supplied); and if she will allocate the necessary funding for this project to proceed. [19476/15]

School Staff

Pádraig MacLochlainn

183. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assure parents of children at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal that they will not lose a teacher at this school; if she will support their case that the enrolment falls just two pupils short of the 115-pupil threshold required to retain the current team of five teachers. [17929/15]

Policing Authority Establishment

Pádraig MacLochlainn

235. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of submissions that were received during the public consultation, on proposals for the new policing authority; and her plans to publish these submissions. [17204/15]

Public Order Offences

Pádraig MacLochlainn

236. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the call by the west Galway coroner (details supplied) for the amendment of the public order Acts to allow gardaí to detain persons for their own safety, and for the provision of defibrillators in all stations, following a recent death; and her plans to amend the Act. [17212/15]

Prison Accommodation Standards

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

219. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an annual breakdown for the years 2010 to 2014 and 2015 to date, of the number of cases filed against the State seeking damages over slopping out; the number of cases settled in each year; and the number settled at a cost to the State. [16595/15]

Immigration Controls

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

220. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of inspections of language schools and schools for international students carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau in each year from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and the number of suspensions or closures that have resulted from these inspections. [16596/15]

Hospital Staff

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

279. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when staff at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, who lost expensive personal belongings in the flooding at the hospital in July 2013 and who have officially submitted compensation claims, will be compensated. [16453/15]

Housing Issues

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

164. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 27 May 2014, the contacts he has had with the Mica Action Group in County Donegal; if consideration will be given to the establishment of a redress scheme similar to that established under the auspices of the Pyrite Resolution Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15927/15]