Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality

9:30 am

Photo of Charles FlanaganCharles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the Judicial Council Bill, we are proceeding with working through the amendments. There are a number of specific amendments on the matter of sentencing information, to which the Deputy referred. If I do not have the full suite of amendments ready by the summer recess, I will have prioritised the work on the sentencing issue and I would be happy to share those amendments with the Deputy, which may at this stage be separate from the overall body of amendments to the Judicial Council Bill. We are working on the amendments, in which the Deputy expressed an urgent and active interest. I will have something on that by the end of the recess.

On the Data Protection Act, I referred a section to the Attorney General. I do not anticipate any great delay in that. A matter of weeks was anticipated and that was two or three weeks ago. I will provide the Deputy with an update on that but it is not something that will endure right throughout the summer months.

On the fraud convention, I do not have an immediate response on that-----

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