Results 1-20 of 150 for speaker:Paula Butterly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: Hello to the officials. I am from the Louth constituency. I will start with the ESB. The port access northern cross route, PANCR, in Drogheda is intended to have 7,000 homes. Phase 2 is about to start any time now. My understanding is in or around April of this year a moratorium was placed on new connections. I cannot overstate the importance the PANCR project will have for a town like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: The Chair is going to interrupt me any moment. On that, Mr. Rossiter said the review is complete. Do we have a timeline for when the solutions will be put in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: Is the timeline six months, eight months or 12 months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: Is Mr. Rossiter saying that we will have no issues connecting the houses in and around the Ballymakenny area, that this can occur and that we will have facilities and connectivity for any new businesses coming into Drogheda?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank Mr. Tarrant. I will take him up on his offer of a meeting. I have more questions to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: Is there time for an answer about Uisce Éireann?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank Mr. French for his opening statement. I was particularly struck by his level-headedness. Very often when there are tragedies like this in families, there is very much a knee-jerk reaction of calling for the immediate enactment of legislation. I was really impressed by his logic about the presumption of innocence and seeing it through to conviction because anything else could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Paula Butterly: I certainly agree with Mr. French about manslaughter because it is very often different from murder. There may be aggravating circumstances. Facts and evidence of aggravating circumstances such as domestic abuse and victimisation, etc. which will lead to a conviction of murder may be put before the jury during the trial. Mr. French has been at the centre of this and I have no doubt he has...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I apologise for not being here for the Minister’s opening statement. I have just a couple of points to raise, the first of which concerns the courts. When it comes to the Family Court and the establishment-----

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Are we still on the first Vote?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I apologise to the Minister. I was going from back to front rather than front to back, and I did not mean to rush him.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Thank goodness. On the Courts Service, is provision made there for the family courts?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Will that entail not just additional judicial positions but also possibly capital funding for new buildings or spaces? Some courthouses can accommodate, some cannot.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Does that funding allow for any restoration of fees for barristers? It is something they have been campaigning long and hard for and there is an exodus of barristers at this stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: On the community safety partnerships, this is very welcome. We saw the benefits of having the Drogheda implementation board in County Louth. Does the Minister think sufficient funding is being made available? It is the very moment in which we can bring all the different stakeholders together and have a very positive impact. As any of my colleagues here have said, at ground level we have...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: That will not change.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Okay. At the beginning, some of my colleagues also brought this up. The GRA, prior to the election, said that over 90% of An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service, Defence Forces and the fire brigades were very unsatisfied and concerned in regard to their pensions - obviously, whoever was recruited after 2013. Some 73% of those believed they would have to find alternative...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: A lot of what has been spoken about today is about addressing issues after they have happened. I will give my thoughts on this. We have established task forces or committees on a cross-departmental basis. I am very conscious that on the ground there are children coming into crime at an earlier and earlier stage. There is an element of intergenerational crime starting to happen. Maybe it...