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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building works for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46241/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: 350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the current difficulties being experienced by a person (details supplied) trying to renew their public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46079/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: 418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when funding will be made available to assist landowners in dealing with ash dieback disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46057/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: I propose that we go into private session as there is a bit of procedure to go through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: Before we move on to the main business of the meeting, on behalf of the committee, I wish to read the following statement into the record. At its meeting on 4 July 2023, the committee engaged in pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the defamation (amendment) Bill. Following the meeting, the committee received correspondence from a solicitor acting on behalf of Mr. Stephen Rae...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. The purpose of our meeting is to discuss policing matters. A range of matters will be traversed. The discussion will cover three main topics: challenges relating to rostering and recruitment and recent industrial relations issues; the policing of Dublin city; and the policing of protests. Those are three quite distinct topics but I am sure there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: I allowed some latitude on the time. I did the same for the GRA because of the matters to be considered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: I thank Mr. Gallagher and all our guests. That concludes the initial opening statements. Quite a breadth of topics were covered. Topics 1 and 2 were mentioned but topic 3 perhaps did not get quite the same degree of attention in the opening statements. That is important and perhaps we will touch on that in the toing and froing over the course of the meeting. I will invite members to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: There is a short window left for responses to the Deputy's questions. There will be time over the course of the meeting for the witnesses to come back in. To keep it fair, I will stick to six-minute slots for each member. Does Ms Cunningham wish to respond to that set of questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: Does Deputy Costello want to direct the question to any particular witness or across the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: We will start from the top with the GRA and take it down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: Ms Cunningham mentioned the Bill relating to body-worn cameras that is being debated in the Seanad. Our colleague, Senator Ward, who was here has gone to debate it. There was a lot of debate in the public domain in the past year or two. For the record, the committee endorsed the idea of body-worn cameras from the start. We had no issue whatsoever. There was a separate concern around...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: We will go reverse order. I will start with Mr. Gallagher who had his hand up the last time and did not get to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: What did the Deputy mean when he asked where they got the money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: As opposed to a planning objection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: There is a difference in magnitude with the money involved. I did not know the background.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
James Lawless: Do the representatives from the two other groups wish to comment?