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Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with what the Minister of State has outlined as the function and value of the community employment scheme. To an extent, this boils down to common sense. We are forcing people to jump through hoops that should be unnecessary. We are making it far more difficult to connect people who want to work and participate in the scheme with those who want to give such people a job. I call on...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Community employment schemes offer people significant opportunities in terms of experience and getting back to work and they also offer a considerable benefit to the communities in which they are located in terms of the services they provide. It has been drawn to my attention by people involved in scheme, both at administrative level and participants in it that the manner in which CE schemes...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Toland report, published in 2014, followed much of the same kind of controversies which An Garda Síochána and the Department found themselves in at that stage. The report found there to be a closed, secretive and silo-driven culture and that there was a deferential relationship with An Garda Síochána, with a lack of proper strategic accountability being brought to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome that the review is to be undertaken by a senior counsel, which was a welcome change on the part of the Minister and Government. It is still my view that it is difficult to credit that the emails could not have been found simply as a result of accident or error. That is why I was of the view that the tribunal should consider amending the terms of reference. The short document...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the implementation of the Toland report and the need for comprehensive reform of his Department; his further views on whether structural and cultural reform is required in his Department; and his plans for same. [51980/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Revelations in recent weeks have raised serious questions about the Department of Justice and Equality, its culture, its fitness for purpose and the need for a structural reform that takes in, but is not limited to, the Toland report and the reforms outlined therein. Will the Minister outline how he intends to reform the Department and implement this report?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Sinn Féin has long been of the view that what we need in the South is a Patten-type approach which was so central to the reform of policing in the North. It is in that context that we welcome the establishment of the Policing Authority, for which we had long called, and the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. If there is to be the Patten-type shift that apparently is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is anticipated that the process will begin in a matter of weeks, before or around the time the call is made for submissions on the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. What is not in the public interest is what is probably the most crucial appointment of a Garda Commissioner in the almost 100-year history of An Garda Síochána not being approached in the right way....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the appointment process for the position of Garda Commissioner; if he has considered the concerns expressed by the Commission on the Future of Policing about making such an appointment before the commission has finished its work; and his further views on whether it might be premature to make such an appointment...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My question relates to the Commission on the Future of Policing. The Minister and his Government have put a great deal of store by the commission in terms of the reform of policing and justice more generally and in its ability to deliver significant change. If the commission is to deliver the kind of change hoped for by the Government, it is essential that it be given the proper space and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy 2017 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51734/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a recent review of direct provision as a model; his plan to review same in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51736/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of dedicated community gardaí in the service of An Garda Síochána, in each of the past seven years; the number of dedicated community gardaí in the Cork city Garda district in each of the past seven years; if he will report on the commitment of his Department to the national model of community...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to allow groups of persons who have been wronged to take collective action cases in the courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51733/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (5 Dec 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a recent review of the Garda youth diversion project as a model; if not, if he will examine same; if there is potential to extend it to petty offenders over 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51735/17]

Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish an office of a Digital; Safety Commissioner and to provide for its functions to ensure the oversight and regulation of procedures for removal, by digital service, undertakings of harmful digital communications; to provide for the creation of codes of practice for digital services undertakings; to establish an...

Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It may be apparent but I want to get absolute clarity on the issue of the overtime. It may be an operational matter for the gardaí but on the basis of what has been provided here, can it be said that the announced ban on overtime, apart from specific operations, in the Dublin metropolitan region will continue between now and the end of the year or will it be rectified and overtime be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I understand and appreciate that but the budget for Garda overtime is global, taking in all the divisions, and leaked or not, I presume the circular was accurate. As far as the Minister understands it, will there now be a change in the position in the Dublin metropolitan region and will overtime be available in that district?

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank all the Deputies who have spoken on this motion. I regret that we have not been able to discuss the full motion we initially submitted. It was a more comprehensive motion, but there were procedural issues with it. It set out the specific changes to the terms of reference that we are advocating. It is unfortunate that some of the issues that would have been raised during a...