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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: First, I congratulate Ms Egan on her designation as chair of the Legal Aid Board. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, at Article 47, states, “Everyone whose rights and freedoms guaranteed by the law of the Union are violated has the right to an effective remedy”. It also provides that legal aid shall be provided to those who need it. Obviously, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Obviously, it becomes particularly problematic to represent yourself where the only remedy available is judicial review. If it is a plenary matter, perhaps a person might have a chance. Where it is judicial review, however, it is very difficult to see how somebody can represent themselves successfully. Does Ms Egan agree with the assessment of Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy, a retired judge of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: My apologies for the duplication. I congratulate Ms Egan.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: The Government supports the nature restoration law at European level. That law contains some important and admirable ambitions. The problem is that there is a lack of a dedicated funding mechanism, or any funding mechanism at all, for farmers who will be required to reduce or abandon farming activity on lands governed by the law. At a domestic level, the Government stopped funding the...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I am sharing time. I find myself, as is often if not always the case, in agreement with what Deputy McGuinness said but I acknowledge that farm inspections, for example, have been eased in the circumstances, which has come as some small relief to farmers given the pressure they were under. In the brief time available, I will discuss the fodder transport scheme. While it is well...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I just wanted to make a very brief point. I greatly welcome the apology that is going to take place today. It is grossly overdue.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: No, it is on the Order of Business. We also need to deal----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: ----with apologies for what is happening now, in particular what is happening at University Hospital Limerick.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: 493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an application for a foreshore licence (details supplied); if it is lawful to carry out acquaculture activities at the site in the meantime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17894/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Earlier, the Minister said the new take-back mechanism will be better and that it will not be open to other countries to frustrate it. In 2023, the Department issued 188 transfer decisions. This means there were 188 cases where another country said it was responsible for processing a person and that it would take these persons back. Of these 188, three were transferred. Will the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: It shows the inefficiency of the Department. Other countries said they would take them back. They accepted they would take them back and that they have responsibility. The Department transferred three of them. Where is the problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: No. The other country accepted responsibility and that it would take them back. A decision was made to transfer them and three of the 188 were transferred. Where is the problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Yes, but why would the Department run out of time? It has six months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: No, the other countries did not frustrate it. They accepted they were taking these people back so what is the problem in the Department with implementing the Dublin III regulation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: They were.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: You cannot issue a transfer decision without another country accepting responsibility, so that was done. I will move on. The Minister says it does not work generally. Senator Ward suggested, and I would have assumed the same thing, that Ireland would be a beneficiary and we would send back more people than we accept but in 2022 we took back 15 people and transferred two. In the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: What will change with the new rules? If we cannot operate the existing rules, how can we operate the new rules any better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: It is not 2,000 times bigger.