Results 9,061-9,080 of 9,409 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (16 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 76. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each in the Dublin southern metropolitan region on 30 November 2016. [40635/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality/Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for being here and I wish him all the best in his role. In fairness to him, the convention was signed in 2007 and so I do not blame him for it not having been ratified yet. That said, this committee is anxious that it be ratified soon. As the Minister of State is the person in the hot-seat, the committee would like him to become an irritant within Government...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 187. To ask the Minister for Health if the clinical trial of the Respreeza drug which assists persons that suffer from emphysema will continue to be made available to persons who are currently in receipt of the drug; if not, if his Department will instruct the manufacturers (details supplied) to maintain compassionate access schemes to persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Courts Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is important to remember that the Courts Bill was introduced last month, November, for a particular reason. The House was told that it was being introduced to deal with the unintended consequences of a Court of Appeal decision on a case called Permanent TSB v.Langan. That decision was given in July of this year. The Government said it was introducing the Bill to deal with some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Dublin armed response unit; if it is now operational; the number of gardaí assigned to it; if any of its members have been reassigned from existing Garda units; if so, the number of such gardaí; if all the vacancies arising in those units from reassignment have been filled; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when responsibility for criminal legal aid will be transferred to the Legal Aid Board. [39757/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of her Department’s examination of the feasibility of a new public defender system. [39758/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the pilot scheme to reopen six Garda stations will commence. [39760/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Joint Policing Committees (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources provided by her Department to local joint policing committees in 2015 and 2016; and the amount being provided in 2017. [39761/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of each specialist unit in An Garda Síochána involved in the fight against all forms of serious crime with regard to the programme for Government commitment on the need to build up to full strength at the earliest opportunity; and the target level for each. [39762/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda business fora established since May 2016. [39763/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of her plans to resource the courts, particularly the Circuit Court, to deal with increased non-summary prosecutions of serious crimes; and the additional resources being provided for this in 2017. [39764/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being put in place to strengthen supervision of prolific repeat offenders after they have served their prison sentences. [39765/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Administration (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she commissioned the annual study on court efficiency and sitting times benchmarked against international standards to provide accurate measurements for improving access to justice; and when it will be published. [39766/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Sittings (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish legislation to reduce excessive delays in trials and court proceedings, including pre-trial hearings. [39767/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she proposes to make an announcement on the reopening of Garda stations, including Cloughjordan Garda Station, County Tipperary. [40082/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rainwater Harvesting Systems Provision (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Irish Water can facilitate meaningful study or co-operation on the area of the right to harvest and return rain water to the sewer system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39896/16]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No 2:In page 3, to delete lines 31 and 32 and in page 4, to delete lines 1 to 7, and substitute the following:“(b) before the date of the passing of this Act, any party to those proceedings had queried, whether through pleadings or otherwise, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to adjudicate on the claim in being, or the Circuit Court had of its own motion raised...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 10:10. In page 10, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“Amendment of Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013 9. The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013 is amended by the insertion, after section 4, of the following:“Protection of tenants on repossessed land 4A. (1) Where a mortgagee goes into possession of land of a mortgagor, or...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: What is now being left in the Bill is that it is not really making provision for jurisdiction in the Circuit Court and the District Court. It is amending certain enactments concerning the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the District Court. If one looks at the contents of the Bill, sections 4 to 9, inclusive, which we have put in, are all amendments. Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, have...