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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: 1128. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue for a person (details supplied). [55068/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: 1282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the deadline for Glas first-tranche applicants beyond 10 November 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: 1283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has engaged local farmers in advance of the launch of the current ACRES scheme to elicit feedback on sustainability and conservation of the rural landscape; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54996/22]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: Is this just extending section 25 on foot of the Supreme Court ruling?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: It may be certified without proof of the signature. Is it just dealing with the signature and with the actual evidence of what marks were there and what harm was caused?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: The Minister probably accepts that the GP or registered medical practitioner is not required to attend court in 90% of cases. Would the Minister accept that it is unusual for doctors to need to attend court? It is just a question of covering all instances of where attendance may be required.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: I have slight concerns about these provisions. They relate not so much to the later ones, which relate to analysing drugs, for example, but to where a medical practitioner is giving evidence of what he or she saw. In such cases, will there still be an opportunity for the evidence to be tested in the courts and cross-examined? Often, it is only when evidence arises to the effect that there...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: If there is concern over what was said and what occurred at the time of the examination-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: -----may the relevant registered medical practitioner be called?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: The one who signed off on the certificate.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: I reserve the right to return to this on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: I understand and appreciate it is in the interest of the defendant receiving a fair trial. The Minister said witnesses may not want to give evidence due to fear or intimidation. Is she speaking about members of the Garda?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: Is this provision only for Special Criminal Court or gangland cases? Could it be in any case?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: Could it apply to a District Court case?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: Does it apply to every witness, including Garda, retired Garda and civilian witnesses?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: Witnesses may be reluctant to give evidence for a number of reasons. The Minister would accept that.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: I am just thinking of a sexual assault or rape case years ago in which there was a conviction. An office I was involved with was contacted the following day by a solicitor from another part of the country who said the witness was totally unreliable. In fact, another judge had said the witness was totally unreliable and a fantasist. As a consequence, the conviction was overturned and a...