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Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Amendments Nos. 1 to 7, inclusive, and 10 to 13, inclusive are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Before I go to the Minister, would anybody else like to contribute? Deputy Ward has already indicated. Then I will call on Deputy Brabazon and Deputy Gannon.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Before I return to the Minister, does any member of the committee wish to speak again?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Unless the Minister has something else to add, I am going to put the question on amendment No. 1. For the record, is Deputy Carthy pressing his amendment?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Do any other members wish to say anything?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Everyone will have a chance to come back in after the Minister's response.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I thank the Minister. I come back to Deputy Kelly to make any final contribution.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: That was just the question I was going to ask.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Before we go to the Minister, would any other members like to contribute? I call Deputy Carthy.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Are there any final remarks from Deputy Kelly?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I will allow Deputy Carthy to come in again before we finish with section 3.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Message to Dáil (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: As consideration of the Bill has been completed, in accordance with Standing Order 110, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has completed its consideration of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025 and has made no amendments thereto. On behalf of the committee, I thank the...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Message to Dáil (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: As there is no other business, this meeting of the select committee is adjourned sine die.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will, in the interests of equity, seek an increase in cadets' pay to bring it in line with the starting pay of a three-star private given both are similarly trained and qualified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49483/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: In the interests of equity, will the Tánaiste seek an increase in the starting pay of cadets to bring it line with the starting pay of a three-star private, as both are similarly trained and qualified?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I thank the Tánaiste. I acknowledge his work to date on improving pay and conditions, some of which he has outlined such as quite rightly increasing pay for three-star privates and reforming the apprenticeship pathway so that technical staff beginning their careers in the Defence Forces correspond with three-star privates after six months. The Tánaiste has also overseen the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I thank the Tánaiste, and I am happy to hear that it is with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. I implore him to follow that matter up with the Department, as neither the conciliation and arbitration scheme or national pay talks are going to address this low pay, given the no cost increasing caveat in the national pay deals,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 87. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for an expansion of the funding of the circular economy innovation grant scheme in 2025. [49232/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the funding that has been spent in this important area. In the most recent round of funding, small commercial start-ups and SMEs dominated the list of companies that had been awarded funding with only two, The Rediscovery Centre and We Make Good, accurately described as community enterprises. While these commercial start-up contributions to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: That is music to my ears. I am glad to hear that. I wish to follow up on the Minister of State's point. There has been a large degree of support from the local authorities in Carlow and Kilkenny and they have been proactive with circular economy initiatives. For example, Carlow County Council recently completed a survey of businesses in the county to assess attitudes towards the circular...