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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the assistant commissioner wants to come back in at any time, he should please just take the initiative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is a little healthy competition ongoing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will Mr. Todd comment on the newcomer community issue as well? That is an important point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask Mr. Leahy to comment on the issues that have been raised. I remind Mr. Todd that Senator Ó Donnghaile also asked about restorative justice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask Mr. Todd to think about his response while the assistant commissioner is contributing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the assistant commissioner. Does the assistant chief constable wish to come back in on restorative justice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Our final speaker from the panel is Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Mr. Todd.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would the Assistant Chief Constable like to offer an additional view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Good news for Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will make just a couple of points on my own behalf. Mr. Todd's response to the inquiry about Brexit echoed almost verbatim what I received last week from the executive director of Europol. I am part of the 28-member joint policing scrutiny group across the European Union. I put the question to the new executive director, Ms Catherine De Bolle. I listened carefully to Mr. Todd and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would hope that Brexit is not the prompt that results in additional resourcing; I hope it is for other, better reasons in terms of everything else we have discussed today. On the matter of the assembly and Mr. Todd's reference earlier to statutory compulsion, my colleagues have picked up on that and it is very important and useful information. As Chairman of the committee, and in view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Next week, the committee will be meeting representatives of the Irish Farmers Association and the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association. We are looking forward to that and no doubt some of the matters discussed today will be reflected very strongly by those organisations. We will have Mr. Todd's former colleague and Mr. Finn's and Mr. Leahy's new Commissioner before us on 24 October...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Despite seven years having elapsed since the inspection of places of detention Bill first appeared on the Government's legislative programme, we still await its publication. This Bill would provide for Ireland's ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture, OPCAT. With some 90 states having ratified the protocol, it is to our collective shame that this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Seven years is a long time for something to be in preparation.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Products Supply (11 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I ask for clarification on why the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, is not here? It is less than half an hour since he was sitting in the front row on the Government side of the House, then he left. It is the Minister, Deputy Harris, who should be taking this Topical Issue matter as the Minister for Health. I say that with no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Products Supply (11 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have had no such courtesy extended to me on this Topical Issue matter. I have been in correspondence with the Minister, Deputy Harris, on this matter and I have engaged with him. I am very disappointed that he has failed to present here this afternoon. I will continue, however. The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, is a parent. The Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, is not yet...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Products Supply (11 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State's response rehashes much of what the Minister, Deputy Harris, put in his letter to me just a few short weeks ago. There is absolutely no question as to the clinical effectiveness of Spinraza. This is a proven medicine and one that has been granted market authorisation by the European Medicines Agency. It is outrageous that we are going through a process that is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At what point is the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill? It must be signed into law. Will the Minister advise the House on the timeframe for the matter to conclude? There are parents on whom it will have an impact if it is not presented shortly.