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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Dr. Gallagher. Is the Senator happy with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Senator Black's colleague, Senator Ó Donnghaile, wanted to make another brief contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have to say, because it is deserved, that the Senator made an exceptional contribution this morning out of his own personal experience-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are not sure what passport the Senator carries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do not be at it, Mick. I thank the colleagues but I have some brief questions. I will not open them up to everybody. The first is for Ms Logan. I refer to the list of key recommendations. In terms of the construct of it, No. 6 states: The right to participation in public life is another aspect of the North-South equivalence of rights under the 1998 Agreement. It is important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not just to offer it to those who have exercised, by choice, their entitlement to Irish citizenship and thereby EU citizenship.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not what you are saying there. It struck me as a little odd. The other point about it is the right to participation in public life. That is not just exercising our right to use our franchise to exercise our right to vote. The right to participation in public life also includes the role I and my colleagues play as elected representatives. I would think it has to be taken in its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was on the use of the word "exceptionally".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are on the one page so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rights and Equality in the Context of Brexit: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am grateful for the clarification because that is where my head would be in that regard. We are almost at an end. I know the full membership of the committee is not present but we do not want to lose into the ether all that the witnesses have shared with us or for us to be the only people to go off with this enhanced knowledge and awareness. Perhaps members of the committee might...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek a definitive answer on the current status of the application process for the approval of nusinersen, or Spinraza. The parents of the 25 children involved and others who require this life-saving drug are at their wits' end and are desperately seeking information as to when a decision will be made. The parents group is meeting on Sunday. I appeal to the Minister of State not to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State update us this afternoon?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Funding (24 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As there are three Members who wish to contribute and only four minutes in which to speak, I know the Acting Chairman will exercise a degree of leniency. I welcome the fact that the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Catherine Byrne, is here, but I really believe that the responsible Minister should be here in the first instance. The Irish Deaf Society is the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Funding (24 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I know this is not of the construct of the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne. Nevertheless, she has said the HSE can only fund organisations for the purposes of providing health services on its behalf. Who would argue that the provision of Irish Sign Language skills does not meet this requirement? Such skills provide the opportunity to be able to communicate to people who otherwise would be...

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Tonight the Government has an opportunity to do something it has not done since it entered office following the collapsing of the economy and our society by Fianna Fáil in collaboration with the banks and their powerful interests. In those dark days the banks ran roughshod over the people and the State authorities mandated to protect them, most especially the Central Bank, abrogated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (29 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protection applicants residing in emergency beds by location; the number of single males; the number of single females; the number of families; the number of children under 18 years of age; the contact person for each centre in each case; the person or body by which each emergency location was secured; the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This meeting has been convened for consideration of Committee Stage of the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016. Members are reminded of the longstanding parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against either a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. I also...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before proceeding with the amendments, I must advise members that I was given notice by the Bills Office last evening in respect of a number of amendments. It is the responsibility of the Chair in upholding Standing Orders to sign off on the notification of the disallowance of amendments that are deemed not to be in order. However, on first perusal, for which I only had an opportunity late...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The office can advise but I can quote from the guidelines for Chairs issued in June 2016, as I have taken the time and trouble to read it. It states clearly, on page three of eight, that the "decision of the Chairman regarding the disallowance of amendments is final". I have highlighted it and I rest my case on that decision. I ask members not to elongate or prolong unnecessarily address...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is my final contribution on the matter. I had no reasonable time to make a judgment on the amendments other than by giving them a cursory reading. I am in a position to contest the views presented in most of these. In the absence of the opportunity to engage further, I do not intend, as Chairman of the committee, to thwart an effort to further underscore the rights of people with...