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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Communications (11 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: The Oversight Agreement between the Charities Regulator and my Department states that the Minister and the Chair and Chief Executive of the Regulator should meet formally once a year. I met formally with the Chair and the Chief Executive of the Charities Regulator on 27 September 2023. A new Chair, Mr. Gerry Kearney, was appointed to the Charities Regulator on 28 February 2024, and I met...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: Ireland and many other European countries continue to experience a significant increase in people seeking international protection. The arrival numbers remain significantly elevated. In the first 23 weeks of 2024, more than 9,000 people arrived in Ireland seeking accommodation from the State, an average of 394 people per week. This is more than five times the average for the period 2017...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I want to push back on the Deputy's assertion that people are being lied to or are being told mistruths and untruths. It is very problematic and, frankly, it feeds the people who are spreading lies. What the Deputy said is simply not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: When we have information that is available to share, we share it. These are fluid circumstances. Sometimes circumstances change regarding capacity, in what the provider is able to do and as to what we are able to tell people. There are fluid circumstances. We have unaccommodated people. We are trying to move as quickly as we can. The problem with that is when we give people information...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I again refute the word "lie". The Deputy was not lied to. What happens is, because these situations are fluid and because we move early, that information can change. What little bit of knowledge I have of the situation to which he refers, information changed and was not communicated in a way it should have been. That is very different from being lied to. Members of the CET are trying...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I can only talk about the community engagement team and how it is working. It is working very well because there are lots of places opening and there is not an issue because the information is getting out. It has not worked perfectly everywhere but we are learning as we go along and it is improving.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I echo the Deputy's acknowledgment of the community's efforts and the community's backing of the Ukrainians living there. We see this across the country. It does not get coverage. Maybe in situations such as this it does, but this is the story across the country. There are compliance issues. We have to take them very seriously. That said, we have been cognisant of the fact that people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: The Deputy will be aware that I have spoken on this issue already. I acknowledge the commitment of the people of Borrisokane to the new arrivals. It is not unique, as the Deputy will have seen from the case in County Clare. There are other situations around the country where people are housed in international protection accommodation on the assumption that it is temporary. I have read the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (18 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's Community Services Programme (CSP) supports over 430 community-based organisations, to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution towards each full-time equivalent (FTE) position being supported, and, where warranted, towards the cost of employing a manager. An application window for funding additional staff...

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 9 to 11 and substitute the following: “corroborated particulars of death certificates; to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 and the Civil Registration Act 2019; and to provide for related matters.”. The first amendment proposes to amend the Long Title of the Civil...

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, to delete line 16 and substitute the following: “(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “such required particulars of the death concerned as may be specified by an tArd-Chláraitheoir” for “the required particulars of the death concerned and that registrar shall register the death in such manner as an...

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 3: In page 12, to delete lines 20 to 22 and substitute the following: “(a) give the appropriate registrar a certificate containing such required particulars of the death concerned as may be specified by an tArd-Chláraitheoir, or”.

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 4: In page 12, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(c) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (2): “(2A) Upon receipt of a certificate furnished under subsection (1) or (2)(a), a registrar shall serve a notice on a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 37(1) requiring the person— (a) to...

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 5: In page 16, to delete lines 17 and 18 and substitute the following: “(b) an entry in the register of deaths where subsection (3A) or (3C) of section 37 applies or where subsection (2E) of section 41 applies.”.”.

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 6: In page 18, after line 24, to insert the following: “PART 5 AMENDMENT OF CIVIL REGISTRATION ACT 2019Amendment of section 6 of Civil Registration Act 2019 25. Section 6 of the Civil Registration Act 2019 is amended by the deletion of paragraph (a).”.

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: In page 17, line 28, to delete “shall, on the specified date, remove” and substitute “shall remove”. I am delighted to be here today to commence Report and Final Stages of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023 with officials from my Department. The purpose of the Bill is to strengthen the charity sector, ensuring greater transparency,...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 2: In page 19, line 16, to delete “subsection (9)” and substitute “subsection (1A) or (9)”.

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 3: In page 33, line 23, to delete “88D” and substitute “88C”. I want to speak to amendment No. 9 first as the remaining amendments are technical in nature. Amendment No. 9 updates Part 6A of the Bill, which relates to the entering of agreements and making of appointments by a charitable organisation. The provisions in Part 6A of the...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 4: In page 35, to delete line 21 and substitute “Agreements and Appointments”.

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I move amendment No. 5: In page 36, to delete lines 11 and 12.