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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 75: In page 44, before line 1, to insert the following:“Central Register for Statutory Declarations for Joint Guardianship 6C.The Minister shall cause to be established and maintained a register to be known as the Central Register for Statutory Declarations for Joint Guardianship, the purpose of which is to provide protection for the statutory declaration...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé sásta leis an freagra but I find that what is not in the legislation tends not to happen for quite a while.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 76: In page 52, to delete lines 31 to 36.This section provides for fees. While it may not be the intention of the Minister to introduce fees, the legislation enables his successor to do so. Research published in Britain this year by the Citizens Advice Bureau revealed that seven out of ten potentially successful cases by employees against their employers are not going...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 91: In page 62, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(2) Section 1(3) of the Act of 1984 is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph:"(e) the employer is deemed to be insolvent in circumstances where he has ceased trading and payments to employees have been determined by the Minister to have de factobeen stopped on a permanent basis for a period...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: His ego was more seriously injured.

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would like to say dobranocand witam wasto our guests in the Gallery. It is important for us to have this debate. I wish to move our amendment to the motion.

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I will have. I move amendment No. 1:After "integration and new communities", to insert the following paragraph:"calls on the Minister to outline to the Seanad his plans to deal with the estimated 30,000 undocumented people in Ireland and to inform the Seanad of what action, if any, he intends to take to address the humanitarian crisis in the Direct Provision System."It is important to...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin calls on the Minister to begin the immediate phasing out of the system over a 12-month period. In the interim, oversight of the system should be given to the Ombudsman for Children and to the Office of the Ombudsman, with immediate effect. The Committee of Public Accounts should be given responsibility for oversight of all financial transactions relating to the system. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is it members only?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Irish Language Education: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá me fíor-bhuíoch don dream a thug fianaise agus as ucht an deis a bheith againn an plé seo a bheith againn mar sílim go bhfuil muid ag plé cuid de na ceisteanna is tromchúisí ó thaobh oideachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go mbeadh muid á phlé sin. Tá sé ar nós go bhfuil an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus tréaslaím leis. Tá sé ráite leis cheana go bhfuil sé ag gniomhú ar an gceist seo agus aontaím go hiomlán leis go bhfuil sé fíor-thábhachtach gníomhú ar an gceist. We could discuss many issues relating to direct provision, but we-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I will focus on a number of issues. I have been on trips to some of the centres. Many issues were raised concerning the system's oversight, which was the initial reason for this meeting. The Ombudsman also raised issues. We have received interesting presentations. For example, Doras Luimní highlighted how social services had been alerted to more than 1,500 child protection or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Based on that, does the Minister of State accept what the Ombudsman for Children and the Ombudsman are saying? Even if a stay were to last no longer than six months, such a system would need an independent oversight mechanism. It is unacceptable that there is no such mechanism in place currently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Minister of State alluded to something that is key to most of the issues, namely, signing up to the EU's reception directive. It is a fundamental principle, but the decision to sign up can only be taken by the Government. That decision will inform whatever legislation is to be introduced. My understanding is that only two EU countries have not signed up to the directive. It would give...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes. Many of the issues raised with us when we visited the centres related to how people must sit around in centres, cannot work and have no right to an education. A part of the reason given for this is that we have not signed up to the reception directive, which would give people those rights. Whenever this matter was raised in the Houses, we were told that the directive would be covered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is the Minister of State concerned that one of the key stakeholders in the working group resigned last week because it was not allowed to comment on the heads of the Bill? The group requested that the heads and the legislation's extent be discussed. The stakeholder stated that issues like the reception directive, which should be taken on board during the Bill's development, were not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is what Ms Conlan said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is important to put on record that Ms Sue Conlan has spoken for herself. In her letter of resignation she said:The decision not to allow the Working Group, which contains experts on international protection law as well as lay people, to have sight of and indeed comment upon the Heads of the Bill is regrettable. In addition, the intransigence from officials from the Department of Justice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Was there an initial tender process?