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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am sorry to interrupt. Mr. Ó Broin gave a figure in his opening statement, that in the first three months of this year, Facebook removed 5.4 million items of child sexual abuse. Does Google have any figures that it can give?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: Do Ms White and Mr. Costello think that social media companies should have any specific liability or penalties imposed on them for the unknowing facilitation of child pornography?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: We all agree that we want to ensure that there is no child pornography on the Internet. We had a witness here last week, Mr. Joe McCarthy from UCD. He suggested that before a person is able to open an account with Facebook, Google or Twitter, he or she would have to provide details about his or her identity. If such a rule were in place, would that not have a significant deterrent effect on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: How does Facebook check that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: I want to let my colleagues in and so will finish here. If it were the case that there was criminal liability or penal sanction such as a fine for social media companies that happened to facilitate, unwittingly or otherwise, the publication of child sexual abuse material, would that not have a deterrent effect in reducing it and changing the companies' actions?

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation. However, I do not think it is helpful that we have to take all Stages of the legislation within three hours. It is very important legislation and while we welcome it, as legislators, we should be given an opportunity to consider it, table amendments and have them discussed in due course, and then reflect on the Second Stage...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 5:In page 22, line 14, after "remuneration" to insert the following:"or superannuation benefits or any obligation to pay contributions in or in respect of the employment". Deputy Troy is due in the Chamber presently.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the forensic science laboratory in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41758/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who claimed asylum at Dublin Airport and were denied accommodation in 2018 and to date in 2019, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41739/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officer posts that are unfilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41779/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officer posts in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41780/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount paid to private contractors to source emergency accommodation for asylum seekers since September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42047/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Acts 1994 to 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42135/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in the domestic abuse intervention unit in the north Dublin Garda division as of 2 October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42136/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for the Garda National Technical Bureau in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42137/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda community support vans attached to each Garda district in Dublin as of 2 October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42138/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional marked and unmarked cars that were allocated to Garda roads policing unit to date in 2019; and the number of vehicles withdrawn from the RPU to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42139/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 566. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of incidents of vandalism at Irish Rail that have resulted in disruptions to services in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42209/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Data (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of incidents of vandalism on the DART that have resulted in disruptions to services in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42211/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of incidents of vandalism on Dublin Bus that have resulted in disruptions to services in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42210/19]