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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: When the Minister published the report, she said she would ask the Garda Commissioner to examine it and indicate what further measures might be taken to prevent this type of difficulty in the future. She said she would seek the Commissioner’s proposals concerning the implementation of the recommendations made. Given the nature of reports in recent days, particularly in the Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The statement of clarification last night actually clarifies nothing. There is an issue that needs to be clarified because there are media reports that state the media have seen documentation alleging the Garda Commissioner instructed her legal team to insinuate malice on the part of Sergeant McCabe. If that is the case, it calls into question her credibility. If she is saying one thing in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Drugs Strategy (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 5. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if taking a harm-reduction approach to drug law reform has a role in tackling organised crime. [10197/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Drugs Strategy (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I agree we must have an holistic and multifaceted approach but the one constant which has remained for the past 30 or 40 years, as far back as the 1970s, is the criminalisation of the addicts themselves. This policy has completely failed. We now have a situation where more people are addicted to drugs and we have more drug-related deaths than ever before. This policy is counter-productive...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Drugs Strategy (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does the Minister agree there needs to be a change in the legal status of drugs if the Government is to bring about medically supervised injection centres? If there is to be a health-led approach to harm reduction, it indicates the legal status of some drugs needs to be examined. The national drugs strategy is a five pillar strategy but some of these pillars are falling down....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the processing times for European Union treaty rights visa applications for qualifying family members; and the steps she is taking to ensure compliance with the requirement to process such applications on the basis of an accelerated procedure. [10157/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to introduce legislative provisions in the forthcoming legislation amending the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau to direct moneys seized by the bureau back to the communities that are worst affected by crime. [10156/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bail Law (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend bail conditions. [10376/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a public defender system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10377/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the Teaching Council's review of the Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2009 under the Teaching Council Acts; if draft regulations have been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9382/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the review of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme. [9697/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review procedures for parents to access teachers under the July provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9718/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that a person (details supplied) is being refused a reader for the leaving certificate examination in June 2016, despite having had a reader for the junior certificate; and to reverse this decision. [10118/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to change the policy under the reasonable accommodations scheme given the recent court decision on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Advisory Group (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the Drugs Advisory Group. [9805/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, can fast-track applications by elderly persons who were adopted in childhood and who are seeking to access information regarding their birth family; and if she has examined the potential for this process to be put in place. [9627/16]

Order of Business (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Taoiseach is not ignorant.

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I also congratulate the Minister of State on her appointment. I do not have much time but I could speak for an hour on this issue. I am glad the three Ministers in the Department are present because one of the issues I have come across is that of dual diagnosis where somebody has a mental health issue and an addiction and how they are dealt with. There is no single solution. Everyone has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding and resources she will ring-fence in budget 2017 to ensure the full implementation of the Istanbul Convention, the second national strategy on gender-based violence and the victims Directive, as promised in the programme for Government. [11175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 75. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that all ranks in An Garda Síochána are diligent in taking proper units, and that unit sergeants regularly monitor the performance of their unit members in this regard, as set out in the recommendations of the Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to the Cavan/Monaghan Division of the Garda...