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Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Anne Ferris: Regarding subsection (d), on the quorum, if the Minister is considering changing the number of members from 11 to 13 on Report Stage, would he also consider changing the quorum from seven to nine?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Anne Ferris: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: What exactly does Mr. Justice Quirke mean by the cyber area? Is he talking about Facebook and other forms of social media?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: As the Chairman says, it is very timely for us to be talking about that because we hear so much about the bullying of children and teenagers on social media which, regrettably, has caused many of them to take their own lives, which is tragic. On the other hand, one has the more subtle bullying of politicians on the Internet, including Facebook. Mr. Justice Quirke mentioned incitement to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: It would be very difficult.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: The Garda superintendent in my home town of Bray told me about it. He said there is no legislation to stop people from doing this, chanting and appearing outside someone's home. Their hands are tied.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: This is not dull at all. This is an area in which any Member would be interested. There was an issue in my own constituency, which I raised at the Committee of Public Accounts when I was a member, regarding the acquisition of land through CPO by the local authority. Contracts were signed in the first few weeks but because of debt, disputes about who owned the land and this, that and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: That is an important issue because the taxpayer paid for this land. The value was inflated but the local authority had no choice but to pay it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fourth Programme of Law Reform: Discussion with Law Reform Commission (25 Sep 2013)

Anne Ferris: It should be simplified.

Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: I welcome the Bill. Legislation on the collection and management of DNA evidence is long overdue. This is an example of our laws playing catch-up with modern medical science. It has taken a while to get this right, but it seems that the Bill is a responsible balance between the use of modern science for the public good and maintaining the legal rights of the accused in criminal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: I thank everybody who came in today and made a presentation. Most of the members have gone through the submissions in detail and it was good to hear the main points the witnesses had to make today. On the Chairman's direction, I will do my best not to make a speech. I suppose it is a little confusing for the lay person who is not involved in the business to differentiate between amusement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: To the licensed operators, to Mr. Galvin. I note that he represents the Licenced Gaming Association of Ireland, LGAI, and I am not too sure what is the difference between his association and Mr. Roche's association. I am not asking this question; it is a rhetorical question. Do I take it that the members of Mr. Roche's association do not have gaming licences? I will ask this question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: I agree with Mr. Roche that it is a mess. I am not too sure how this came to be provided for in the 1992 Finance Act. Are members which the association represents applying for licences through the courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: The application is made in writing to Revenue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: There is contradictory evidence in both. I presume if I were operating a small shop such as a hairdressing salon and wanted to install one of these machines on the premises, I would require a licence. From what we are hearing - I have read many of the submissions - some operators do not have licences. Reference was made to the local authorities. I live in Bray. Bray Town Council banned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: I have one question about addiction, but I will wait until later to ask it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: I agree with the point made by Ms Kerins. Perhaps there might be a role for the independent regulator. Certainly the way things were-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: -----the Department of Justice and Equality and the Garda Síochána had a better regulatory system than the Revenue Commissioners. God bless them, but people from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners could go in and be told that a certain machine was not a gaming machine and they might not have known the difference. I probably would not know the difference. That is wrong. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: He did not get a good crack of the whip.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Heads of the Gambling Control Bill 2013: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Anne Ferris: My question is about the banning of machines from places families frequent such as hotels, pubs, hairdressing salons and so on and how they should be located in properly licensed places.