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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The assistant commissioner can say he supports it. I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: There is one important line which assistant commissioner Jack Nolan mentioned, and I hope it is the line the media picks up on. We do not want the media picking up on the policing of the facilities. The assistant commissioner said the Garda Síochána fully supported the model which was being progressed and was aware that it was a health-led model. This is the initiative we should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Did any of the users who were spoken to raise policing issues as a concern in respect of their willingness to avail of an injecting facility service?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: To pick up on the last point, Deputy O’Callaghan is well aware that there are problems in the Bill. He admitted that on Second Stage. It is not a case that there might be issues, there are issues, as recognised by the person who moved the Bill. That is the very reason for a legislative process, with Committee and Report Stages, when amendments are put forward to rectify problems. If...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Exactly. That is the whole reason we have Committee Stage.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Tánaiste may be aware that in 2014, there was a working group set up within Government to look at the issue of voting rights for the diaspora and citizens in the North. How many times has it met and when is it due to report? Will the report contain any legislation to extend voting rights?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I only wanted to know how many times the working group met.

Prisons (Solitary Confinement) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and I commend Deputy Clare Daly on introducing it. It is one that we in Sinn Féin will be supporting. Like Deputy Clare Daly, I would also like to see the outright banning of solitary confinement. As the Deputy outlined, for reasons in respect of which we cannot really legislate, we will be fully supporting the recommendations within the...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I also commend Deputy Kenny for tabling this legislation. We in Sinn Féin support the Bill and its passage to Committee Stage. In response to the comments of Deputy Harty, I believe it is very disingenuous of any Member of this House to suggest that Deputy Kenny has put forward this Bill as a Trojan horse to try to allow for the legalisation of cannabis for recreational purposes. I...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Two quangos, yes. I accept the bona fides of Deputy Kenny and those of the Minister. I had a speech I was going to make but I feel so passionate about this that I do not want to see the House divided on this. I ask Deputy Harty, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health, to consider not dividing the House on this legislation. I understand his own personal position on the...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: There are two.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who are having their service shared by more than one child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38979/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the multidisciplinary teams in schools for children with special needs are working on a full time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38980/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount approximately it would cost his Department to provide an extra 300 full time, 22 hour weekly resource teachers annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38981/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the approximate number of vacant council properties within Cork city. [38985/16]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Amendment No. 7 relates to terminology and replaces all references to a "protected person" with the term "relevant person" to bring the section into line with other Acts. For example, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 does not use the term "protected person", but "relevant person". Acceptance of this amendment would mean the deletion of-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, section 21 of the Bill.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: We support amendment No. 10. It refers to a relevant person, which some of our amendments try to do, and does not use the term "protected person". Will the Minister reiterate why she feels there is a need to have both definitions in the legislation? I know she stated it is to bring it in line with UN regulations, but in other legislation enacted by the Oireachtas we do not refer to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister has not made any comment on amendment No. 9.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Amendment No. 9 is my own amendment in the group of amendments and the Minister has not commented on the issue in that regard. The amendment presumes that a relevant person has capacity unless the contrary is shown under the provisions of this Act.