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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: We are on section 16, amendments Nos. 44 and 45.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Section 16, amendments Nos. 44 and 45. The amendment is also in the name of Deputies Joan Collins and Shortall.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Does the Minister wish to comment?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Yes. We are discussing the two amendments together. The question on them will be put separately.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Is the Deputy pressing the amendments?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Amendments Nos. 46 to 48, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: I thank the Minister and her officials for their attendance and colleagues for staying on a little later to conclude this legislation. I understand Report Stage will be taken fairly shortly.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (17 May 2018)

John Curran: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection has completed its consideration of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 and has made amendments thereto.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

John Curran: It is unusual for me to contribute to a debate on Report Stage when I am not on the committee but I have listened to this debate for some time and I wonder if common sense has gone out the window altogether. We are proposing the establishment of a commission with 17 people. I think most right-minded people in this House do not believe that is an efficient commission or that it represents...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

John Curran: I genuinely believe it. I believe we are establishing the commission on fundamentally the wrong grounds, that is, to satisfy the desire of the Minister, Deputy Ross, to have a commission of this scale. I have listened to many people debate this and to a lot of the discussion both in the House today and previously. Nobody has put forward a compelling reason we would need such a large...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

John Curran: While I do not dispute that these amendments, when tabled, were all in order, they were contingent on one another and were taken in a particular sequence. It seems to me - and this is a ruling for the Ceann Comhairle to make - that once amendment No. 8, which restricted the number to 13 as per the original Bill and did not permit the commission to number 17, was carried, the other amendments...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

John Curran: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to make a ruling on this before we continue with the other amendments that are related.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (22 May 2018)

John Curran: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the adequacy of the capitation grant payable to schools to meet the operational costs associated with running a school; his plans to introduce an enhanced capitation payment for DEIS schools which have significant difficulties fundraising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 May 2018)

John Curran: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the annual rate of enrolment in key apprenticeship trades in order to meet the demand for construction workers by 2020 to meet increased construction output in house and infrastructure development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22270/18]

Other Questions: Cyberbullying Issues (23 May 2018)

John Curran: This issue was raised yesterday in the audiovisual room of Leinster House, where the mother of a young girl who took her own life gave a very powerful and telling presentation on what her daughter endured as a result of physical bullying and cyberbullying. She spoke of the impact of her daughter's suicide on herself and on her 14 year old son who found his sister hanging from a dog lead in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

John Curran: We have raised this matter before. At the end of February there were 52,000 people in receipt of home support services but there were 6,000 people waiting for those services. These are people who are in hospital or who might have come home and who have been approved and it is causing considerable difficulties. I acknowledge the 52,000 figure is up on last year but my point is that the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

John Curran: There is obviously a degree of urgency to enact legislation around the area of judicial appointments. I understand there are a number of appointments that have not been made to the Court of Appeal and that dates for cases in the Court of Appeal are now being set in 2020. The first question I ask the Minister is whether judicial appointments now are effectively frozen because that is a...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

John Curran: It is not even the issue.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

John Curran: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle said specifically that amendment No. 7a, in the name of Deputy Wallace, could not be addressed, that the Ceann Comhairle had made a ruling and we are where we are. The confusion still exists, however. We are still discussing a Bill and amendments without knowing whether there are to be 13 or 17 members of the commission. We do not know if the Attorney General is...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

John Curran: We are asking for that.