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

Jonathan O'Brien: Is there a reason we are not dealing with other amendments that relate to this section? I believe the next set, amendments Nos. 37 to 40, inclusive, also covers this section.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be withdrawing my amendments too.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: It was drafted in a rush.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: I will withdraw my amendments in light of what the Minister has said.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 38: In page 25, to delete lines 18 to 40, and in page 26, to delete lines 1 to 3.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 39: In page 26, between lines 3 and 4 to insert the following: “(l) records relating to therapy or counselling shall form no part, partial or otherwise, of any assessment regarding a relevant record likely to be relevant to an issue at trial or to the competence of a complainant or witness to testify.”.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 77. In page 27, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "(c) Communicating his or her consent to that act (whether by talking, writing, using sign language, assistive technology, or any other means)." It is a drafting error, so I will withdraw it and resubmit it on Report Stage.

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

Jonathan O'Brien: Could I confirm that this amendment, even though it does not refer to a protected person, goes back to the issue of protected persons?

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

Jonathan O'Brien: I wish to note our opposition to the amendment because it contains the term "protected persons".

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Suicide Prevention (13 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the suicide prevention training available to gardaí; and the percentage of Gardaí that have taken this training up. [39846/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Suicide Prevention (13 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the suicide prevention training available to prison staff; and the percentage of prison staff that have taken this training up. [39847/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Suicide Incidence (13 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suicides and parasuicides during each of the past ten years in Irish prisons. [39902/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Suicide Prevention (13 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of members of each local suicide and self-harm prevention group in each Irish prison; and the number of times and the dates each of those groups has met during each year since their establishment. [39908/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Anti-Racism Measures (14 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the latest iReport from the European Network Against Racism Ireland and that this report details 190 reports of racist incidents for a six month period, higher than all previously recorded periods; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that this includes at least 150 criminal offences, 79...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (14 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 69. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation on hate crimes. [40208/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which Ireland will ratify the Istanbul Convention. [40595/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I ask the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, who I presume will take this question, the date on which the Istanbul Convention will be ratified.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I would welcome that information if the Minister could forward it to me. On the items of legislation, the pre-legislative scrutiny of the domestic violence Bill took place in September of last year. I know events probably overtook its publication in recent months given the issue around Garda pay and other issues which have arisen. It is the Minister's intention to publish both Bills and...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will speak to amendment No. 55 and not make a Second Stage speech. I will be very brief. I spoke to a number of people last night in my constituency, which is to be designated as a rent pressure zone, and there was a great deal of fear among many of those who are renting privately. They are really struggling and the only certainty they see, which may be down to the narrative in this...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: -----is going to work in partnership with those on rent allowance, housing assistance payment, HAP, but in particular rent supplement and how that is going to play out over years one, two and three? We are putting in place a policy that gives landlords free rein to increase prices up to in excess of €940 over the next three years, based on the average in my constituency. Those people...