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Harmful Communications and Digital Safety Bill 2017: First Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to consolidate and reform the criminal law concerning harmful communications, to repeal certain provisions of the Post Office (Amendment) Act 1951 and the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, to promote and encourage measures to improve digital safety for all persons, to provide for a take-down procedure for harmful...

Harmful Communications and Digital Safety Bill 2017: First Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be even shorter than Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. Sinn Féin will also be supporting the Bill which, as outlined, gives effect to the provisions of Directive 2013/40/EU. The Bill seeks to amend some existing legislation. The law on cybercrime in Ireland is somewhat outdated, fragmented across a number of pieces of legislation and unwieldy. The provisions in some of those Acts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Leaving aside the wording, would it be the preferred option of the Department to have constitutional protection? Given that Ms Graham said the Department had concerns about the current wording, has it prepared alternative drafts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is that the preferred option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Are there alternative wordings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016: Minister for Justice and Equality (25 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be brief. When Deputy O'Callaghan's Bill was going through Second Stage, we supported it because we believed there needed to be changes to how judges are appointed. Having said that, we did raise some issues about the Bill during our contribution. We said that we wanted to see it go to through to Committee Stage where we could address some of those issues. When we discussed Deputy...

Topical Issue Debate: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: This concerns the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016. This scheme is operated by local authorities and gives tenants the opportunities to buy their homes. As the Minister of State will be aware, certain categories of houses under the ownership of local authorities cannot be sold to tenants under legislation. These include properties that have been transferred to a planning authority...

Topical Issue Debate: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I acknowledge the regulations were put in place to ensure communities were of a mixed tenure and to enable integration. However, if the tenant to whom I referred were to buy her house in the morning, she would still be the same person. It will not change the make-up of the community if she transitions from a social housing tenant to the owner of her home by way of the tenant purchase...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I wish share time with my colleagues, Deputies John Brady and Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire.

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Sinn Féin welcomes the Bill before the House. In the past 12 months, I have tabled a number of questions to the Minister of State concerning his timeline for publishing legislation which will enable us to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Minister of State put a tight timeline on himself last year when he said he would publish the Bill before the...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am not suggesting he do that, but that he at least look at what the High Commissioner's office has said. No doubt, the equality division within the Department of Justice and Equality will not be sufficient to ensure full ratification. I turn to the long-term prospects for disabled people, their human rights and the ways they can participate in the democratic process. We need to look...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations that have no access to PULSE. [4493/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been an investigation carried out by the Private Security Authority or its agents into a company (details supplied) and if so, if she will make the results of the investigation available. [4631/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body that has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here. [4407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to Cork North Central during 2015 and 2016. [4403/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to Cork North Central by his Department for tourism and hospitality skills during 2015 and 2016. [4406/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the criteria for replacing substandard, damaged or overcrowded mobile homes for members of the Traveller community; and the resources available for local authorities, either from their own resources or through his Department, to allow replacements to take place. [4495/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to Cork North Central by his Department for tourism and hospitality skills during 2015 and 2016. [4405/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yesterday was the deadline for the HPRA review into the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Is the Taoiseach aware of whether the Minister received the report on time yesterday and if he did, when it will be made available to the House?