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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Policies (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 210. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the incentives, excluding new gratuity rates that have been made available to underpin the incentivised regimes policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26434/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Policies (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 212. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if individual incentivised regime policies have been introduced in each prison; if he will details these individual policies; the number of prisoners involved in these policies in each prison; if he will make a statement on the matter. [26436/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Staff (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 211. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of officers that have been made available to integrated sentence management in each prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26435/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs in Prisons (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 213. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the review carried out in 2012 by the Irish Prison Service of the Irish Prison Service Clinical Drug Treatment Policy; the policies it produced; the extent to which those policies have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26437/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will suspend the meeting until 6 p.m. to accommodate the Minister. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and his officials. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013. The Bill was referred to the select committee by Dáil Éireann on 23 May 2013. Is it agreed that we try to conclude the Bill tonight? Rather than putting a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps I can add my tuppence worth with an observation that could be clarified. Doing the sums, the ratio in the House is approximately 69:31. There was a discussion earlier about trying to create a special committee. I am not too sure of the observation that a chair from the Opposition would be more impartial and the issue is subjective. Nevertheless, there is an issue of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: How stands the amendment?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendment No. 9 is in the name of the Minister. Amendments Nos. 9 and 11 are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 12,17 and 18 are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will retain that ruling for the remainder of the evening.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Is Deputy Donnelly indicating?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will leave section 18 until we arrive at it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendment No. 13 is in the name of Deputy Stephen Donnelly. Amendments Nos. 13 to 15, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will leave it until then.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 13 to 15, inclusive, are being discussed together, Deputy, if you wish to discuss them as well.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I invite Deputy Mary Lou McDonald to speak I will offer some observations. Any committee report that requires a vote to get over the line is diminished. I have never been involved in a committee process, either in Opposition or in Government, in which we have voted something through. Perhaps the Minister will clarify the position. It is not that there are recommendations as such,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: You would be open to-----