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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will return to this later. I want to allow my colleagues in in the order they indicated.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have a couple of points of my own. The way I look at it, there are a couple of things involved. On ownership of the whole thing, there were some initial comments made about departmental ownership. I very much welcome the decision of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, on this and his implementation of the pilot programme. I would strongly suggest that the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: If there are no further questions I would like to thank the witnesses for attending here today. We appreciate the work being carried out. It has been a very interesting and worthwhile exchange. As there is no further business I propose to conclude our meeting. The committee stands adjourned until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 February, when we will be hearing from the National Women's Council of...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Fianna Fáil Ministers used to appear in such campaigns and advertisements.

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Relax, relax.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have received apologies from Deputy Donnelly. A pilot approach to gender budgeting has been adopted in the Revised Estimates for public services 2018, published in December. At last week's session we engaged with officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the general budget indicators that form part of that pilot. Today the committee will meet with...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I was delighted to circulate the documents. It is a worthwhile topic the Deputy has raised. We will get a chance to look at that in more detail I hope.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: It can form part of our discussion. However, we are the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and we can-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: -----have a right to look at it and make recommendations. I think that will come up. If there is nothing else we will go into private session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Before we begin this session I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones or at least to put them in airplane mode. Interference from mobile phones affects the sound quality in transmission of the proceedings. I welcome Eilís Ní Chaithnía, policy co-ordinator and Jennifer McCarthy, head of policy, at the National Women's Council of Ireland, NWCI. I thank...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witness for her opening statement. We propose to publish it, along with the research report, which was circulated to us. Before I open the floor to members, do either of the witnesses want to contribute anything at this point? If they want to feed into members' questions at any point please do so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: On a point of information, we are planning a video conference link between our committee here and the Scottish committee. It will cover a number of areas, and this will certainly be one of the areas on the agenda.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses. This was a very worthwhile engagement which will tie in with what we heard from the officials in the Department last week. We appreciate the work the witnesses are carrying out on this project and the very heavy involvement they have had in it. I thank them for attending and for contributing to our process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I know they have covered a lot of ground with my colleagues so far. I have a couple of points I wish to touch on, and I will try not to go over issues that have been dealt with already. My first question is more relevant to Ms West who has been working with An Garda Síochána for ten years. What the witnesses have described of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I fully appreciate what Ms West has said. I appreciate and echo her sentiments that there are many excellent officers in An Garda Síochána who work above and beyond the call of duty to ensure the Garda delivers on solving crime and in its day-to-day work. However, I want to go back to the other part of what Ms West said. It strikes me, listening to the answer she gave - and I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: Just as a comment, rather than a question, to Ms West, I think over a ten year learning curve many of what were the very senior Garda officers recently would have been in the lower ranks, learning, I hope, before they got to their very senior ranks. I want to link the witnesses to this to bring the meeting up to this particular sequence of meetings we are going through. There seems to me to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: Therefore, if it was not just serving Garda officers, would the witnesses' effective boss be the person present at those meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: These were the meetings that the witnesses felt they were excluded from that looked at the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will move on to one aspect of this that I cannot fully understand. I raised it at our last meeting. If the meeting of the Policing Authority took place on 27 April, how did it take until 8 May for a request that this unsatisfactory report be commented on? Dr. Singh said to me, when I asked him about this, that he tried to get the report. I am totally confused as to how something can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: Ms West therefore thinks it was a deliberate decision, even after it had been presented to the Policing Authority, not to share it with her and Ms Galligan.