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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Inquiries into Garda Activities (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Even in the Minister's response, we only got as far as 2014 in terms of the number of inquiries and tribunals. We have had recent scandals and internal investigations into Garda mismanagement and internal activities, including on breath tests, fixed charge notice penalties and Templemore. The commission has been established and Sinn Féin also welcomes it. It is proper that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Inquiries into Garda Activities (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: One advantage of the commission is that we do not have to wait 18 months for recommendations. While not wishing to interfere with the work of the commission, it is quite obvious that a number of immediate concerns need to be addressed by the commission and I hope they will be addressed in a timely fashion. If we are to restore public confidence in our policing services, then it is...

Other Questions: Compensation Schemes (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Has the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality's attention been drawn to the fact that the Justice for the Forgotten group has tried to secure funding for a small number of victims of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings who were referred by a general practitioner and that this request has been denied by the Victims of Crime Office?

Other Questions: Compensation Schemes (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: As the Minister is aware, I am taking this on behalf of Deputy Crowe and I do not have the level of detail that he would have. The information which has been passed onto me is that there has been ongoing funding for physical injuries, including access to funding for hearing aids. However, the issue he has raised with me concerns cases where people have been referred for counselling and...

Other Questions: Compensation Schemes (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I appreciate that the Minister is giving the information as she has it, as I am doing. I will revert to Deputy Crowe and relay to him the Minister's response. If he knows of individual cases that have been denied counselling services, I will ask him to take it up directly with her office.

Other Questions: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is a conspiracy. It interferes with the bugging devices.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Data (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria used by her officials to determine whether a person is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning when the person is applying for asylum in circumstances in which that is a factor in the person's application. [23555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action she has taken regarding the errors in Garda breath testing and reports provided on same. [23557/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a case in which a member of An Garda Síochána filmed the arrest of a vulnerable person with mental health problems in Dublin city centre; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this footage was subsequently circulated online to the distress of the person's family; if her...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Constitutional Amendments (23 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to hold a referendum to repeal the constitutional provision concerning blasphemy. [23559/17]

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Deputy Clare Daly outlined the position very well. My preference would have been for the decision to have been put into writing in all cases. I recognise that there are a number of bail applications every day and to have it in every single case, while it would be valuable in collating data, might be too much in terms of the expectations on a judge to do it in every case. Deputy Daly's...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Deputy Clare Daly just made the point I was going to make. This would not delay decisions being made because a decision would have to be made before somebody could request the outcome of that decision. I also do not agree that this would be an enormous cost because if it were an enormous cost to the Exchequer, believe me, this amendment would have been ruled out of order like many other...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: But it is the court's decision.

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I think we are grasping at straws to suggest that somebody might come back three years later looking for reasons.

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is a possibility, but a very remote possibility. I also think the Minister is either not reading the amendment correctly or just grasping at straws again as it will not delay decisions, as a decision must be made before a request can be submitted on the outcome of the decision. It is clear that one can only make a request upon a decision having been made, so I do not accept the Minister's...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“10. The Act of 1997 is amended by the insertion of the following after section 9B:“9C. Where a court is hearing evidence from a complainant under section 8, the complainant shall have a right to be accompanied by a person of their choosing, including a support worker.”. I believe the...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will not repeat what Deputy Daly had to say. However, I would like to make the point that all legislation is subject to a statutory review after 12 months. I know the Minister has said that she will look at this issue in the context of that review but we cannot take the Minister at her word because she may not be Minister for Justice and Equality in 12 months time. She may not even be...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is the point.

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: Having been a member of the justice committee the Minister of State will be aware of the volume of legislation with which it deals. He will also be aware of the volume of its work programme. As such, the possibility of this issue being examined by it in any detail in the short term is probably very limited. We need to put what is proposed into the legislation rather than put the onus on an...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 10:In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“10.The Act of 1997 is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 11:“11A. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the enactment of this Act, lay before the Oireachtas a review of bail supports available in the State, to include but not limited to bail information schemes,...