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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1038. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on purchasing new weaponry for armed Garda personnel in the years of 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1039. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time forensic accountants working in the Criminal Assets Bureau and Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau in the years of 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1040. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with public order offences within Garda B and C districts of DMR on both 17 and 18 March 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardai by rank attached to each divisional crime scenes unit as of 12 April 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many decisions to grant citizenship were made in 2017 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16369/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1077. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any plans to put the Irish Prison Service on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16720/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána by rank who have sought an extension of their mandatory retirement age under Regulation 6 of SI 335/1951 (as amended) for 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16813/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking doing to support the Irish sheep sector. [18161/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) is to be used for emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17236/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1385. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider paying trainee psychologists whilst they are on placement in order to ensure that the number of psychologists increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16496/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (18 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1440. To ask the Minister for Health the location of all automated external defibrillators local to Terenure, Dublin 6; if a national database of defibrillator locations can be provided for communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16722/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Did Mr. Watt in any way seek to delay its publication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: When you look at the report it is clear that in February and March 2022 Mr. Watt commenced detailed negotiations with Dr. Holohan about his secondment. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Then it was agreed that Dr. Holohan would go off and speak to the third-level institutions on his own. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Looking back on it, does Mr. Watt accept that it was not appropriate for the person who was seeking the secondment to be involved in the negotiation about the terms of the secondment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is Mr. Watt aware that in Maura Quinn's report, at page 31, she has effectively criticised that? She has said that no one individual should be personally and exclusively involved in any negotiation with third parties which involves the disbursement of State funds in which they have a potential personal interest. Does Mr. Watt disagree with Ms Quinn?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is it not the case that there will be a conflict of interest, however, if a senior civil servant is in negotiations with an intended seconder about the terms of his or her employment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would they agree the terms? Would they negotiate the terms on behalf of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 27/2021 states that secondments can only be for a maximum of five years, and this one clearly was not to be for that length of time. Was that not taken into account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: What were the other examples of that type of secondment that were more than five years? Can Mr. Watt give us an example?