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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I have outstanding questions, Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I think the ICCL and Mr. Kealey might want to respond to the particular points I raised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I apologise.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to comment on the record number of commencement notifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32908/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on how many people received the carer’s support grant in 2023; the further supports that her Department are working on in relation to carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32910/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (6 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the work to progress legislation with regard to pension auto-enrolment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32911/23]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I raise the tenant in situscheme which has already been raised this afternoon. Unfortunately, as was mentioned earlier, there is a diversity of application of the process by different local authorities across the State. It has been brought to my attention that where a property is not in compliance with building regulations, however minor, such an application is deemed to be invalid....
- Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. In 2018, the people of this country voted to overhaul how we approach the issue of termination of pregnancies. We voted to give women control of their own bodies and their own healthcare. Five years on, we are still striving to provide an adequate system of healthcare for these services countrywide. This Bill seeks to fulfil and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I tend to look at these things positively. I regard the opportunity to establish the agency as a really positive step in a process that I know the Minister is extremely serious about. Violence against women in this State is reaching an epidemic level. In this regard, I would go even further than the witness from IHREC who appeared before the justice committee. I was very pleased to hear...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: The Minister might be surprised to hear that if a person pucked a sliotar from the Cuckoo stream, which is just off the Malahide Road in my constituency, it would hit the site on which she is proposing to build a Garda station.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I was not aware the project was so advanced and I am very pleased to hear it. People refer to the community it will serve as the north fringe because it is located between Fingal and Dublin city. It is important that it should get a Garda station. In agreeing with Deputy Howlin's call for some form of framework for setting out, at the least, a strategy for the delivery of, or upgrades to,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Facial Recognition Technology (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on work to publish legislation with regard to the use of facial recognition technology by gardaí; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33474/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Facial Recognition Technology (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I am supportive of any measure that will enhance the capacity and the capability of An Garda Síochána. The reason I asked this as a separate question to the one on body-worn cameras has to do with the caution that is associated with the idea of facial recognition software and the concerns that have been expressed by NGOs and State actors that I know the Minister is only too...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: The Tánaiste is on his feet so I ask the Deputy please to take his seat.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I call Deputy Brendan Smith.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: That is enough. Deputy Brendan Smith, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: I am sorry, Deputy Smith. Deputy Ó Laoghaire should take his seat. Maybe he should be somewhere else.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: Tánaiste, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)
Alan Farrell: The Deputy is completely out of order.