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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Right. Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In a query for Ms Doyle, I suppose, ultimately, when we examine the detail of climate change and the climate crisis, we can see that, at its heart, scientific, observable changes are happening. How prominent should the academic and scientific study of it be in the course? With the greatest respect, it cannot just be about activism. If we have a leaving certificate course that is just about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: My next question is for Ms Murphy. It is on the third level sector, in respect of which she has expertise. I am surprised there are not specific subjects that correspond with the proposed climate action and sustainable development course. Does Ms Murphy think it is too disparate at third level? Do we need more individual courses that focus on this issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a report on the task force for Dublin city centre that he announced on 9 May 2024. [22005/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the establishment of the task force and commend Mr. David McRedmond for taking on this important role. However, I think he is going to have a very challenging task in terms of trying to change the status and make-up, and deal with the concerns that we all see when we travel through the city centre at present. I have no doubt Mr. McRedmond and the other people on his committee will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman, his staff and the members of the committee for permitting me to come before them this afternoon to try to obtain pre-Committee Stage scrutiny of the Bill. Before I talk about the content of the Bill, I will give the committee some history as to how the Bill has already progressed through the Houses of the Oireachtas. I introduced the Firearms and Offensive Weapons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Daly for giving consideration to the Bill. The first question concerned how effective changing penalties or extending or increasing penalties will be. It is difficult to give an assessment as to how effective any criminal sanction is. Many criminal offences are increasing notwithstanding the fact that they have very significant penalties to them. There is another part to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: There is something happening. Deputy Daly is right that the number of knives being carried is increasing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Just to conclude on that, I do not think they are incompatible. Obviously, we should be spending money on youth work and community projects and trying to ensure that younger men and boys have other outlets to avoid them getting involved in fights and knife crime but we cannot just sidestep the criminal justice side of it. That is my submission to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: A person found guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary of conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months. It is optional for the court as to whether or not it imposes a criminal sanction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not have those statistics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: That is a maximum sentence. It is unusual for courts to impose maximum sentences.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is open to it to do that. However, it is difficult to assess the gravity of the crime when we are talking in the abstract but, generally, people will not be prosecuted for this. A lot of times this could be combined with a manslaughter charge. Maybe a person is not convicted of manslaughter and are acquitted. The remaining charge against them is a charge under section 9 of the Act. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: If we look at the legislation that goes through the Oireachtas, vast amounts of very detailed legislation goes through. As Deputy Pringle knows, when it comes to the offences, we are limited to fines or maximum terms of imprisonment. We do not have any other penalties set out in our legislation for breaches of the criminal law. It would be an interesting process to see what other types of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: They were convicted. I do not know the circumstances. Many were convicted summarily. If a person is caught in possession of a knife and it is a first offence, I think the court is going to look sympathetically on that. However, the purpose here, and I am sorry to be repetitive, is, as the Taoiseach indicated, to send a stronger message in respect of the possession of knives with the...