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

Jim O'Callaghan: Some 2,146 knives were seized by An Garda Síochána in 2022. I do not know what its policy is when it seizes a knife. It is to prosecute, I presume.

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 Senator for her contribution. She mentioned the No Knives, Better Lives campaign. There was a campaign that she is probably too young to remember in the 1990s called Bin the Blade. It was quite effective 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: Yes. It was just trying to get people to give up their knives. It was relatively effective. We got much publicity. I am fully aware that the criminal justice sanction is a pretty blunt tool. However, I do not think anything Senator Ruane said is incompatible with this. In respect of criminal justice legislation we introduce, perhaps we need to look in the future at trying to consider...

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 have no problem with that. At present, the legislation is very much, as I said to Deputy Pringle, a fine and maximum term of imprisonment. That would be very detailed, complicated legislation but when there are offences, it is generally a fine. As Mr. O’Neill suggested in his proposal, you categorise the fines, or a term of imprisonment. Regarding who it is addressed to, the...

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 Senator for his comments. I am not proprietorial about the Bill. I have no difficulty if the provision I would like to see included in our law is brought through a criminal justice Bill or this Bill, which has been there since 2021. Obviously, there is an advantage. Although I am a Government TD, this is not a Government Bill. However, I would have thought there is an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 14 May 2024, under the Value-Added Tax (Refund of Tax) (No. 15) Order 1981 (people with disabilities can claim a VAT refund on aids and appliances that help them carry out daily activities at home or at work), if the Government has any plans to review the process by which this tax refund is claimed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider extending the hours of operation of the International Protection Office on Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2 to process applicants for international protection given the significant increase in the number making applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24327/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 169. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 584 of 8 May 2024, the areas in which the discharge scheme has commenced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Suicide (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 197. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether he has any role to play under section 9 of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 arising from the removal of the restriction on euthanasia and assisted suicide from the 9th edition of the ethics guide that was published recently by the Medical Council. [24376/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Suicide (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 198. To ask the Minister for Health whether he has any concerns about the recent removal of the restriction on euthanasia and assisted suicide from the 9th edition of the ethics guide that was published recently by the Medical Council; and his views on whether it was made with adequate consultation within the medical profession [24377/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all the guests for coming before the committee. I might take Ms Doyle up on that proposal about more questions on the leaving certificate subject. I welcome the fact that we are introducing climate action and sustainable development as a senior cycle course. As Ms Doyle said, however, the primary purpose of any course is to educate and to inform students about an area. I suppose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It sounds like a very challenging and interesting curriculum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: These are teachers who are already in schools teaching but, because of their expertise or qualifications, have an interest and an ability to teach this into the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. It seems to me this is a course which has obviously been designed. That is a difficult thing to do. Was it similar to the way the politics and society subject was designed? Were there any learnings from that or was this something that had to be started from scratch?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Doyle. Does Ms Aoife Rush wish to take up the initiation to speak?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 274.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be granted a special school place. [24738/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 463.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking any legislative or policy measures in order to combat the recent finding in a report (details supplied) that women need to work an extra eight years to make up the pensions gender gap; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Animal Welfare (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 519.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether it is proposed to introduce legislation to deal with the theft of companion pets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24641/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 550.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether members of An Garda Síochána are designated to work full-time for RTÉ’s Crimecall TV show, and if so, how many members are so allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25116/24]