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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 86:In page 21, line 38, to delete “Board, shall” and substitute “Board shall,”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 88:In page 21, line 39, to delete “parolee” and substitute “person who is on parole”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 90:In page 22, line 9, after "prison" to insert "or institution". Having spoken to officials in the Department, I am conscious the institution I wanted to include may need better definition. I was thinking of including the Central Mental Hospital. There are only very exceptional circumstances when a parole order would apply in respect of a person in the Central Mental...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 91:In page 22, line 10, to delete "(if applicable)".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 92:In page 23, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:"(9) The Courts Service shall provide the Board with any Court documents requested by the Board and which evidence or record any recommendations of the Court that imposed sentence on the person seeking parole.". This is to facilitate the parole board gaining access to court documents, in particular transcripts...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 93:In page 23, after line 18, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 23 of Criminal Justice Act 195129.The Criminal Justice Act 1951 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 23A:"23B. The Parole Board may commute any sentence of imprisonment imposed by a Court exercising criminal jurisdiction for the purpose of making a parole order in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 94:In page 23, after line 18, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 2 of Criminal Justice Act 196030.Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1960 is amended by—(a) the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a) of subsection (1): "(a) for the purpose of assisting the Garda Síochána in the prevention, detection or investigation of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: And the other Deputies.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Controls (30 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to reduce the queues for passport control by passengers arriving into Dublin Airport at Terminal 1, particularly in the late evenings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25498/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Stadium Projects (30 May 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to enable an organisation (details supplied) to redevelop a stand; and if he will give consideration for it to be part of the review of the public capital expenditure programme for 2017. [25480/17]

Report on Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Motion (1 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Unlike the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, and Deputy Ó Caoláin, I have not been a Member of the House for 20 years; I have only been a Member for 15 months. I agree with them when they said the events of 1 March last were memorable and historic. In my 15 months here, which is a small amount of time, it was the most memorable event I have experienced as a Member of the House....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (1 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to deal with the numerous gaps, flaws and variations found in the data saved on the Garda PULSE system identified in the recent audit report by the special rapporteur on child protection in respect of removal of vulnerable children under section 12 of the Child Care Act. [26441/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (1 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to deal with the finding of the recent audit report by the special rapporteur on child protection that there is little or no evidence of child protection training for the majority of gardaí. [26442/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (1 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to deal with the finding of the recent audit report by the special rapporteur on child protection that there is an explicit and deeply held culture of placing more emphasis on-the-job learning than on core training in An Garda Síochána. [26443/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (1 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to deal with the finding of the recent audit report by the special rapporteur on child protection which suggested an inadequate response on the part of Garda management in the area of changes in ethnic and cultural diversity and that there is a lack of training to help gardaí deal with those...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (1 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes recorded on PULSE in 2016 in which the initial classification of the crime was subsequently changed to another type of crime, for example, a burglary being reclassified as criminal damage. [26451/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Carroll for his presentation. The EU seems to be doing its best to make the regulation of data protection as impenetrable as possible, as we see from the regulations and directives. To make a general point, we have laws in this country dealing with data protection and when this Bill is enacted, the laws will be extended. Will it be the case that there will be a group of people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the age of consent for children, does it mean that data processors cannot use information accessed by them in the case of children under the age of consent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is a policy decision for the Government what the age should be. Let us assume a child is aged 12 years as he or she will be covered, no matter which age threshold is applied. Can the child's parents make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner if it appears to be the case that the child has been offered something on social media for which consent has not been provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the reasons I have asked about this is that Mr. Carroll correctly mentioned that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner which will become known as the Data Protection Commission will expand considerably on the basis of the Bill. Currently, it has a staff of 100. Does Mr. Carroll agree that the new commission will become a large statutory body which will need to be...