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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Colm Brophy: If I lived in Paris, London or any of the other European cities which have been the victim of terrorist attacks in recent years or if I were the parent or family member of a person killed on a bridge or mown down by a terrorist, I would be at my wits' end listening to some of the spurious arguments being wheeled out here this morning. I ask the Minister to confirm my understanding of what he...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (2 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: 77. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for further centenary commemorations over the coming years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39728/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: 103. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the schemes available to support historic buildings that require repair; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39727/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: One of the education measures in the programme for Government and the Action Plan for Education was the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill. I ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the measures in the Bill will be commenced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their very interesting contributions. I will follow up on some of the comments made by Senator Richmond. Subsidiarity is at the heart of it. The problem the European Union faces is that in its original form, namely, the European Coal and Steel Community, one had effectively a group of nations with a very similar background and socioeconomic situation that wanted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: Dr. Schön-Quinlivan will have to give them something for honesty on that. They did not even gloss over it. They just said, "No way, lads".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: What is very important about Macron's option, which Dr. Schön-Quinlivan has encapsulated in the way she has answered, is that there is a perception among members states, including Ireland and the various smaller member states, that his vision for Europe is really a Franco-German vision. Fundamentally, that is one of the biggest worries for Europe. As someone who is pro-European and who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is a horrible alternative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: He apologises, by the way. There is an event in the Seanad that he had to attend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I was really referring to the democratic institutions within certain member states and their ability to observe EU norms, particularly, say, Poland or Hungary. We had a headlong rush to bring in member states, to lock them into a European way of thinking and get them operating through institutions. Unfortunately, because that integration process was not really developed, when governments in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: To clarify, I did not say or advocate that the European Union enlarged too soon. I said I supported the view that the European Union should have enlarged quickly, but the issue is what happened next. The foot was taken off the accelerator in embedding the process after the countries in question were brought into the European Union. Much of the work that was done in bringing them in was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the delegates for attending. I do not have that many questions in that I agree strongly with the gist of the presentations. Certainly, I support the emphasis on community policing and hope the new Garda authorities will advocate it as being at the heart of policing. My experience as a public representative, a councillor for ten years and then as a Deputy is that the community garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Union Regulations: Motion (10 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Minister of State might like to take a breath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I congratulate the Garda Commissioner on his appointment. We look forward to engaging with him and his colleagues in the coming months and, I hope, years. Does the Garda Commissioner believe there should be complete and full implementation by his management team of the recommendations made in the report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland? Are there aspects of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: Are there any other areas where the Commissioner would have that type of nuance or variation in interpretation compared to the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I refer to the community policing aspect. Within the roadmap of the report there is a very strong emphasis on community policing. I am interested in getting some concrete examples from the Commissioner. My personal experience with this is that community policing delivered by An Garda Síochána works very well occasionally. It works very well because somebody comes in, he or she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have another question linking to that if the Chair will indulge me. In the police service in which the Commissioner formerly served there was an extensive programme of the closing of police stations. There is obviously a very contentious issue around the closing or potential reopening of Garda stations. In the context of refocusing on communities, both in urban and rural areas and in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Commissioner for his answer and I acknowledge his remarks on investment going into the Garda. It is welcome to hear the Commissioner say that. In the IT area we have heard so much here over so many years and I particularly hope that the Garda will utilise the investment in IT to deliver some of the solutions that we need.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (6 Nov 2018)

Colm Brophy: 1222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to a campaign to have the 1926 census records released earlier than planned to facilitate ancestry researchers; if this has been considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44930/18]