Results 8,761-8,780 of 14,127 for speaker:David Stanton
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: As the Deputy is aware, the Interdepartmental Working Group on Fuller Working Lives was chaired by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; an official from the Equality Division of my Department participated in that Group along with representatives of other relevant Departments. The Interdepartmental Working Group issued its report in August 2016 and, in that report, made a number...
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I welcome the opportunity to put aside some misconceptions about the direct provision system and to listen to the views of colleagues from across the political spectrum on the system as it operates today. The structure of the debate means I will not be able to respond at the end, unfortunately. I will try to get in contact with colleagues after the debate to respond to the issues they...
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I thought so too but that is not provided for.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: Sometimes. This is just statements.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: No.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: No.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: They are not.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: No.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: It is full.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: No.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: Not me.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I cannot.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I would love to.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I would love to respond.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: Services for all protection applicants (those in State provided accommodation or those who live in the community) are delivered under the Government policies of direct provision and dispersal. The Government commissioned retired Judge Dr. Bryan McMahon to Chair a Working Group to carry out a report into the protection process and the system of direct provision and that report was published...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 39 and 62 together. Section 36 on the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 provides that gaming and wagering contracts are void and no action shall lie for the recovery of money alleged to have been won or lost. This is a long standing provision of public policy. In the case of Sporting Index Limited v John O'Shea[2015] INEC 407, the High Court found that the Irish...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: As the Deputy will know, the Taoiseach announced State recognition of Travellers as an ethnic group in Ireland on 1 March 2017. I would like to thank Deputy Martin and all of the other Deputies who spoke on that occasion for supporting that statement. This event was historic and memorable. I was delighted to note that there was an all-party consensus on the issue and I take the opportunity...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Anti-Racism Measures (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: I am of course concerned about any level of racist incidents and particularly racist crime. There are mechanisms in place to deal with hate crime. Where a criminal offence such as assault, criminal damage or a public order offence is committed against a person based on their race, religion, colour, ethnicity or some other ground, the offence is prosecuted through the wider criminal...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2017)
David Stanton: The underspend referred to in the Question was for the whole period of the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals 2007 to 2013 (but with the eligibility period ending on 30 June 2015), not for each year. This underspend was mainly due to an insufficiency of suitable projects with the required level of matching funding. This Fund, together with the European Refugee...
- Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Instruction to Committee (4 Apr 2017)
David Stanton: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 200, Standing Order 154 is modified to provide that it be an instruction to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality that it has power to make provision in the Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016 in relation to:(a) the Criminal Justice Act 1984, Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996, Criminal Justice Act 2007 and Criminal Justice Act 2011, of a...