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Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Last Thursday, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority gave presentations to the transport committee on congestion in Dublin. Transport Infrastructure Ireland said that the main solution to congestion in Dublin would be the widening of the N7 between Naas and Newbridge, widening the N2 and the N3 and the upgrade of the N11. Nothing has changed. We are based in...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That did not even get a mention. All TII wants to do is build motorways.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: At meetings of the Dáil reform committee and others, I often hear it said that there is weak Opposition legislation going through and that detailed pre-legislative scrutiny must be done. It is said we must be very careful not to put through legislation that is ill thought out. I do not believe there is a more ill-thought-out Bill than that before us. It would almost be entertaining if...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question on a very technical issue. Earlier, we voted not to accept an amendment to increase the membership of the commission to 17, so we are going with the original legislation, which set out a membership of 13 and how that 13 will be arrived at. We have now just passed an amendment stating the President of the Circuit Court, the President of the District Court and the Attorney...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The difficulty is that this has been the centre of the whole debate throughout the process and further amendments relating to section 12 all concern this issue as to how such numbers are appointed, but if we do not know the numbers we are debating in the unknown. We have put a fundamental uncertainty into the Bill, which means any further discussion on amendments will just be clouded by that...

Other Questions: Referendum Campaigns (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans in regard to the referendums to take place in autumn 2018. [18892/18]

Other Questions: Referendum Campaigns (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am very interested in hearing an update from the Minister on the Government's plans for referendums in October which were announced in September 2017. There were plans for a referendum on the removal of Article 40.6.1° on blasphemy. What work has been done in that regard? I presume the Department has a key role to play in preparing for that referendum. I am keen to get an update on...

Other Questions: Referendum Campaigns (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I had not realised the Minister's Department would also take the lead role on the provision relating to the role of women in the home and I would welcome any further information he can provide in that regard. The recommendations contained in the report of the Constitutional Convention provided for a variety of different options. In terms of blasphemy it was fairly split on whether there...

Other Questions: Referendum Campaigns (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I asked the Minister whether his Department is the lead Department with regard to the framing of any proposed legislation on a referendum question relating to the role of women in the home. Both of the issues I raised and the question of a plebiscite on a mayor are complex issues. I seek a change in the constitutional provision on the role of women in the home but in so doing, there is a...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is funny how things do not change here. Sometimes things go in cycles. I remember that in the early part of the last decade, in 2003 and 2004, the whole issue of fisheries management was centre-stage. I remember the then Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, had a bit of a struggle in his own party. There was a very heated contest around the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We now have a problem here. How will the Seanad possibly interpret what the House was doing in the way it voted on amendments Nos. 8 and 10? I presume the Ceann Comhairle is suggesting that the Seanad will have to make some sort of decision in regard to those two amendments. It will then have to come back to the Dáil. Given the list of amendments which the Ceann Comhairle said have...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Ceann Comhairle said there is nothing unusual about passing legislation on to the Seanad where it can be amended, which is very true. However, we are in a completely unprecedented situation here where we are about to debate the remaining amendments which have not been ruled out of order without knowing the cornerstone substance of the Bill we are debating. We do not know if it will be a...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is not a proper legislative process. As Deputy Darragh O'Brien has said, it is a not insignificant constitutional responsibility we have to get the appointment of the Judiciary right. This is not insignificant legislation. For it to be done in this unprecedented manner of uncertainty as to what we are doing, as to what the Seanad will do and as to what we will then do in reply is just...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Internet Safety (23 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ramifications of setting the digital age of consent at 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22702/18]

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am sharing with Deputy Róisín Shortall. We have a chance to think big with these Brexit debates. I want to take that opportunity. This morning, I was watching a YouTube video of an interview that the BBC did last night with Mr. Steve Bannon. It was a fascinating 25-minute video in which he set out the case for economic nationalism and trumpeted the Trump regime as having...

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am sorry. No, he does not. He is a bit like President Trump. He has hair that would qualify as a hat on occasion.

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The weird fallacy is that the Brexiteers are looking after the working class; they are the economic nationalists and they will make Britain great again by going into the form of globalised trading that has caused the problem. There is a subterfuge happening in those arguments both in Britain and America. The Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, and the Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legal Costs (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 61. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the legal fees incurred to date by the Office of the Information Commissioner in respect of the proceedings in the High Court and Court of Appeal further to the judgment of the Court of Appeal in a case (details supplied). [22924/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Expenditure (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of the Information Commissioner is subject to budgetary constraints when engaging in litigation whether as an applicant, defendant or notice party. [22927/18]