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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is insufficient from the point of view of vindicating women's rights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: The option to travel is insufficient. That only some women have the option to travel introduces an extra discriminatory provision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I wish to clarify something Professor Binchy said. We must be evidence-based. Is the quote attributed to Professor Binchy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is attributed to two of his colleagues as well. It was a press statement for the group of senior lawyers, including Professor Binchy, Patrick Treacy and Shane Murphy, in the Lawyers for No group campaign in the marriage referendum. It is a direct quote which was covered in CatholicIreland.net. I point that out for the purpose of clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: On a point of accuracy, because when inaccuracies are said, they should be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: -----corrected, Senator Mullen mentioned the figure of 100,000 from Northern Ireland and said the Advertising Standards Authority had upheld it as accurate. What it actually said was that it upheld the ad on the basis that people would realise it was an estimate and not a statistically accurate fact, so it was actually making the opposite point to the Senator's.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is the opposite point to the one Senator Mullen made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Travel Information and Authorisation System: Motions (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: We are discussing it briefly in the Chamber on Thursday, but I would be concerned about the proposal. The briefing note says there is really no need for us to opt in and that we have nothing to lose by not opting in, with which I agree. There has been no full comprehensive impact assessment of ETIAS and this is just another rush job. There are potential implications regarding the right to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I will try to be brief and I hope the replies will be brief. My first question relates to Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report, the second the fixed charge notices and third, the maths test. I note that the acting Commissioner has said that he has begun to adapt the recommendations of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon. How many have been implemented to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I apologise for interrupting. I know a number of the recommendations are for the medium term but my question was on recommendations that could have been implemented by now. I assume from the assistant commissioner's answer that none of these has been implemented. I will assist him on the issue. Has the recommendation to issue a laminated card to all gardaí been implemented? Has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: We are under time pressure. The assistant Commissioner's answer appears to be that none of the recommendations has been implemented yet, although the report was finalised in January and published in May. While I appreciate the Garda is doing some work on the report, this gives a new definition to the acting Commissioner's words about accelerating the pace of reform, which remains slow. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: That is why Dr. Shannon made his recommendation. The point I am making is that the recommendation has not yet been implemented. If this issue is as important as the acting Commissioner says it is - I agree that it is important - the recommendation should have been implemented by now. On the fixed charge notice system, while I know the report on this matter is internal, this has been an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: The GSOC report was produced in 2008.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: Exactly, and that was nearly eight years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: Is that not the point? Two statutory bodies reported on this matter almost eight years ago. The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission stated the system did not need to be confused as there were too many types of fixed notice charges. In the intervening years, however, more charges were added to the system. In 2014, at the height of the scandals into fixed charge notices when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: Is it not a contradiction for the assistant Commissioner to say it did not matter who was watching given his earlier point that nobody was watching because the Garda did not have the people in place? When I pointed out that there was an assistant commissioner in place who had this specific brief in his portfolio, the assistant Commissioner stated the situation was a little disjointed. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is in correspondence issued to the Garda, which we got under freedom of information, in which the medical bureau clearly points out that this is the case and that the process was ongoing, against the backdrop where the Garda had knowledge of the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: Perhaps it is the fear of outside influence, but the point is that the Medical Bureau for Road Safety had that information all along. It could do the tallies on the devices. There was all the searching around for information on the number of breath tests but the number was actually known if somebody had picked up the telephone and asked the bureau for the tally. There does-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I agree that it is not its remit. However, is it not the point that all of these issues come back to a cataclysmic failure of management to oversee any of these processes or systems? There appears to be a lack of awareness of why they are there. Take the example of the MAT test. The report basically states, "we did the internal investigation, we are not really sure what has gone on here...