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Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 33: In page 18, line 14, to delete “34L(1)(a)” and substitute “34M(1)(a)”.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 34: In page 19, line 33, to delete “intermediate” and substitute “intermediary”. These amendments make changes to the definitions contained in the proposed section 45 of the Defamation Act 2009 introduced by section 19 of the Bill. Section 45 provides the Circuit Court with jurisdiction to make identification orders. This allows a person...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 35: In page 20, line 7, after “remuneration,” to insert “whether such remuneration is provided directly by a recipient of services or indirectly through advertising or other means,”.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 36: In page 20, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “ ‘recipient of the service’, in relation to an intermediary service, means any natural or legal person who uses an intermediary service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;”.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 37: In page 21, after line 19, to insert the following: “(2) The amendments effected by subsection (1)* shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.”.

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Referral to Select Committee (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration pursuant to Standing Orders 103(2)(b) and 188(1).

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: There is work going on in the Department that I have repeatedly enquired about what we can do to speed up Garda vetting. I am waiting for a report on it. In light of what the Deputy said, I will certainly raise it at the meeting I will have with the senior Department officials this Thursday. I raise it every time, but something needs to be done. We do not want this repetitive thing where...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: -----sites that we have. Thornton Hall, however, is a place where I want to see work commenced for the construction of a new prison.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: Whether it is a rule or not, I am the person who is making decisions in this area. I do not want to find myself in a situation where I am going around looking for new hotels. Obviously, it is a different situation if a hotel has been used already for accommodating Ukrainians or IPAS accommodation. There may be reasons why we would want to continue that. I have already terminated nine...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: There is a permanent director of care and rehabilitation in the IPS and there is an acting executive clinical lead. They have been in place since January 2024. Progress is being made on critical recommendations, as outlined in the health needs assessment. I was also in Clover Hill. There is unit in the Central Mental Hospital in Portrane, which is a stunning new building, that I am trying...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I understand the Deputy's request for more gardaí to come into Kerry. Everyone wants more gardaí. I thank Deputy Cahill for welcoming my visit there. It was great to see Castleisland Garda station and the excellent work being done by community gardaí. The more we recruit, the more gardaí we will have in every part of the country. The Deputy's second question related...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: Certainly, Chairman.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I cannot because it is on the basis of what is being provided in respect of the price per person per night. I agree, however, with the Chair that far too much money being spent on this area is going to private commercial providers. This is why I am trying to develop State accommodation and why I bought Citywest. We cannot have it both ways. We cannot be critical of people for trying to...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I too welcome the group from the Rathmines University of the Third Age. Coincidentally, they are from my constituency. I was here yesterday and the Terenure men’s club and the Ringsend active retirement group, also from my constituency, were in. I do not know what is going on here.

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: Every time I come in here, there seems to be a local constituency group, so I thank the Cathaoirleach for that. I stand here to ask the Seanad to approve these motions to opt in to these three proposals in the field of international and temporary protection. As the Cathaoirleach knows, Ireland is committed to supporting and advancing the development of a common European system of asylum...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: Article 4.

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I listened to the Senators very carefully and I thank them for their contributions. I will try to respond to the points they raised but if I miss a point, I apologise. Senator Gallagher asked a couple of succinct questions. He asked how many people have sought international protection in Ireland to date this year. The answer is 6,000 in the first six months of the year. It was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traffic Fines (1 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am informed by An Garda Síochána that, as of 27 June 2025, the table below provides a breakdown by Garda division of the number of Fixed Charge Notices issued for offences related to parking or stopping in a disabled parking bay. In total, 7,518 such notices were issued between 1 January 2024 and 27 June 2025. Figures are based on date from Fixed Charge Processing System...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: A new CSO survey providing national prevalence figures on sexual violence in Ireland was published in April 2023. The Sexual Violence Survey, commissioned and funded by my Department, focused on respondents’ experiences of a broad spectrum of sexual violence and harassment. The survey covers a range of behaviours from non-contact sexual violence right through to non-consensual...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: Under the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 230 of 2018), international protection applicants can apply for labour market access permission if are fully cooperating with the IP process. While an application for labour market access can be made five months after the IP application, permission will only be granted once an applicant has waited six months from...