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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Civil Aviation Regulation (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 22 November 2017, if this makes it easier for a company (details supplied) to carry troops, weapons and ammunition by allowing him to give blanket approval, instead of having to approve each individual flight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52289/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Information and Communications Technology (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department regularly carries out information technology security audits; and if so, the regularity with which they are undertaken. [52108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Information and Communications Technology (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the security of communications between her Department's central servers and local offices is regularly audited; and if so, the frequency with which such audits are carried out. [52109/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Communications (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 29 November 2017, the transmission and security protocols used to transmit data across her Department’s network. [52110/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I thank the Chairman and the experts who came before the committee. It is important to say that experts in the fields of medicine, legal studies and so on volunteered their time. Many travelled long distances and their testimony was invaluable and overwhelming. I will not repeat it but will make a few points on where we go from here and what I think our job was. We were here not just to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: It is a case of how we take it forward. Many inaccurate points were made during the course of the discussions as well. Some of them have been made repeatedly and of late. We should remind ourselves that in 1983 when the amendment was brought in, abortion was already illegal in Ireland and it was put forward as a mechanism which would stop Irish abortions but all it meant was that Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: The Deputy is talking down the clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I thank Ms McPhillips for coming in. My head is probably mush at this stage, so if I repeat things, it is just that I do not get it and am not clear on something. Ms McPhillips has been at pains to point out that the Department of Justice and Equality is a huge organisation. It obviously is but we are not talking about people in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: In that sense, a trawl or unearthing documentation is not a matter of unearthing it from thousands of people. It would have been reasonable, in the context of the terms of reference, for the senior officials involved in policing, advising the Minister and so on, to have their emails trawled to comply with the discovery order of Mr. Justice Charleton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I am trying to get my head around that. Is that a list of requested documents or is it a list of items that may be relevant? Is it a definitive list or what is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: So it is the fault of Mr. Justice Charleton for not outlining clearly enough what he wanted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I am not being pedantic. Earlier, there seemed to be a suggestion that Ms McPhillips thought some of what turned up later was not actually relevant to the terms of reference. It seemed to indicate that the Department had a certain scope in deciding what may or may not be relevant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: The witnesses seemed to say earlier that they did not think the terms of reference were relevant to some of these items when their Minister in the Oireachtas had set up a tribunal to investigate a number of issues. The document is clearly relevant under the terms of reference in a number of cases. Part C of the terms of reference includes the knowledge of the present and former Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I find the judgment of the senior Department of Justice and Equality officials who were recipients of that email and had clear knowledge of the terms of reference of the tribunal shocking. It was in their own email accounts and they did not think that it was relevant to hand this over. If anything, Ms McPhillips's defence is poor judgment more than anything else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I do not. If the Department of Justice and Equality had just lost a former Minister and Garda Commissioner over the treatment of a whistleblower, a commission of investigation was under way into the allegations of that whistleblower and it came to light that the Garda Commissioner was involved in a strategy to undermine that whistleblower, someone at the top of the Department of Justice and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: What email client is used by senior officials in the Department of Justice and Equality? Is it Lotus Notes 8.5, Microsoft Exchange Server, or what is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: On Ms McPhillips's points that the Minister could not get involved or give advice, when the email emerged, nobody asked the Minister to interfere in the strategy or anything like that. We are trying to get our heads around the astonishing lack of curiosity about the strategy in this correspondence. We have to take it against the background of what happened with the whistleblower issue and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: So when it became known that a colleague in the Attorney General's office was aware of this, would Ms McPhillips not have asked what was going on? Her job is to advise the Minister. Should she not have asked if it meant that the position which had been stated publicly and repeatedly about the full support of the Garda Commissioner for Maurice McCabe had changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: With respect, I do not agree with Ms McPhillips. It is about performance of Department of Justice and Equality officials and where their powers were. Ms McPhillips has put up the argument that she advised the Minister on the basis that she could not be involved or be seen to influence the ongoing commission. That was in May 2015. There was no question of the Minister improperly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: It is not alleged at all. The transcripts were published in May 2016 and it is clear in black and white that the Department of Justice and Equality had emails and conversations at that stage affirming that it was aware of that strategy. The impression given in the speeches delivered by the former Minister more or less implied that the legal strategy was a surprise to her and she had no...