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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: The entire process seems to be deliberately confusing which is not a good development, but the impression is being given that nine months is the maximum amount of time anyone will have to wait before being able to access the labour market because the first instance decision will be made within that period and if he or she is allowed to stay, he or she will be able to work or, if not, he or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: That was precisely my point. I believe they should be and would like the issue to be examined. The Minister has drawn up a list and said if someone is a forensic scientist, a nurse, a vet, a doctor and so on, he or she can apply for a job, but if he or she is a chef, an ordinary Joe or whatever else, he or she will not be able to apply for a job. That is an exclusion list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: That is the problem. We do not have the list and have not seen it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I used chefs as an example. If there is a shortage of chefs, presumably the Government will include them in the list, but my point is that that is what we are doing. We are allowing people to work in areas in which there is a shortage of people with a particular skill set, but many people will be excluded from applying for more ordinary jobs where a particular skill set is not required....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I wish to touch on the same point and I spoke about this at the last hearing dealing with this legislation. It is hard to remember back to where we were at. Fianna Fáil's bigger group of amendments, or the next group, deal with getting rid of the relevant committees. We examined that and I have some sympathy for that but my understanding is that this group of amendments relates to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: These are incredibly difficult and confusing. There are aspects of amendments that could be supported but they have a knock-on effect for other parts of the legislation, which makes it very difficult for us in handling them. As I said in a previous discussion, this is an area we actively examined in preparation of our amendments. It is the idea of getting rid of all the relevant...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I honestly see this as a practical issue. We are all very clear that the view of this committee is that the relevant committees will not work and Report Stage will not change this, but that we are very open to looking at how, in a different format, the presidents of the two courts can be given a role on the commission. I agree we should make the decision today in order to advance the issue....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: It is very reasonable and I will support it too.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I will discuss my amendments Nos. 17 and 19 first and then deal with amendment No. 21 separately. These amendments are seeking to do the same thing in some ways. Ours might be a little less complicated than Sinn Féin's in that it allows for recommendations for the appointment to be based on merit while having regard to objectives of gender equality and diversity. They might be less...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy Wallace actually thought amendment No. 124 was his amendment. However, Deputy Wallace's amendment, which appears just after Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 124, actually does not have a number. It relates to the next section but Deputy Wallace thought amendment No. 124 was his.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: It is a different section.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Is that not an amendment though?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I echo some of the points made by Deputy Ó Laoghaire. His amendment is stronger than mine in some ways but both seek to achieve the same thing. In respect of amendment No. 19 and the debate regarding the term "feasible and practicable", the issue here that, under paragraphs (a) and (b), there is an objective to have equal numbers of men and women and to reflect diversity. However, it...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: For those of us who were members of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, we are at a peculiar juncture now where we have been through months of discussion on this issue, yet, for many of the general public, this is the start of the run into the referendum campaign, an issue for which some people have waited a lifetime. I have heard people speak about being...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tribunals of Inquiry Data (18 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of the financing sanctioned by his Department for the staffing of An Garda Síochána's liaison unit for the Charleton Tribunal. [2120/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tribunals of Inquiry (18 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if ministerial sign off by his Department was sought and received for the financing required to rehire retired members of An Garda Síochána to staff the liaison unit for the Charleton Tribunal. [2119/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (18 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is standard practice to notify applicants for naturalisation that they will be issued with a certificate of naturalisation and for an invitation to a citizenship ceremony to issue only for that invitation to then be withdrawn and a person left waiting for 15 months for another decision on an application to issue such as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (18 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the avenues available to an Afghan refugee in Greece who cannot return to Afghanistan for fear of being murdered to seek asylum here. [2580/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (18 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the decision to discontinue supplying of Versatis medicated plasters with lidocaine to medical card holders; the alternative that will be made available to persons that rely on these items; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2577/18]