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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (6 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if exemptions from exit tax are available for persons who are permanently incapacitated due to mental or physical disability. [10492/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (6 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason exit tax for wards of court, who are exempt from exit tax, is deducted at source and then refunded rather than an exemption being applied. [10493/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (6 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: 93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been provided with a copy of the findings of the external audit of the management of wards funds recently conducted by the Courts Service; and if so, if he will provide a copy of same. [10710/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (6 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: 171. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to regulate chiropractors under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 with a view to permitting the listing of chiropractors as qualified professionals under the European Union (Basic Safety Standards for Protection against Dangers arising from Medical Exposure to Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2018. [10737/18]

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: This is a significant and incredibly timely motion. I compliment Deputies Connolly and Pringle on giving up the time to have us discuss it. It is a critical moment for seaweed as a resource, with regard to its development as a potentially sustainable, ecologically sound and environmentally friendly industry. If we get it right, there will be considerable benefits. If we get it wrong,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I know they must be worn out at this stage so I will try not to repeat what others have said. From the point of view of our job here, we have an obligation to oversee issues of Garda accountability and so on. When we bring people in to ask them questions, we must rely on their answers to a certain degree. The witnesses' information has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: The service was looking at the PULSE and State Pathologist's records. Around November, Dr. Singh told us that it became apparent it could not produce a comprehensive report unless they saw the investigating files. He told us he asked in November to see the investigating files on behalf of the unit. To the best of the witnesses' knowledge, did he ask specifically for the files or in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: I suppose there were a couple of things going on. Everybody's attention was focusing on that period and the 41 cases but another narrative was running alongside that, which I found particularly frightening. This related to ongoing concerns the witnesses were attempting to flag. They said one example involved a deceased person who had been a victim of domestic violence and whose partner was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Based on the evidence and analysis of the files looked by the service so far, is it fair to ask whether the witnesses believe - and I know it is only a belief but it is based on analysis and data - that people are at risk today because of crimes being misclassified on PULSE or risk indicators being missed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Some of the concern is that the witnesses flagged this internally in the organisation. They were essentially saying that because of it there were people who were potentially in danger in 2017 and possibly 2018. It is my understanding that the people in PDIM told the witnesses not to give it to them and that they did not want to read it because it was not their job. Was it anybody's job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: The review being undertaken at the moment will look at missed flags. Will it look at complaints that may have ended up categorised as "attention and complaint", which were not appropriately categorised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: There was a point made in one of the submissions that the witnesses were under the assumption that it would go to the Garda professional standards unit for monitoring but it did not at the time. Has this work ever gone to that unit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: In terms of the PDIM group that was set up and the nine meetings that were had, who was the highest level member there? Did an assistant commissioner sit in on it? What was the highest rank at it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Assistant commissioners changed in the middle of the project. On the hit-and-runs, the point made in the presentation was absolutely incredible. PULSE does not have a hit-and-run category. Has anything been done to change that since then? Has it been corrected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: I am trying to get my head around the new working group and the new review. Deputy O'Callaghan made the point that the Garda side accepted that the witnesses' methodology was right and has come around to their way of thinking. Based on what Dr. Singh told us, the witnesses wanted to look at the investigation files in order to do a proper analysis but they are still not getting them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: The witnesses will get them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Will the witnesses be on the peer review group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: I have a number of final points. I will refer to the Policing Authority and some of the points that Deputy Brophy and others made. Ms West made a phone call on 3 April saying she was assistant head of the analysis unit and that there was something coming up that she would like to talk to somebody about. That was effectively the content of the call that was made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: We regularly contact the Policing Authority as well and I am confident the message was given to the relevant people. Did Ms West hear anything back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: The message made it was clear who Ms West was-----