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Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that will be given to reduce the waiting times for outpatient consultations at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital [40991/17]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: The situation in Sligo may be significant, but there is also a very serious issue in respect of the outpatient waiting list at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in my constituency. At the end of August, a total of 2,486 patients were waiting for outpatient appointments at the hospital. As Deputy MacSharry noted, the Taoiseach - who formerly served as Minister for Health - gave an...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yesterday, Deputy Micheál Martin and I met representatives of the national Council for the Blind in Ireland to discuss its pre-budget submission. We also had a broader chat with them about the number of people, not just at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital but throughout the hospital system, who are on ophthalmology waiting lists. They brought to my attention that up to 75% of...

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I wish to share five of my ten minutes with Deputy Anne Rabbitte.

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the people who are in the Public Gallery this evening. I recognise many of them from the sittings of the committee and the hearings that took place some months ago. I welcome the publication of the report. Deputy Jack Chambers and I were the Fianna Fáil representatives on the committee and we support the report fully and would like to see it implemented. When the history...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (3 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report into the legislation regulating access by GSOC to journalists' phones, which was delivered by a person (details supplied) to the Government on 27 April 2017, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41685/17]

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for attending. I think we should consider it and refer it, as we are required to do. I agree with the Minister that we should opt in. The only question I have for him is whether the UK is opting in as well or whether the Brexit discussions have had any impact on regulations and directives such as 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)

Jim O'Callaghan: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an gCoimisinéir gníomhach as an bpost an-dúshlánach nua atá aige. Níl obair éasca le déanamh aige. Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé an-rathúil sa phost sa bhliain atá le teacht. I welcome the acting Commissioner and congratulate him on his new position, which...

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. O'Sullivan looked at an eight-year period from around 2009 to 2017. There were approximately 520,000 checkpoint incidents during that period. Is that correct?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: For the purpose of the report, he looked at a sample of approximately 2,000.

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

Jim O'Callaghan: After each checkpoint incident, is a member of An Garda Síochána not required to contact the Garda information services centre, GISC, and provide it with information about the checkpoint?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Are all of those recordings still available?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: It is completely unrealistic to expect gardaí or anyone to go back and listen to all of them. Part of Mr. O'Sullivan's explanation for why the figures are inflated is that, after a checkpoint incident, a garda phones up the Garda information centre and is asked how many cars they stopped in an evening. They may reply that it was 20, 30 or 40. Was there such a level of unscientific...

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

Jim O'Callaghan: It easy for us now to go back and be critical but were the gardaí who did these checkpoints apprised of the importance of accurately calculating the number of cars that were stopped, irrespective of whether there was a positive breath test?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: In fairness, when gardaí stop cars to check tax and insurance, do they count the numbers of cars that are validly taxed and insured?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: How is the current situation changed? When An Garda Síochána states in some future report that in 2018, it stopped 1 million drivers for breathalyser tests, how can the public be satisfied that the information would be accurate?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I shall now turn to holding gardaí accountable for this. What has An Garda Síochána proposed? Is it feasible to go back and start examining some 502,000 checkpoint incidents that took place over a period of eight years to see who did perform their functions accurately and who did not? Is that feasible?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I ask the assistant commissioner, Mr. O'Driscoll, about the report he delivered on the reopening of Garda stations. He delivered that report to the Minister for Justice and Equality on 9 June. In the days and weeks prior to that did he or anyone else in senior management in An Garda Síochána get a request from anyone in government to deliver an interim report?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Did the former Commissioner in the days prior to the delivery of the report ask Mr. O'Driscoll to deliver the report to the Minister?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Was that shortly prior to 9 June?