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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (6 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to produce legislation to make the distribution of revenge porn an offence; and his views on the Law Reform Commission paper on harmful communications and digital safety (details supplied). [5563/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (6 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to an international letter of request received by his Department and acknowledged in August 2017 regarding providing items in an archive (details supplied) to the police ombudsman in Northern Ireland; the actions his Department has taken since then; and the steps he is taking to ensure that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (6 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the section of each report relative to each case will be released to the families and complainants concerned regarding the decisions relative to each of the 315 cases under the independent review mechanism which were returned stating no further action was required; if the reasons and rationale by which this recommendation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (6 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 412. To ask the Minister for Health the cost per year of caring for a person with acute locked-in syndrome in an institutional setting. [5863/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (6 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities including space availability in the HSE south area which could provide acute care for a person with locked-in syndrome. [5864/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for direct referral for oncology patients to the oncology ward to be implemented in Cork University Hospital [5865/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Refugee Resettlement Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 266. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of unaccompanied minors that have been resettled here from Calais following the cross party Dáil Éireann Motion of 10 November 2016. [6210/18]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I outlined previously that there are three different approaches in the amendments to how we might ensure that the lay representation is perhaps different from the some of the standard State boards and is representative of key organisations that would have an interest in judicial diversity and representativeness. My first preference is for the approach in amendment No. 50. I will come back...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On the issue of diversity, there is no suggestion that there would be legal or political interference in lay appointments, which appears to be the Minister's interpretation. It is more a sense that there is a degree of inertia among the types of persons who are sometimes appointed to State boards. While they are often competent and capable individuals, as many Deputies from all political...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: While I do not wish to unduly delay proceedings, the Minister has not given a substantive reason for rejecting amendment No. 50. The point about whether it would be invidious to select certain organisations is not a criticism that applies to amendment No. 50. My amendment retains all the criteria by which people would have to reach certain standards, creates greater flexibility and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have not made any such accusation. With respect, most of the Minister's contribution related to amendment No. 49. He did not give substantive reasons for not accepting amendment No. 50. I corrected the only issue he raised in respect of the amendment.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I addressed that matter when I pointed out that the role of the PAS would be preserved under amendment No. 50. Subsection (10) of the new section addresses the issue because the criteria in the original text are preserved in the new subsection (8). The same criteria would apply.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 50:In page 15, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:“Recommendation of lay person for appointment as member and chairperson 15. (1) The Public Appointments Service shall organise the following selection processes—(a) as soon as may be after the commencement of this section, a selection process referred to in each of subsections (2) and (3) for the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am sorry, but just so that I understand, does the previous change not affect amendment No. 65? Lines 10 and 11 have been deleted. Is line 11 not something else now?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to put it on record that there were also votes on, specifically, the procedures committee. The select committee agreed that the procedures committee was the one committee that was worth preserving and, therefore, I shall vote to maintain section 19. It will require an amendment to reflect the other changes that I have made but I intend to vote to retain the section.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 98:In page 22, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(4) The annual report will contain a diversity statement on the success of the Judicial Appointments Commission in furthering the objectives outlined in section 7(2).". This brief amendment is germane to the intention of the Bill. It requires that the annual report, which the judicial appointments...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not agree but I do not think there is any need to rehearse this at any greater length.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 115:In page 26, to delete lines 15 to 26 and substitute the following:“(3) Subsection (1) shall only apply to a legal academic who has qualified as a barrister or solicitor and subsequent subsections of this section, in so far as they relate to a person who is referred to in them as a ‘head of a faculty’ or ‘head of another faculty’,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take on board the Minister's point and will not press the amendment, with a view to reconsidering and perhaps redrafting it before Report Stage. The provisions need to be loosened somewhat as the section is too restrictive. I take the point about the necessity to have some practical experience, but the bar is being set too high. Provisions such as those which have been suggested by...