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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Minister about retired judges. I am aware that the programme for Government has said there would be a lay majority and a lay chairman of the commission but perhaps the Minister will give his own personal and political opinion. Does he think it is a good idea that retired judges are excluded from membership of this commission? Consider the fact that we go to retired judged...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, lines 26 and 27, to delete “, and in the relevant period specified by subsection (2) for the purposes of this paragraph, was not,”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 7:In page 8, to delete line 29.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, to delete line 30. This grouping concerns the structure within the judicial appointments commission and how it proposes to operate. Under the legislation as drafted there will be a series of committees. Amendment No. 8 seeks the deletion of the definition of "Procedures Committee". Subsequent amendments, to which we will come to consider presently, seek...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 85 is tabled by Deputy Sean Sherlock.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 162 is an amendment to section 53, which refers to submissions or observations at request of the procedures committee. We are seeking the removal of the words "the Procedures Committee" and the substitution of "Commission". The commission will be doing this work as opposed to the procedures committee and that is the purpose of amendments Nos. 162 to 172, inclusive, in my name....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response, to which I listened carefully. It indicates how complicated the procedure will be. Even the Minister must accept that the length of time required to provide an explanation to justify the procedures committee indicates that it is excessively complicated. The first amendment in my name and that of Deputy Jack Chambers attempts to prevent the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am sorry to interrupt Deputy Wallace. The Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016 is being discussed in the Dáil and I have to speak on it. The Minister has back-up in the Chamber. I do not know if Deputy Clare Daly plans to speak on that Bill.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not mind what action the committee takes but I have to speak on that Bill in the Dáil.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a new Garda Commissioner will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44295/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is almost six weeks since the former Garda Commissioner retired. When will the Government appoint a new Garda Commissioner?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: As I said, it is six weeks since the former Commissioner stepped down and there have been conflicting signals coming from the various entities responsible for either nominating or appointing the next Commissioner. In the immediate aftermath of the retirement of the former Commissioner, the chairperson of the commission on the future of policing stated she believed it would be appropriate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the Minister's comment that there should not be an undue delay. I also agree with him when he says the selection process should be designed in such a way that it will result in the best possible candidate being selected. However, when we look at the legislation, it gives some cause for concern. The legislation introduced by the former Government in 2015 provides that there must,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to bring forward new measures to deter criminal assaults on young persons under the age of 18 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44322/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: Throughout this city and country, teenage boys are frequently being subjected to gratuitous criminal assaults. Sometimes those criminal assaults are by other teenage boys. These issues do not receive any recognition in newspapers or the national media, but the events have a very significant and negative impact on young teenage boys. Are there measures Deputy Charles Flanagan, as Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: The reason I tabled the question is because I was recently contacted by a mother in my constituency who told me that her 15-year old son was out one Saturday afternoon on his bicycle, he was stopped by a group of other teenage boys who took his bicycle and as if that was not enough they then proceeded to punch him. As a result he required significant dental reconstructive work but, worse, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister is correct in stating there are robust provisions but they apply in respect of an assault being committed by an adult. If I am assaulted or the Minister is assaulted there will be issues in respect to that but it appears to be different when the assault is perpetrated on young teenage boys by young teenage boys. I read a report recently in The Sunday Timeswhich said there had...

Other Questions: Departmental Bodies Establishment (19 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he expects the Legal Services Regulatory Authority to be fully operational; and when it will be regulating the legal profession. [44211/17]