Results 101-120 of 265 for long speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Committee Report on Garda Oversight and Accountability: Motion (2 Feb 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...statutory body that is responsible for investigating allegations of Garda wrongdoing. We have the correct statutory system in place by having GSOC there to do it. I am concerned that sometimes when complaints are made to GSOC, and serious ones have been made regarding members of An Garda Síochána, it can take a very long time for those reports to be completed. I refer, in...

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...becomes irreparable. Certain businesses have been built up over years in this country and the assumption that they can be turned off and on again is incorrect. If they are turned off for too long it can sometimes have irreparable consequences. That could happen in respect of our hospitality business and, indeed, of our NPHET-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Child Protection Audit: Dr. Geoffrey Shannon (20 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...is the benefit of it? What is it used for? Is Dr. Shannon telling us that if that information was on PULSE we would have much more information in respect of the exercise of section 12 and that would be to the long-term benefit of being able to deal with it as an issue? Finally, I will echo what Dr. Shannon and others have said. He talks about the consistency with which he has seen...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...the case for the relationships the island of Britain has with other parts of Europe to the east of it. They have probably been more consequential than the relationship it has had with this island. We have had a long and difficult historic relationship. Fortunately, in recent years we have had a blossoming relationship. We have been able to get on extremely well. The blossoming of this...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: .... They are a preliminary process to identify and help the subsequent investigator in terms of looking at what should be looked at. It was very surprising that the scoping inquiry went on for as long as it did. When one looks at the report produced, it is certainly much more lengthy than any other scoping inquiry I am aware of. More importantly than that, the scoping exercise goes...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...they reach 70 years of age but we need to recognise that people still have ability and capacity beyond that age. The Minister might also take that into account in the case of judges. It is not so long ago that judges had a retirement age of 72 in the superior courts but it was reduced to 70. People are sharp when they are in their 70s, although I accept that nobody present in the House...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion (25 May 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...the British state who seek to expose collusion on the part of certain sections of the British military. In the 1980s, John Colin Wallace was an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland. He, along with Fred Holroyd, another British Army officer, exposed serious wrongdoing and illegality on behalf of the British forces in Northern Ireland. He was subsequently prosecuted and convicted of...

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...of reference that there is a reference to the fact that the tribunal cannot make any findings of fact upon any matters that could be criminal in nature. The reason tribunals of inquiry take so long is if such a tribunal establishes itself and gets into a position where it is potentially going to reach serious findings against individuals, those individuals are going to come into the...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ..., it could nearly be diagnosed as a particular condition that requires expert treatment in the future. We need to recognise that it is unacceptable not to have tried to regulate this area for so long. The problems in respect of gambling are now even more severe because of the arrival of technology. It used to be the case that people who had gambling problems would have to go to the...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O’Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...him to the Department in April 2019. We need to recognise that there has been considerable delay in getting this process up and running. When one looks at what we are trying to investigate, it is an issue of limited duration. It is an issue which relates to what happened with this Lithuanian man prior to the accident with Shane on 2 August 2011. It is an investigation into the...

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

Jim O'Callaghan: ...to do before they go in there. Ministers get an opportunity to be Ministers for a couple of years. Most of them are forgotten. It is not that they do very little but most of them do very little of long-term recognition. There is an opportunity for the Minister of State to do something that would stand to his credit and be there for many years to come. One of the reasons the...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...in the House. As they say, however, we are where we are. I welcome the fact this legislation is coming in to provide for parental leave and benefit, which are both to be welcomed and both long overdue. However, it has to be pointed out that there is a significant problem with this legislation in that it contains something much more than what the Minister of State describes as an...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ..., we as legislators are acting a bit in the dark. One thing we can all be very clear on is that people who are the victims of rape, sexual assault or sexual abuse experience a very traumatic and long-term impact. We need to recognise that part of the problem and reason there is under-reporting of these offences is probably because of the fact many of the victims know their assailants....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...in this legislation. The premise from which we need to start is that generally in law a child cannot enter a contract until he or she reaches the age of 18, which is the age at which he or she is no longer a child. In certain instances children can enter a contract such as to purchase life's necessities, buy food in shops and similar issues. In general, the principal is that children...

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

Jim O'Callaghan: ...amendment, this seeks to remove the requirement to ensure the effectiveness of the administrative support provided by the office of the commission. The final amendment, amendment No. 191, has the effect of seeking to remove from the Long Title to the Bill the reference to it setting up an office of a judicial appointments commission. Irrespective of the differences people may have about...

Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...not be a hierarchy of victims of the Troubles. Nobody should have been killed in the Troubles and it is a great failure of politics on this island that we allowed so many people to be killed for so long in such a pointless struggle. I say this while recognising the legitimacy of Ulster unionism and Irish republicanism but there was a failure in politics that resulted in so many people...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...look at history and the experience of the Spanish flu from 1918 to 1920. We would note that the Spanish flue went on for two years and there were four waves. Although the pandemic has gone on longer than any of us would have hoped, we are in a stronger position than we were in March 2020. We now have a huge amount of information about the pandemic. There will not be a pandemic that...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...appears that on the playing fields of Eton, they also do silly things. The second lesson is to beware of populists. The debate in Britain was won because of the self-interested and self-promoting advocacy of populist commentators who, not long ago, had transformed themselves into politicians. People need to realise that politicians who promote simple solutions, who condemn their...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...in the public, particularly at times like this when there are such difficult cost-of-living pressures. It is also the case, however, that two funds have been established which are looking to the long term. Those would appeal to fiscal conservatives and to IFAC and the Central Bank. It recognises that the extraordinary moneys we are getting into the Exchequer at present will not always...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...urgency behind it and also because the legislation before us is unquestionably complex. It takes time to draft that. Section 9 deals with an area that has been significantly in need of reform for a long period. If we consider the legislation that is being repealed, some of the only legislation regulating gambling in Ireland dates from 1929, the Totalisator Act, and the Betting Act...