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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Detention Centres Staff (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 235. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff employed by a campus (details supplied) by administration and care work, in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [52316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 236. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 613 of 4 December 2018, the basis of her assertion that all members of the board of Tusla had an opportunity to read the operational review of the centre before the decision was taken in 2017 to not publish the report; and if she is satisfied that all members of the board did in fact read the report...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Recreational Facilities Provision (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 237. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to introduce funding schemes in the Fingal area to address the rapid expansion of population and lack of facilities to accommodate the large scale growth of the adolescent population in recent years in view of the fact that many are turning to anti-social behaviour due to lack of facilities. [52301/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Recreational Facilities Provision (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 238. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on the growing issue of anti-social behaviour displayed in adolescents residing within newly established areas due to a lack of facilities offered to them especially in areas such as Lusk and Fingal. [52302/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I apologise for having had to leave the meeting briefly. I was dealing, coincidentally, with gardaí at the time. I record that when we are talking about future policing and the need for change, we must acknowledge the great work done by many gardaí. I record in particular my gratitude to the excellent Dave Malone in Terenure Garda station with whom I have been dealing while this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Okay. I am sorry. "Great" is probably too strong a word. What the Minister actually said was that he supported the recommendations of the commission on the new structure, which has been asserted, correctly in my opinion, to be a dilution of the external oversight we had begun to move towards implementing and a serious step backwards. In the context of all of the experts in this area,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: As a very brief follow-on, has the Minister had any discussion with the Policing Authority in this limbo? Given that it is for the chop, it must make life very difficult while it awaits the Minister's new legislation. Does the postponement of the decision to replace someone in the authority, which was supposed to be before the committee this week and which is not now being taken, have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Is the authority happy enough with its uncertain future? Is it impacting on its job now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Then, it is not happy, and understandably so.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: It is a bit unfortunate that the Minister is talking about introducing amendments wholesale on Report Stage. There was the possibility of one amendment to be flagged for Report Stage in yesterday's discussions. The committee already scheduled a meeting for Committee Stage a number of weeks ago to try to conclude this Bill but that was postponed because the Minister indicated a wish to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: It is as clear as mud because the Minister did not answer the question raised. We have been waiting for this legislation for three years. We were supposed to have dealt with it on Committee Stage about three or four weeks ago. Now the Minister is talking about Report Stage as if the wheel had been reinvented because it was flagged nowhere and is against the wishes of the committee, all...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: It is not about that and I did not invite the people who are in the Visitors Gallery. They came on their own initiative because they are so concerned about the passage of the Bill and have direct involvement in its progress and because we have been at the edge so many times before. All I was trying to do was seek clarity from the Minister on whether this amounted to another delay or whether...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: This was an amendment the Government flagged to us earlier and I am sure we all will welcome it because where there is any question about the reasons for a baby dying, either during labour or otherwise, those questions need to be answered, not just for the family but also for the health service. As the Minister said, while the section is not providing for mandatory inquests into baby deaths,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 8:In page 12, to delete lines 19 to 25 and substitute the following:“(3) At the request in writing of a family member of the woman concerned, a coroner may decide not to hold an inquest in relation to the death of a woman that is a maternal death or a late maternal death, if, having regard to the matters referred to in subsection (4), the coroner is satisfied that...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: That sums it up very well. The point is that the legislation ties their hands. We are instructing coroners to hold a mandatory inquest in cases of maternal death. The only exception that has emerged is in cases where it would not be necessary, where the reason was obvious and clear and we do not wish to traumatise the family again. That was the only exception we all wanted. As Deputy...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I had intended to comment on that point. I agree with it. I had intended to say that but I forgot. If our amendment is passed this amendment would be redundant but if our amendment is not passed I will definitely oppose the Minister's amendment, precisely because of the point Deputy Jack Chambers made. The spirit of this section was supposed to be a coroner exercising discretion to spare...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy Scanlon's is totally correct. The Minister talks about the independent legal role of the coroner and that is absolutely and totally accepted. While acknowledging that, however, we have of course already got legislation placing a mandatory requirement on them to carry out inquests in a number of cases. We are just adding maternal deaths to that category for all of the reasons Deputy...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: The Minister has overly complicated the consultation issue in a manner that is not necessary. The element that we removed, and which can easily be put back in, referred only to instances where the family would be consulted before any decision on not proceeding was taken. However, that removal has to be seen in the context of what we are including, that being, a requirement that the inquest...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: There is no point in us going around in circles. I want to put this to a vote. The purpose is mandatory inquests. If the case is that straightforward, the inquest will not be too taxing, so I would not worry that much about it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Yes.