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

Clare Daly: I acknowledge what the Minister is trying to do. The amendment provides that the duty to hold an inquest into maternal death and a death in State custody does not have retrospective effect. This prevents the State from having to investigate the deaths of everyone who died in prison of old age, for example, but I would like to hear more about the position on maternal deaths. It is worth...

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

Clare Daly: In fairness this was flagged to us as something the Government would address on Committee Stage, unlike some of the other issues, which I will deal with shortly. This issue definitely was flagged and we fully support the Minister in his efforts on this. I echo the point made by the Minister that our support on it is dependent on some sanctions being included on Report Stage. There are no...

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

Clare Daly: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps taken by the board of a campus (details supplied) to facilitate a return visit by the authors of the operational review of the centre in order to offer feedback to staff and stakeholders. [52313/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: A huge injustice has been done to Goldson and Hardwick, who concluded the operational review into Oberstown, to the staff in that organisation and to the children being managed there by the non-publication of the report despite the promises given, and by the lack of facilitation of those individuals with regard to giving feedback to the staff. What is being done to correct the situation?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: The Minister's response has actually made the situation worse in light of the sequence of events which we know of thanks to the work of RTÉ in unearthing some of the emails. We know that the legal advice of the Attorney General did not state that the report could not be published in full. It is very clear from the email of 13 November that the Attorney General said publication of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: The reason I stated that the Minister's response made the situation worse is because it was not accurate. We have a new departure now in that, for the first time on the record of this House, the reviewers' work is being questioned. It is being hinted that they went outside the terms of reference, as if it was their fault. That is a new thing, which was not mentioned previously. We have...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: We are hanging on the Deputy's every word.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I start by reading an email from a resident who had hoped to be here last night. He wrote:Myself and my partner live 200 metres from the main (south) runway at Dublin airport. We are actually inside the perimeter of DAA lands with only one road in and out. God forbid there would ever be an accident or a plane crash. We are now at a stage where life in our home is just unbearable. A...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress being made to identify cases of illegal or incorrect adoption registrations; the steps taken to inform the person identified as being illegally or incorrectly registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52312/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) who has defaulted on payments to the Revenue Commissioners can hold a public contract with a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52579/18]

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Amendments Nos. 4 and 10 attempt to row back on the amendments that Deputy Wallace succeeded in getting passed on Committee Stage. Amendment No. 5 is really a companion amendment to the amendments we succeed in getting through on Committee Stage and will be necessary if those two amendments remain in the Bill. I believe that they should remain. The Bill has undoubtedly improved a good...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I will speak very briefly. The Minister of State has repeated the point that he is not prescribing what the individual service provider must or must not use. We fully and totally accept that. Neither are we. There is no contradiction there whatsoever. We fully accept that service providers can ask for any method of verification as they see fit. All we are saying here is that the public...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: That is not what we are calling for.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: That is nonsense.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: At the heart of the amendments is the idea that the once-only collection of data that the Government is proposing seems to be justified solely on the grounds of so-called efficiency. It is not really clear for whom it is efficient. If one boils things down to basics, the Bill has two main goals, namely, to provide a legal basis for public bodies to share data among each other and to set...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Most of the contribution of the Minister of State was a straw man in building up a case that we were not making. The rationale behind his argument appears to be that when people give their data to one public service provider, they should not be allowed to opt out of having that data shared with another public service provider. That is just nonsense. Most people will agree to the convenient...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: The proposer of the amendment has a right to reply.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I think the tone adopted by the Minister of State is unfortunate because some Members on this side of the House and in the Seanad have spent a considerable number of hours preparing and working on this issue which we take incredibly seriously. A number of the points made by the Minister of State are irrelevant, while some are very worrying. Let us take the back-to-school allowance scheme....