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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Assisted Decision Making (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The 2019 Budget provides for an allocation of €3 million in the Justice and Equality Vote for the establishment of the Decision Support Service. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provides a modern statutory framework to support decision-making by adults with capacity difficulties. The Act provides for the setting up of the Decision Support Service within the Mental...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Data (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department that the information requested is held by An Garda Síochána and the reply is being compiled by them. I will write to the Deputy as soon as the information is available.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The allegations alluded to by the Deputy are concerning. As the Deputy is aware, allegations of wrongdoing are for the appropriate authorities to investigate. Those authorities are An Garda Síochána and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. I have no role in such investigations as they are operational matters for the authorities concerned. If the Deputy has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Staff (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that as of 1 October 2018, there were 849 staff employed within INIS, equating to 812.67 full-time equivalents. This is a significant increase on the staffing levels as of 1 October 2017, at which point there were 782 INIS staff, equating to 747.86 full-time equivalents. These staffing increases are being...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of resources, including personnel, among the various Garda Divisions and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the optimum use is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of resources, including personnel, among the various Garda Divisions and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the optimum use is...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I can do so now.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I thank the Acting Chairman and I thank Senator Norris for his clear recollection as to where we were some weeks ago.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The Senator is right; I was responding to Senator McDowell but I acknowledge the status of Senator Norris. He is, of course, a Senator, speaker and mover of amendments in his own right so I am not going to regard him as a proxy for Senator McDowell.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I hope he is not going to represent himself as a proxy for Senator McDowell.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I want, very briefly, to-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I will be brief because I am merely replying to a question from a Senator who is not here. Senator McDowell spoke about the purpose of section 23, which is merely a standard technical provision to provide for funding for the overall purposes of the Bill. It was inserted into the Bill by way of an amendment which I brought forward on Report Stage in the Dáil and which was agreed. There...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: It is solely for the purposes of establishing the new subhead. I am keen to say to Seanadóirí that it is unlikely that the commission will be established this year but budget 2019 has made start-up funding available for both the commission and the eagerly awaited judicial council. In anticipation of the enactment of this Bill and the Judicial Council Bill, €250,000 has been...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: At the rate we are going with the Bill, Members of the current Seanad will be retired when it is passed and will be eligible for the board.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: Yes, I can do it within the one minute remaining. The answer to the question about the payment to the civil servants------

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: Yes, the payment of the director, who will be a civil servant, will be from the commission's allocation which has yet to be determined. As for the Senator's second question, it is a technical reference to where provision is made elsewhere in the Bill to funding a particular purpose.For example, it is in subsection 11(2) and subsection 30(2) in terms of a support office. It is a provision...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: Senator McDowell posed a number of questions to which, because of their inconsistency, it would just not be possible to provide accurate responses. On the one hand, it seems the Senator is making the case that, by comparison with the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, there is in some way unnecessary expenditure. On the other hand, he seems to be arguing in favour of an increased amount...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: Salaries are estimated to be in the region of €300,000 to €350,000. I am not in a position to provide Senators with detail as to the office accommodation. If there is to be a directorate or commission with a staff of four, five or six, it is not difficult to work out the accommodation required. No decisions have been made as far as this is concerned. It is most unlikely,...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I want to-----