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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (30 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the recommendations included in the audit of structures for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47335/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (30 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the independent research commissioned by her Department on familicide and domestic homicide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47336/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (30 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps her Department has taken in response to a report (details supplied) commissioned by expert groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47337/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas, a Chathaoirligh. I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee today. The committee has already gone into a great deal of the detail. I want to check a particular matter. I understand that we are talking about the electronic identification, ID, and the wallet. In fairness to Mr Lowry, he said that the whole idea for this to be successful is that it has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I assume Ms McCabe can deal with the timeline issue and how the various interactions will occur with the different players.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is brilliant. In a perfect world, then, everything would get sorted out between the individual member states and the Commission and the digital wallet would be ready to go. People moving to Spain, for example, or elsewhere, will be facilitated in opening bank accounts. Like any good system, it would then be assessed and reviewed six months later and any required fixes will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is that what is foreseen as happening with this project? Will it be built in that sort of way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It seems that there is a solution in play. It is hardly a big deal that there are only two trust providers. Which are they? I accept that services from across Europe can be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All of us have had questions in the last while. People are consistently on and a kid might end up using a YouTube account connected to an email address, then information about a person's bank card number is requested, which that person might not be happy to provide. People are already uploading information such as passports, driving licences and so on as a means of informing companies about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree. We are back to easy-to-use systems which deal with security and privacy. It makes sense that it is owned by the State rather than subcontracted to a third party, while accepting that third parties will have the technical capacity to be part of the build and the maintenance. That is a different kettle of fish. I add my voice to what was said earlier, that if we are looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As I said, there is the anomaly of the person living in the South who has been vaccinated in the North, having been working in the North in healthcare or whatever, and possibly a couple of others.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have heard anecdotally in the last period that has become easier for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It also made it difficult enough for some of those cohorts to get the certificate and that has been loosened up, which makes this easier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We hope to have no more unforeseen circumstances in the next while. We have had enough of them.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is all right. I may have to run at some point in which case, unfortunately for everyone, I might actually come back. When the Minister talked about the importance of bypasses, I assumed he would go straight on to deal with the Ardee bypass. I was deeply disappointed when he did not.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister has mentioned some of the planning issues. We need to look at the system and we need to look at resourcing it at every point. Some of this does not necessarily relate to the Minister's Department, but any of us who have ever gone through development plans, or even been sideways involved with them, are all aware that there is a scenario, let us say, of the Office of the Planning...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When the Minister says, "mix that up a bit", does that mean looking at alternatives outside the NBP?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Okay, but we will request an element of due diligence is done on some of the alternatives, even if that includes the low earth orbit satellite systems, the alternative satellite systems or fixed wireless, which may get people through the gap. It might stop some of the particular Topical Issue debates the Minister ends up taking on this particular subject.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would think so. It is necessary. Again, I beg forbearance for where I go on this. An Post-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are dealing with the communications section, An Post and ensuring that we can-----