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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Minister for coming in. On the issue of Garda overtime, I welcome the fact that the Garda has had several successes this year. Can the Minister explain the communications between the Department and senior management of An Garda Síochána that allowed such a circular to be distributed to chief superintendents? There is a clear contradiction between what the Minister has...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Can the Minister explain-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How did the escalation occur internally? Was there a refusal or reluctance in the Department to authorise the overtime? Did that internal Garda memo issue to escalate matters between the Department and the Garda? How did it reach the cliff edge? Why was such a memo released? Did the Department inform the Commissioner's office? How long ago did the Minister inform them that this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (5 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason his Department has not published the review of the immigrant investor programme; if he will publish this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51494/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (5 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and position of gardaí and community gardaí stationed in the Dublin metropolitan region west in each of the years 2009 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51493/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Drug Treatment Services (5 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of efforts to introduce therapeutic communities and drug free service facilities to prisons here; if he will engage with the Irish Prisons Service (IPS) to ensure a therapeutic community (TC) is introduced in prisons following a commitment by the IPS to introduce a TC; the timeframe for same; if his attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (5 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of funding for the drug Translarna for persons who need it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: RTÉ Expenditure (5 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: 428. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the proposed cuts to the RTÉ concert orchestra and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; his plans to ensure this important public service is protected and supported and does not suffer regressive cuts; the timeframe for the review announced by RTÉ into the two orchestras; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Regulations (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: 210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the new guidelines for recycling household waste; if private waste collection firms are compelled to implement the new guidelines; the way in which the new guidelines will ensure uniformity in terms of household recycling; if there are penalties for households that breach the guidelines; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank the officials for coming in. I will follow up on some of the matters raised by Deputy O'Callaghan. I will go directly to the documents that were recently discovered by the Department. For clarity in respect of the discovery process, will the officials detail to the committee the mechanism of the discovery in the earlier part of this year. How were the documents discovered and was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: Did the Department consider carrying out a general trawl?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: Who were the people dealing with the discovery?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: And Mr. O'Callaghan was dealing with the discovery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: Mr. O'Callaghan is not sure if a general trawl was discussed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: If Mr. O'Callaghan was heading the division, would he not know that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: Did they know about the documents we have recently seen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: I do not want to talk about it. That is fine. I am discovering what happened in the past. I do not want to discuss the process to which Ms McPhillips referred. To return to the specific matter, Mr. O'Callaghan said he was not sure if there had been a general trawl.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: And Mr. O'Callaghan is not sure if there was an electronic trawl of documents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would Mr. O'Callaghan agree that a discovery process should involve going beyond the scope of the knowledge of the people in a particular unit and that they probably should have gone beyond what they thought they knew? Would he agree that the Department would have been more prudent if it had gone beyond what its officials thought that they knew for the discovery process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Jack Chambers: Does Ms McPhillips, as the head of the Department, have a view-----