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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Inquiries (28 Jun 2022)

Pa Daly: 127. To ask the Taoiseach the breakdown of the number of actions defended by the Chief State Solicitor or Attorney General in which the Minister for Education is a named party for 2019, 2020, 2021 and year to date in 2022, in tabular form. [34496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Jun 2022)

Pa Daly: 864. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment for a procedure. [34208/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Pa Daly: I raise the case of a seven-year-old girl from Tralee who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer last July, seven days after her seventh birthday. She has been to Crumlin until Easter of this year and now is in shared maintenance care between Mercy University Hospital in Cork and University Hospital Kerry. She gets bloods in Kerry. She has to have her Hickman port dressed quickly and her...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: 1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the planned reforms to GSOC, including whether she envisages an increase in funding for any new body to replace it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35896/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: I ask for the Minister's views on the planned reforms to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. She will have seen the 2021 report it released, which mentions the sustained increase in caseload and its preparations for the expanded mandate. Does she envisage any increase in funding for any new body to replace GSOC? Will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister for her response. The reforms to GSOC contained in the policing, security and community safety Bill were dealt with extensively during pre-legislative scrutiny. The proposed reforms were criticised by many stakeholders in the committee. Some criticised the reforms for giving GSOC too many powers, and others criticised them for not giving it enough powers. I ask the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: We can see the importance of dealing with workforce planning in other Departments, such as the Department of Health. The Minister has hit the nail on the head in the question of where GSOC is going to find all the investigators it needs. Are plans in place to source them from other Commonwealth countries around the world that have similar investigative procedures? We do not want to go back...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: Will the Minister provide me with a date on which members of An Garda Síochána will no longer be investigating other members of the organisation?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legal Aid (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will detail the supports her Department gives to Free Legal Advice Centres; if her Department has received its 2021 annual report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35898/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legal Aid (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: Will the Minister detail the supports her Department gives to Free Legal Advice Centres? Will she confirm if her Department has received the 2021 annual report, and will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legal Aid (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: I am sure the Minister is aware that an awful lot of the FLAC centres around the country have more or less exclusively been dealing with family law cases. I note the figure of 13,000 calls that the Minister mentioned, which is a small but significant increase. I do not know whether the Minister noticed the following matter but I certainly did and I am sure the Acting Chairman did. There...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legal Aid (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: On the point of expanding the services, does the Minister have a specified plan for separate family law courtrooms and courts around the country in the larger towns? If so, which towns is she talking about? I know that FLAC and the other organisations wrote to the Minister in July of last year about its demand for its services and the massive legal demand that is out there. The fact that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legal Aid (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: Will additional courtrooms be built around the country?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projects that will benefit from funding allotted under the public private partnership line item in her Department’s planned capital expenditure for 2022. [36290/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: I want to ask the Minister which projects will benefit from the funding allotted under the public private partnership, PPP, line item in the Department's planned capital expenditure for 2022.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: It is interesting that the Minister mentioned the Criminal Courts of Justice because the repayments on that have probably been going on for 15 years and it will cost the State a sum of over €600 million for a piece of ground it already owned. There was only one real winner in that, namely the original funder, Babcock & Brown, which has received huge amounts of money from it....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: Has there been engagement with the Department of heritage in relation to these new projects? As the Minister is probably aware, that Department spoke to the justice committee some time ago in relation to courthouses. The strong recommendation of one of the architects was that a grade 2 or 3 architectural review should take place before services are withdrawn from any court building. That...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (5 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: Will the Minister ask that the heritage report be given before that meeting takes place so it can be properly considered?

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: If ever there was a case which showed that the two-tier system of providing healthcare in Ireland, as well as the lack of Government dealing with an issue, it is the case of Alexis O’Mahony, who is a six-year-old girl living in Killarney. She has a pyruvate dehydrogenase, PDH, deficiency. She has a brain injury. She has cerebral palsy quadriplegia. She has visual impairment, the...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: I am conscious of the time that is left. I concur with what has been said in support of these amendments, given what the Department and advisers said in our meetings, the rushed nature of the Bill and the facts that many years passed during which it was known that something would have to be done in relation to the case before the European courts and that no real legislation has been...