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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review an application by a person (details supplied) for the State pension (non-contributory). [49583/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 688. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue for a person (details supplied). [49851/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: The purpose of today's meeting is to have a discussion with Ms Vra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency. We are joined by a member of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Deputy Ó Murchú, who is very welcome. All participants are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I thank Ms Jourová. The positivity is welcome, as is the criticism with regard to where Ireland is falling down. I have one question before I hand over the Senator Ruane. The Senator has an engagement and I want to bring her in first. Ms Jourová referred to the voting rights of mobile citizens. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: That is interesting from an Irish perspective also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: The Senator can send it through the office and we will forward it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: Deputy Costello may also be under pressure so I invite him to come in at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I was reading, on page 6 of the report, about the number of judges in Ireland. Ms Jourová said that more judges were needed to deal with the backlog of cases and that we had the lowest number of judges, per head of population, in the EU and that there have been some other concerns expressed because following Covid there are backlogs, especially in family law cases. Citizens' access to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: As noted in the report, the judicial planning working group is expected to publish its report this month. We look forward to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I was wondering whether Deputy Ó Murchú was going to rejoin us. Apologies have been received from Deputies Alan Farrell, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Martin Kenny, as well as from the Chairman, Deputy Lawless. Unfortunately, they cannot be here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: Does the Deputy have anything further?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: There is a right to a fair and speedy trial under our Constitution. There is also much to be said about the separation of powers. Ms Jourová's report included the appointment of judges, the composition of the judicial appointments commission and looked at other European standards related that. She defended the idea that a majority of judges be represented on the commission. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I pay tribute to the work that has gone on in the various Departments in accommodating Ukrainians. Last Friday I was at one of the centres in Tralee, which has some non-Ukrainian asylum seekers, and they are in tents. The system is under a particular strain, which I hope will be addressed soon by the Departments that have tried to prevent that from happening with the winter coming up....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: We are running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: If there are any other questions, the Deputy can submit them like Senator Ruane did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I will wrap it up. I thank everyone for attending. Dkuji. I hope we can maintain lines of communication with each other. This is a very important issue. We will wait to see some of the reports that will come out this month and the response of the State to some of the claps on the back and the criticisms that our guests have raised with us.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on student accommodation providers charging a full month’s rent to students where they have not spent a full initial month upon moving into their accommodation. [51607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements that he has had recently with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to student accommodation. [51608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of appeals to An Bord Pleanála that are currently in excess of the 18-week timeframe; the number that have exceeded this timeframe to date in 2022; and the total number of appeals to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51239/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of An Bord Pleanála decisions that have been set aside by judicial review decisions in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51240/22]