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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address and respond to concerns raised in correspondence by an organisation (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 355. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10611/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 388. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 678 of 8 February 2022, the actions taken by HIQA in each such designated centre for older people and in each designated centre for people with disabilities on foot of the allegations of sexual abuse which were made; the changes that were made in each such centre to prevent further sexual abuse; the sanctions that were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Ms Michelle Gildernew MP would like to propose a vote of sympathy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Thank you. We would like to be unanimously associated with that vote of sympathy to the family at this very difficult time. We ask the clerk to write to the family on behalf of the committee to express our deepest sympathy to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Our engagement today is with the Committee on the Administration of Justice, which is represented here in the committee room by Mr. Daniel Holder, deputy director, and online by Ms Una Boyd, immigration project solicitor and co-ordinator. They are both very welcome. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Ms Boyd has the floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry to interrupt but I just want to get the agreement of members that we will give five minutes extra to everybody for this section of the meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have to move on the next group. The theme is obviously current for everybody so perhaps it will be picked up by other questioners. It is very informative. Mr. Finucane will start for Sinn Féin. The slot is for 20 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Okay. Would Ms Boyd like to comment on that? Does Mr. Finucane want to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: If gardaí are doing checks on the land border, maybe the committee should request their statistics about outcomes from such checks, how many they have done, if they record them, and what issues relating to trafficking may have arisen. Would that be a reasonable question to ask?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: The clerk can take that on board. It would be reasonable to do that. It would inform the debate. If there are reasons of which we are not aware in terms of outcomes, we would be clear on them afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will move to the Fianna Fáil slot. As far as I know, Deputy Brendan Smith is on his own at the moment. He has 20 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Before our guests answer, if any other members of the Deputy’s party present and who wish to contribute, in whatever order, there are 11 or 12 minutes left in the slot. I want to make sure everybody is aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We should invite representatives of the Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice, if that is agreed. I accept the bona fides of your beliefs. That is the information you have been given. There are still three minutes left. Does Deputy Brendan Smith wish to speak again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy Smith, are any of your colleagues present? There are a couple of minutes left in this slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Thank you, Deputy Smith. That was very useful. Ms Claire Hanna was here and, I think, had to go to another meeting. She will try to get back. I see Dr. Farry of Alliance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Sure, no problem. By their very nature, rights apply universally. A right cannot be denied. Mr. Holder is saying that a human right cannot be politically obstructed and a government cannot be allowed do that either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I see Ms Hanna is back. I will make one point, which is only by way of information. When we met ex-prisoners, we got one case relating to a transport company that is a semi-State body. We wrote to the company and the answer we got, in fairness to it, was that it was engaging directly with the people concerned. That is the only complaint we received that I am aware of and it was being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Anybody in uniform who behaves in a racist manner is not fit to be a member of the organisation. If the police do not absolutely actively discourage that, it is not an efficient, appropriate and modern police force.