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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendment No. 5 is being withdrawn. As the Deputy has rightly indicated, she can of course reintroduce it on Report Stage if that is her decision.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 are grouped. We will take them together. They are both in the name of Deputy Clare Daly and they both involve the insertion of new sections. In invite the Deputy to speak to the amendments.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister of State wish to add a comment before I go back to Deputy Clare Daly?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are preparing a report on penal reform. Perhaps, as the Minister of State suggested, this could be reflected in the final draft of same. It is something to consider.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Deputy withdrawing the amendment?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Deputy has made a very clear point.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendments Nos. 9 to 11, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do any other Deputies wish to comment?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Minister of State comment on amendments Nos. 9, 10 and 11?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will hear from the Minister of State in respect of amendment No. 11.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does Deputy Daly wish to respond?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendment No.13 has already been discussed with amendments Nos. 1, 3 and 14.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendment No. 15 relates to section 7, while amendment No. 16 is to the Title of the Bill. I invite the Minister of State to address both of them together.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending. We have completed both Bills, as required.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The passage of the amendment puts the onus and responsibility on the Minister of State's shoulders to establish the change and its durability. Deputy Clare Daly looks exceedingly pleased.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Message to Dáil (5 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Justice and Equality has completed its consideration of the Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016 and has made amendments thereto, including to the Title.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the detail of the current provision of free school meals programmes nationally; the cost of providing this; the cost of extending free school meals programmes to full coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17250/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Poverty (6 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 243. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the proposal on developing family food initiatives to support children and families experiencing food poverty to have access to healthy food and to develop cooking and food growing skills; if he, working with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, will consider the development of family food initiatives and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work with his colleagues in other Departments to assess the feasibility of introducing fruit and vegetable subsidies targeted at disadvantaged communities, in which obesity levels are almost three times higher than in better off communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17252/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Clinical Programme for Heart Failure (6 Apr 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 245. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding the fulfilment of the aims of the HSE’s national clinical programme for heart failure; the way in which the aims and objectives of this are being followed through on; the gaps that exist in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17253/17]