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Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The reply I am referencing was not complicated. It was a response more than a reply.

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The events, circumstances and life changing results that have been uncovered over the past three weeks with regard to the cervical cancer screening tests scandal have shaken Ireland to the core. In November 1990, Ireland moved progressively forward by electing its first female President, Mary Robinson. In her acceptance speech, Mrs. Robinson specifically thanked the women of Ireland for...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The committee is in public session. I ask members to switch off their mobile phones, please. I have come without mine so that is a good way of dealing with it. This meeting has been convened for consideration of Committee Stage of the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017, a Private Members' Bill sponsored by Deputies Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy. I welcome Deputy...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I invite Deputy Shortall to make opening remarks on the Bill before we address the amendment and I will then ask the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, to comment if he so chooses.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry to interrupt but I note that a vote has been called in the Dáil Chamber. The Minister of State might have the opportunity to conclude his opening remarks at this point. It is an eight-minute bell. He can be the judge of that.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The route to the Chamber is a little longer than might have been the case, so I suggest that we might suspend until after this vote that has been called, or there might be a series. I am not sure of the situation. I cannot read it from here. Will Deputy Chambers help me? What amendment is that?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is likely to be one on amendment No. 15 immediately following. I suggest, on the conclusion of each of those two votes, that members please return, and we will resume discussion the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are in a position to resume. I invite the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, to resume his opening remarks.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State. We have an indication of Government acceptance of Deputy Shortall's amendment. However, I offer the opportunity if either Deputy Brophy or Deputy Chambers would like to say anything at this point. If they are happy we can proceed.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Collective agreement sounds like a good idea.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State. His intentions for report Stage are noted.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If there is agreement, and if it is an impediment to the Committee Stage progress of the Bill, we can put the question "That section 3 be deleted.". Is that an answer, or what would the Minister of State suggest from his own analysis? He will appreciate that this is the first I have heard of this.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I think it is within our scope to delete the section from the Bill. It can be revisited on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Shortall would return on Report Stage with a suitably-worded proposition that will overcome the difficulty.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, I do not think the Minister of State is precluded from offering amendments. We have already dealt with other Private Members' Bills, and there have been amendments to them.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are trying to tease out whether it is only a procedural situation at this point. This is the first time that this has been presented in the way that it has, and I am endeavouring to be guided by what I am hearing. Acknowledging the Minister of State's experience and the support of his Department, if he is telling me that we are not in a position to proceed with section 3 as presented at...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is an alternative wording.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no doubt that Deputy Shortall would be in a position to bring that forward.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nothing in my knowledge of the progress of legislation tells me that she could not. The Minister of State has suggested, rather than wording the proposition as I suggested initially, that I word it in the positive and members agree that it does not stand part of the Bill.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am anxious to proceed. That was the purpose and intent of the committee and we are just carrying through what the committee has already mandated us to do. With the advice that is open to the Minister of State is he absolutely of a mind, and is it his understanding, that we are not in a position to allow section 3 stand at this juncture? Flawed though it may be, are we not in a position...