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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are into a slightly new area here in terms of what the Minister has indicated. I note it very carefully. I absolutely concur that a meeting with the family is important. Such a meeting is essential. I hope that it will still be possible to do as the Minister said at the outset in his first reply to Senator Ó Donnghaile and that progress can be made on this issue. That is what I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister come back to us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is no more than these former members deserve. I know the Minister has been in the dock on the case of Mr. Shane O'Farrell, both last evening and last week. I did not expect it back so quickly. It would, however, be remiss of this committee not to reflect on it. His mother has been one of the most regular correspondents with this committee. We do not, however, as a committee, deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister. We will hope. I will address three items of legislation because they have not been flagged. There is delayed legislation on the family law courts. The Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 also comes before this committee. It was flagged initially as part of the reason that we had not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The capacity legislation-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----in respect of the decisions support service. It is an Act now but some elements have not been commenced. When the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 was first presented here it was the Equality-Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. We corresponded, initially, with the Minister's predecessor and the Department of Justice and Equality on that on a number of occasions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand that and will accept that in respect of the latter two items but can the Minister give us an update on promised legislation in the area of the family law courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Please do. It is an issue we have identified as part of our priority programme and we would welcome such an update. The last-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I made reference earlier to slow replies. Is the Minister himself or are his officials aware that there is a requirement on each Department to reply to a committee regarding recommendations contained in a report submitted for the Department's attention and address within a three-month period? This has only recently been confirmed by the Taoiseach himself. The matter came before a meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It only remains for me to thank Senator Black for holding course with me and again to thank the Minister and his officials for attending. If there is nothing further - and I am exhausted - then that is that.

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Week after week we are being exposed to the horrors of very dark periods from our past that were either overseen or facilitated by several arms of the State that should have been protecting its citizens rather than treating them as disgracefully as it did. The adoption of children into loving, welcoming and caring homes in situations where all criteria set down by regulations are met and...

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Today is another one of those significant days in the modernisation of our country and society. We must never forget the past, of course, but we must also recognise that once we learn from and act on the mistakes of the past, of which this State has made some very dark ones, then in this case particularly, the rainbows that will shine into the future will be brighter for it. The decision of...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Answer the question that was asked.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are 361 citizens lying on hospital trolleys in the corridors of our hospitals all over the country as this motion is being debated. This figure represents 72 more than on the same date in 2017 and 43 more than on the same date in 2016. It is an indictment of us as a society that, when it comes to our health system, we now reference the suffering of our citizens as figures. We need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I remind members to please switch off their mobile phones, as they interfere with the recording equipment. We have no apologies notified, so we shall go into private session briefly to deal with housekeeping matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Protocol 21 of the Treaty of Lisbon: Minister for Justice and Equality (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The purpose of today's session is to consider a proposal by the Government to opt-in, pursuant to Protocol 21 of the Lisbon Treaty, to a proposal for a directive laying down rules facilitating the use of financial and other information for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of certain criminal offences and repealing Council Decision 642JHA. I welcome the Minister for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Protocol 21 of the Treaty of Lisbon: Minister for Justice and Equality (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat. I appreciate that the Minister's opening statement was not lengthy. However, I wish Members to note that the secretariat was not sent a copy of his statement prior to the meeting so Members did not receive it. I know such a situation can be an impediment to Members picking up on the points that the Minister has just shared. I shall open up the debate to Members and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Protocol 21 of the Treaty of Lisbon: Minister for Justice and Equality (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I advise Deputy Jack Chambers that Deputy Ó Laoghaire is next to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Protocol 21 of the Treaty of Lisbon: Minister for Justice and Equality (20 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I call Deputy Jack Chambers.