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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Courts Service (10 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: We need as much pressure as possible brought to bear on this to ensure we can deliver as quickly as possible. I fully appreciate that the Courts Service has done a lot of work and done its best in the context of the pandemic. However, there are people out there who find themselves before the courts, and I have spoken to a number of them. For some it is a family issue and for others it is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (10 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: 1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant positions currently in the Judiciary on all courts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42653/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (10 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: I would also like to congratulate the Minister on her pregnancy. It is always good to have children coming into the world, particularly here in the Oireachtas. Hopefully she will set a trend. I wish to discuss the number of vacant positions in the Judiciary, including on the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Circuit Courts and the District Courts. I ask the Minister to make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (10 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. One issue that has clearly come to the fore is the difficulty we have in ensuring a clear and transparent process. I welcome the new commission and I hope it will bring clarity. For any position in the private sector, the public sector or anywhere else, there is generally a clear process. People can understand why a person gets the position he or she gets over the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (10 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. It would be useful if she could give us a date by which she expects to introduce that legislation. Will it be in the first quarter of the coming year? When does she expect us to get it through the Oireachtas? This has become an urgent issue of grave public interest and concern. The sooner we can get down to brass tacks and deal with this issue, the better.

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: I am glad to be here to support and endorse this legislation tabled by Deputies McDonald and O'Reilly. In most cases, we know that women and children are the victims of domestic violence, but sometimes it can be men. In general, however, it involves women. They are most vulnerable in these circumstances and find themselves in a catastrophic situation when their only place of refuge is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (1 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of court summonses outstanding on a monthly basis by Garda division since January 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39829/20]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: I have a short comment in respect of that. I understand what the Minister is saying but is it the case that if the image is up there, one has to wait until the criminal offence is proven before it is removed? It could be a long period from the victim in this situation saying that he or she wants the image taken down until it is proven that a criminal offence has occurred.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: The situations that can occur are often between minors, where two 15-year-olds share an image and that image becomes public and then somebody else takes it and shares it more broadly. The victims in a case like this may not want to admit, make a complaint or do anything. Perhaps it will be on their minds and cause damage for years afterwards. A complaint may not come to the surface for...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Martin Kenny: With regard to amendment No. 24, the image in most of these cases is that of another person, whereas I am not sure whether it fully deals with people who sends an unsolicited image of themselves to somebody else.

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: That is not the point.

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: But the Minister did not inform the Taoiseach.

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: It would be better to have a back-and-forth process, if that is possible.

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: We all know we must get some facts out, including that Séamus Woulfe was a long-time Fine Gael party activist. That has not been disputed by the Minister or anybody else. He sat around the Fine Gael Cabinet table for four years. The Minister took up her role on 27 June. She got a list of four names on 6 July, including candidates with long judicial experience. In record time, a...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: To be clear, the Minister is saying that basically she spoke to one person in Cabinet and that was the Tánaiste in respect of this issue. If that is the case, it means that the Minister and the Tánaiste were the ones who made this decision. That is clearly what the Minister is saying. The Minister is also saying, which is vital to this issue, that she did not inform the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: Who else did the Minister speak to?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Carthy. The facts of the matter before us are as follows. On 27 June, the Minister for Justice took office. Waiting on her desk when she arrived in the Department were four applications for the job of Supreme Court judge, a massive job carrying a salary, in excess of €220,000, paid for by taxpayers. The Minister had four applications - not one, as she...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: 20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his counterpart in the UK Government in relation to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; if he will provide an update on the independent police team's analytic report into the Glenanne series of cases that was announced by the PSNI on 30 November 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32085/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of the catheterization laboratory in Sligo University Hospital. At the moment there is a temporary cath lab that is available a couple of times per week. This is an ongoing issue and there has been a campaign to put in place the service for many years. People who live in the north west and who need the service are being deprived of it. There...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: No. He was recommended as being suitable for consideration by JAAB, not for the job.