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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: The purpose of today's meeting is to have a discussion with Ms Vra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency. We are joined by a member of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Deputy Ó Murchú, who is very welcome. All participants are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I thank Ms Jourová. The positivity is welcome, as is the criticism with regard to where Ireland is falling down. I have one question before I hand over the Senator Ruane. The Senator has an engagement and I want to bring her in first. Ms Jourová referred to the voting rights of mobile citizens. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: That is interesting from an Irish perspective also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: The Senator can send it through the office and we will forward it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: Deputy Costello may also be under pressure so I invite him to come in at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I was reading, on page 6 of the report, about the number of judges in Ireland. Ms Jourová said that more judges were needed to deal with the backlog of cases and that we had the lowest number of judges, per head of population, in the EU and that there have been some other concerns expressed because following Covid there are backlogs, especially in family law cases. Citizens' access to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: As noted in the report, the judicial planning working group is expected to publish its report this month. We look forward to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I was wondering whether Deputy Ó Murchú was going to rejoin us. Apologies have been received from Deputies Alan Farrell, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Martin Kenny, as well as from the Chairman, Deputy Lawless. Unfortunately, they cannot be here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: Does the Deputy have anything further?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: There is a right to a fair and speedy trial under our Constitution. There is also much to be said about the separation of powers. Ms Jourová's report included the appointment of judges, the composition of the judicial appointments commission and looked at other European standards related that. She defended the idea that a majority of judges be represented on the commission. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I pay tribute to the work that has gone on in the various Departments in accommodating Ukrainians. Last Friday I was at one of the centres in Tralee, which has some non-Ukrainian asylum seekers, and they are in tents. The system is under a particular strain, which I hope will be addressed soon by the Departments that have tried to prevent that from happening with the winter coming up....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: We are running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: If there are any other questions, the Deputy can submit them like Senator Ruane did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Council Rule of Law Report 2022 and Rule of Law Situation in Ireland: Engagement with Ms Vra Jourová (11 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I will wrap it up. I thank everyone for attending. Dkuji. I hope we can maintain lines of communication with each other. This is a very important issue. We will wait to see some of the reports that will come out this month and the response of the State to some of the claps on the back and the criticisms that our guests have raised with us.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a pupil (details supplied) will receive their school bus ticket. [48929/22]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (5 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na haíonna go léir. Is dócha gurb é an rud is annamh is iontach: táimid go léir ar aon intinn. Bhí sé suimiúil a bheith ag éisteacht le Declan Glynn mar gheall ar thuismitheoirí ag roghnú bunscoileanna mar bheadh sé níos éasca díolúine a fháil iontu. I ráiteas Aontas...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (5 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: Is iad na daltaí sa scoil féin atá i gceist agam.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (5 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: An bhfuil síceolaí le cáil ann?

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: I spoke to the housing officer in Kerry a fortnight ago who told me that three families in Kerry are becoming homeless every week. That is three families who have, by and large, been in rented accommodation for the past ten, 12 or 15 years and now face going into one room in a homeless shelter before they can get somewhere else, if they can get somewhere else. The housing crisis in Kerry is,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of Way (4 Oct 2022)

Pa Daly: 553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she intends to bring forward new proposals in the area of right-of-way laws. [48441/22]