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Written Answers — Autism Services: Autism Services (4 May 2004)

Tim O'Malley: Responsibility for the provision of services to persons with intellectual disability or autism in the Dublin region lies with the Eastern Regional Health Authority. My Department has therefore, written to the regional chief executive of the authority and asked him to investigate the matter of speech and language therapy. The other issues raised by the Deputy are a matter for the Department of...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Tim O'Malley: I support the Government's proposals on citizenship. There are really only a few simple questions which we need to answer in order to convince ourselves that the Government is following the correct course. Is the current law on citizenship satisfactory? The answer is clear: the current law on citizenship is unsatisfactory. It is noticeable that no party leader of national standing has...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Tim O'Malley: I did not interrupt Deputy O'Keeffe when he was speaking.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Tim O'Malley: The issue we face is very simple. Should children born in Ireland get automatic citizenship even if neither parent has any real connection with Ireland or with the Irish people? The Oireachtas should have the power to determine the entitlement to Irish citizenship of children, neither of whose parents is an Irish citizen or is entitled to Irish citizenship. That is the reason I will vote...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Tim O'Malley: We have almost as many Deputies as the party the Deputy represents.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: While I am sympathetic to the concerns regarding accountability outlined by the Senator, I am reluctant to provide for the provision of information to the Minister for the specific purpose of answering parliamentary questions. Section 16 already provides that the authority shall give the Minister such information regarding its performance as the Minister may require and I am satisfied that is...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: These are technical amendments inserting appropriate cross-references.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is another technical amendment removing a superfluous phrase.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: While I have some sympathy for the amendment, I am reluctant to accept it in the context of this Bill. The position regarding the involvement of members of the gardaí and the Defence Forces in providing security services while off-duty is as follows. As regards the gardaí, any such off duty activity is already prohibited. The Garda Síochána disciplinary regulations define prohibitive,...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This amendment raises the interesting issue of the eligibility of persons convicted of serious crimes to get licences to provide security services. The 1997 consultative group report recommended that an application to hold a licence should be refused outright by the authority if the applicant had been convicted of a range of listed serious offences. These include murder, rape or sexual...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: Section 29(7) makes it an offence for an individual to produce for inspection an identity card issued to another person by the authority or to forge or use a document purporting to be such an identity card. It does not deal specifically with a situation in which a person produces an identification document issued by a corresponding authority to another person or a forgery of such a document....

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is a minor drafting amendment.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is essentially a drafting amendment designed to clarify the content and improve the presentation of section 50(1).

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is essentially a drafting amendment designed to clarify the content and improve the presentation of paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 2.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: Schedule 2 sets out the procedure for dealing with appeals. The provisions regarding the service of a notice of appeal by an appellant and the making of submissions by other persons allow each person to make only one submission in regard to the appeal unless the appeal board requests further submissions or observations from that person. The proposed amendment is inconsistent with that...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: The advice from the Attorney General is to proceed in the way we have. I cannot, therefore, accept the amendment.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is a technical amendment. It amends the paragraph dealing with oral hearings of appeals by inserting a new subparagraph in order to make it clear that the time limit within which a party to the appeal, other than the authority, can request an oral hearing shall be one month from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is a technical amendment. It updates the list of provisions in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 that do not apply to relevant persons in order to take account of previous amendments.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: These two amendments provide that any standards laid down by the authority in relation to the provision of security services in the State shall apply also to the relevant persons. An example might be technical standards for the protection of cash in transit. These standards will have to be respected irrespective of whether the person concerned is a licensee who holds a licence from the...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is a technical amendment involving the deletion of a superfluous paragraph in Schedule 3.