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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision has been made to downgrade University Hospital Kerry from a model 3 hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: 733. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1429 of 9 September 2021, if the required permission cited in the question for general practitioners taking annual leave was given in the case of a general practitioner (details supplied) for 2021; if an application for reimbursement for a locum was received by the HSE to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: 772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who requested mental health services in University Hospital Kerry accident and emergency department in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46552/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have one or two questions for Ms Matthews. I thank her for her presentation. Tralee court is part of the built heritage of Tralee town and was designed by a local apprentice architect, who was 16 years old. It was quarried from limestone in the centre of the town about 200 yd from where the courthouse stands. Ms Matthews mentioned the significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: So the preference is to keep the existing building if at all possible. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: Is the witness aware that in any of the reviews conducted of the courthouses, a grade 1 example was indicated? She spoke about conservation legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: I know a number of courthouses around the country have been refurbished, including Letterkenny and Limerick for example. What was the budget for the Letterkenny court and what kind of money was available for refurbishing the court?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: Is the figure for the site available? Was it owned by the State already?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: From reading the opening statement, I noted that 57% of the court venues seem to have been closed in the past 21 years. The witnesses accept that courthouses bring extra business to town centres and the average jury panel, which sits for a week or perhaps more, would be in the region of approximately 200 people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: Those 200 people are in addition to gardaí, court staff, probation officers, legal professionals, witnesses, defendants and family members all coming to the centre of town. The witnesses are aware that towns have developed around courthouses. In Tralee there is Courthouse Lane, for example, and in Fermoy there is Courthouse Lawn. Many of the businesses around the area depend on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: The number of prisoners coming to a court reduced by approximately half.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: The Courts Service discusses what constitutes value for money for the Exchequer but that is not the only consideration. The witnesses would accept that we must take into account the national planning framework, a new Government emphasis on the benefit to town centres, spatial strategies and climate and environment concerns, as referenced by Ms Matthews. There is also the question of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: There were plans for wheelchair accessibility going back approximately ten years into the previous century. Wheelchair-accessibility has never been a feature of the courthouse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: Right. A former Minister with responsibility for justice told me otherwise. Has any consideration been given to having the family law and civil courts in the existing court building and maybe the courthouse requiring juries in another part of the town?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Courts and Courthouses: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Pa Daly: That is despite that in many other venues-----