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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Illegal Adoptions (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: We will discuss the scoping exercise this afternoon and I am sure every Member's input will stress the urgency. In the interim, however, there are older and vulnerable people who, in some instances, do not have months or years to wait for that process. In this context the expertise of a person such as Sharon Lawless, who produced "Adoption Stories" for TV3, is important. People like her,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Illegal Adoptions (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to widen the scope of the investigation into illegal birth registrations beyond the initial sampling exercise to include all of those homes and private agencies involved in organising adoptions in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25106/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Illegal Adoptions (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: My question is on widening the scope of the investigation into illegal birth registrations beyond the initial sampling exercise to include more broadly the homes and private agencies that were involved. I note that the Minister told Deputy Mitchell that she was open to this, but the key point is that this is an ageing community and there must be urgency in carrying out the exercise. It must...

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

Clare Daly: I thank the Chairman. I must apologise because I have a priority question to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and I may have to leave for a short period. I intend no disrespect to anybody present. It is regrettable that we do not have the names of all the officials. It would be nice to know who everybody is.

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

Clare Daly: We might get a woman up front the next time.

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

Clare Daly: I thank the Minister. I wish to raise a number of broad-ranging issues. If I do not get an opportunity to raise them before my priority question comes up in the Dáil, I hope to come back and do more at the end of the meeting. On the issue of the right to work and the reception conditions directive, the Minister is confident that we will meet the deadline 17 days from now. I am not...

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

Clare Daly: I am a bit unclear on some of that. The Minister is telling us he cannot give us any fuller details. The committee is adult enough to take on board fuller details with the health warning that Government approval is required. The fact he cannot even give us greater detail is a little concerning. With regard to the point about the flagrant breach, I was referring to the fact the Minister...

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

Clare Daly: Is that something the Minister cannot answer?

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

Clare Daly: The Irish Refugee Council.

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

Clare Daly: When was that? The council's representatives appeared before the committee and gave an impressive presentation on the reception conditions. The committee welcomed their involvement and felt that they had a positive and worthwhile role to play. We would be particularly concerned if their views were not taken into account. I am not sure about an acknowledgement from the Department that it...

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

Clare Daly: They knew departmental officials were at their conference but the point they were making was precisely that their expertise could have assisted the Department, which, let us face it, has been found to be operating an arrangement that was unlawful by denying access. External advice to the Department would have been welcome, particularly by the IRC, but that did not happen. Based on what the...

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

Clare Daly: I do not think I have ever heard as brutal a response from a Minister at this committee. I do not mean it in a personal way when I say it was absolute and utter waffle and nonsense. Given that we are talking about legislation which has been prioritised by two Ministers, it is ridiculous to flag legislation that has not even been drafted yet. The legislation in question has been in the...

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

Clare Daly: I refer again to the Prisons (Solitary Confinement) (Amendment) Bill 2016, and the money message to the House.

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

Clare Daly: I just want to set the record straight on the Minister's liaison with my office, and to acknowledge my staff's work. The liaison between my office and the Department on the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2017 has been driven by my office, and fair play to my assistants for constantly sitting on the Department and making sure that it is not forgotten about. I do not accept that as a great bonus....

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

Clare Daly: The problem is that again, the Minister said that he does not want GSOC to be in a position where it does not have the resources to do its work. However, it does not have those resources. On 8 June 2017, GSOC was given a commitment that it would be given the resources by the Minister. We are in June discussing the annual budget. More than half of the year has gone, and the commission has...

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

Clare Daly: The business plan was submitted in February. I have other questions about the Garda. I am leaving to ask my question in the Chamber. If we have time at the end of the meeting, I will deal with the other Garda stuff. The Minister did not deal with the Prisons (Solitary Confinement) (Amendment) Bill 2016.

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

Clare Daly: I know there are loads of Bills subject to money messages, and I know it is a matter for the Government. What I asked was whether the Minister had a problem with that being used to delay the passage of important legislation such as this, and whether it was appropriate for that would be the case.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: 42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will seek to seize records immediately in order to transfer them to a central location in which they can be fully audited and preserved in view of the scale of documents held by private adoption agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25107/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the number and type of seizures and suspected adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine reported to the HPRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25807/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: 123. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the HSE promotional campaign for the HPV vaccine which contains captions such as armed for life and protect our future and states that the HPV vaccine protects girls from getting cervical cancer when they are older in view of information (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25808/18]