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Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (19 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: 84. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a scheme put forward by a union (details supplied) by which women could access contraception directly from their community pharmacist without prescription and without charge regardless of eligibility in order to improve access to contraceptives. [17009/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fund a purpose built ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and when funding will be made available. [17170/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (19 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: 256. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry to ensure new medicines are available to persons with MS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17338/18]

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Wallace. I listened to the debate last night. Many colleagues laid out many of the gaps and issues associated with the Bill so I will certainly not repeat some of them. I want to take some time, however, to put in context why data protection and privacy are such important matters and why the GDPR is such a significant regulation to which we must all...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: I have just a couple of brief questions. This is virtually an impossible task given the scale of each of the Votes and projects that we have before us. It gives an indication of the scale of the Department and the job of scrutinising it is not that easy. I have a couple of quick questions on the Garda Vote. In terms of recruitment, especially civilianisation, I note that the pay...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: If that is merely a transfer and the Minister is taking it out on one side and putting it in on the other, it still does not address the fact of who will pay for the increased civilianisation that we are promised. Let us be clear, the 2015 Garda Inspectorate report stated enhanced civilianisation was necessary. According to the Policing Authority's reports in here, that is well off target....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: If the moneys were made available last year for 500 and the moneys provided for this year are the same apart from the Minister's transfer and are not a reduction, it is the same 500 who were not recruited last year whom we are now providing for this year?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: Where is the extra money coming from then because the Estimate is the same? With the Minister's qualification of the transfer of moneys, the Estimate is not a reduction now. It is the same as the outturn for last year, as what was actually spent last year.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: Where is that shown in the Estimate?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: Which?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: That is exactly my point. It is the same 500 whom we are providing for and there is no growth. The impression is being given that we are recruiting all these civilians whereas we know for a fact that is not being done. The moneys being set aside is the same money not spent on civilianisation.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: I fully accept that. Presumably, for last year's figures we did not show the full cost for them either. It is carried over, year from year. The comparison is the same.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: Why was it less?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: How many of the 500 were recruited?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: The Minister is stating then the allocation for next year is 719.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: Are moneys being provided for the 719 extra civilians so? The Minister should put the word out to all and sundry that there will be loads of jobs going in the Garda for civilians now.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: I will not labour the point, but the Minister will be aware that the Policing Authority's December report expressed the view that targets were well off and it had huge concern about that. We will park that.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: The ICT issue is complex and important. It is important in the context of the work that this committee is undertaking, but also much of the discussion in the public domain about the accuracy of information, the importance of data collection and the outdated nature of PULSE and the other IT systems. The way in which the accounts are dealt with it is difficult to see where everything lies in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: What I actually asked was how much had been expended to date because some of the moneys had been announced previously. How much of the allocation of €330 million for ICT between 2016 and 2021 has been expended to date?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: It would be good if the Minister could give us the figure because it is very hard to keep track of it. He told us that the allocation for ICT would cover automatic number plate recognition technology in all Garda vehicles. We know that in 2015 the programme had to be suspended because of the errors in the database and because hundreds of thousands of drivers had been wrongly identified as...