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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 765. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any evaluation by his Department of the outcome of the policy approach taken to banning head shops and the drugs that were sold in them. [13555/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 911. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reduction in funding to anti-domestic violence support organisations and refuges for women and their children in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date. [12566/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 912. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding she has allocated to anti-domestic violence support organisations and refuges for women and their children; and the names of the organisations that have received funding. [12567/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 913. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of restoring funding to Rape Crisis Centres to 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015 levels. [12568/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 914. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of restoring funding to Women’s Aid to 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015 levels. [12569/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Bail Law (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 915. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to resource age-appropriate bail programmes and effective bail supports. [12652/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Detention Centres Data (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 916. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the guidelines in place for the single separation of children in detention. [12653/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rape Crisis Network Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 917. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of reinstating core funding to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland. [12921/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 918. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing anti-domestic violence services so they can meet demand and ensure Ireland meets international standards for refuge provision. [12570/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 919. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing Womens Aid to fund the extension of the national freephone helpline to become a 24 hour, seven day a week service. [12571/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (31 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 925. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ring-fence domestic and sexual violence funds within Tusla. [12922/16]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: In due course, I will come to the statement released by the Commissioner earlier today, but it is important first to look at the O'Higgins report and exactly what it contains. We know that it was a recommendation from the Guerin report, and on 19 November 2014 the Government decided that the matters were of such public concern that they warranted a commission of investigation. A resolution...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: -----by design or directly connected, but it was certainly an unfortunate timing of events. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from that. Maybe the Minister's hand was forced by some of the selective leaking. If it was not, then I think it was a poor judgment on the Minister's behalf to see the report published and then to leave the State and not be available to make statements on it....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Council of Europe (25 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 76. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures she will follow in appointing Irish nominees to committees of the Council of Europe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12004/16]

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I also congratulate the Minister of State on her appointment. I do not have much time but I could speak for an hour on this issue. I am glad the three Ministers in the Department are present because one of the issues I have come across is that of dual diagnosis where somebody has a mental health issue and an addiction and how they are dealt with. There is no single solution. Everyone has...

Order of Business (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Taoiseach is not ignorant.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding and resources she will ring-fence in budget 2017 to ensure the full implementation of the Istanbul Convention, the second national strategy on gender-based violence and the victims Directive, as promised in the programme for Government. [11175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 75. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that all ranks in An Garda Síochána are diligent in taking proper units, and that unit sergeants regularly monitor the performance of their unit members in this regard, as set out in the recommendations of the Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to the Cavan/Monaghan Division of the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (24 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 390. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence sections 20 to 23, inclusive, of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11852/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Drugs Strategy (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I agree we must have an holistic and multifaceted approach but the one constant which has remained for the past 30 or 40 years, as far back as the 1970s, is the criminalisation of the addicts themselves. This policy has completely failed. We now have a situation where more people are addicted to drugs and we have more drug-related deaths than ever before. This policy is counter-productive...