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

Jonathan O'Brien: Does the Minister agree there needs to be a change in the legal status of drugs if the Government is to bring about medically supervised injection centres? If there is to be a health-led approach to harm reduction, it indicates the legal status of some drugs needs to be examined. The national drugs strategy is a five pillar strategy but some of these pillars are falling down....

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

Jonathan O'Brien: 5. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if taking a harm-reduction approach to drug law reform has a role in tackling organised crime. [10197/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: When the Minister published the report, she said she would ask the Garda Commissioner to examine it and indicate what further measures might be taken to prevent this type of difficulty in the future. She said she would seek the Commissioner’s proposals concerning the implementation of the recommendations made. Given the nature of reports in recent days, particularly in the Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The statement of clarification last night actually clarifies nothing. There is an issue that needs to be clarified because there are media reports that state the media have seen documentation alleging the Garda Commissioner instructed her legal team to insinuate malice on the part of Sergeant McCabe. If that is the case, it calls into question her credibility. If she is saying one thing in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to implement the recommendations of the O'Higgins report. [10196/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the processing times for European Union treaty rights visa applications for qualifying family members; and the steps she is taking to ensure compliance with the requirement to process such applications on the basis of an accelerated procedure. [10157/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to introduce legislative provisions in the forthcoming legislation amending the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau to direct moneys seized by the bureau back to the communities that are worst affected by crime. [10156/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bail Law (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend bail conditions. [10376/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a public defender system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10377/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the Teaching Council's review of the Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2009 under the Teaching Council Acts; if draft regulations have been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9382/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the review of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme. [9697/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review procedures for parents to access teachers under the July provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9718/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that a person (details supplied) is being refused a reader for the leaving certificate examination in June 2016, despite having had a reader for the junior certificate; and to reverse this decision. [10118/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to change the policy under the reasonable accommodations scheme given the recent court decision on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Advisory Group (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the Drugs Advisory Group. [9805/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (17 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, can fast-track applications by elderly persons who were adopted in childhood and who are seeking to access information regarding their birth family; and if she has examined the potential for this process to be put in place. [9627/16]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Will the Deputy sit back down on his hands?

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Abstaining is not opposition.

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I agree completely with one of his points. He said that there is almost a perception that if a person comes from a disadvantaged community, he is automatically going to grow up to be involved in crime. That is not always the case - we all know that. However, Deputy Brophy needs to recognise the reality that if a person comes from a particularly disadvantaged or marginalised community, that...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Like previous speakers, I had a few written notes but I will also go off script based on what I have heard since the start of the contributions. To be honest, I am a little disappointed with the debate. This is not for any particular reason. However, one of the issues where there should be no difference of opinion is that of condemning criminality, but we have made a political football of...