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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 139:In page 31, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(3) If the Commission cannot, in accordance with this Act, recommend to the Minister any names of persons to fill a judicial vacancy, it shall invite, through means of advertisement, the making of applications by persons to be considered for selection, that is for their being selected to be the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I believe the Minister has proven my point in some ways. He said that if a good person was out there who became available for Government but did not make him or herself known to the commission, then the Government could hand-pick that person. However, if a good person was out there, he or she could be nominated within the three months when the commission re-advertises. That person,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy O’Callaghan is afraid that he will be speaking for the job.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: It may be that the outcome will not be the same. However, we are talking about transparency and procedures. The Minister used a scenario in which the board could not recommend anyone, the Government said all the recommendations were brutal but had a person in mind and appointed that person. What is wrong with informing the individual that the job would be re-advertised, he or she could...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 140:In page 31, to delete lines 29 to 40. This amendment proposes to remove the obligation on the commission to forward the names and the application packs to the Minister for review. It will allow instead for the position to be re-advertised.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 147:In page 32, to delete lines 11 to 14. This is the same matter and it removes the circumstances where the commission cannot agree to nominate anybody and it takes out its ability to send on the stuff to the Minister.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 149:In page 32, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:“ Appointment as Chief Justice, President of the Court of Appeal, and President of the High Court46. (1) Where—(a) the judicial office of Chief Justice, President of the Court of Appeal or President of the High Court stands vacant, or (b) the Minister reasonably apprehends that any of those...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: The legislation clearly indicates "the Minister shall convene a meeting of the following persons" - the Chief Justice, the chairperson and the Attorney General - and "those persons, so convened, shall be known as the Senior Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee". I am not clear on that. The Minister's role is still there, although the Minister has argued it is not. The question of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: If we have everybody there, we will get through it a lot quicker. I do not think there is really any talking left.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Military Exports (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 53. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the 47% increase in the value of military exports between 2015 and 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5767/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Data (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 58. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the six-month export licence statistics covering the period July 2017 to December 2017 will be published. [5766/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a case (details supplied) in view of recent revelations regarding discrepancies in allocation of homicide figures being incorrectly categorised as accidental or suicide. [6280/18]

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: The Minister can dress it up any way he likes but it has been established that there has been Garda involvement in the drugs trade in Athlone. It is a fact that no action has been taken against those responsible. It is a fact that the person who made the allegations is out sick and his senior manager has recently been promoted despite being at the centre of allegations of bullying and...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to review the supports available to Garda whistleblowers, particularly in view of GSOC's acknowledgement of its lack of resources in fulfilling this function; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5652/18]

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the adequacies, or rather inadequacies, of GSOC with regard to its ability to deal with its function as the recipient of protected disclosures from Garda whistleblowers. This is a matter Deputy Wallace and I have raised on repeated instances, even at the time the legislation was brought forward. We are heartened by the fact GSOC now agrees with us and has itself...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I am afraid the Minister and I are certainly not at one because he is satisfied and I am not, and I am not the only one who is not satisfied. GSOC itself is not satisfied and, more particularly, the Garda whistleblowers who have made protected disclosures to that organisation are not satisfied. There is a very real reason for this, which is that their legitimate complaints which were...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Today’s business shall be No. 9, motion re Sectoral Employment Order (Mechanical Engineering Building Services Contracting Sector) 2018, referral to joint committee, without debate; No. 30, statements on the centenary of women's suffrage; and No. 1, Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad] Second Stage. Private Members business shall be No. 170, motion re rural broadband, selected...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I welcome the Minister for Health's initiative to put in place an external review, but it is not enough and it is not a substitute for an inquest. There are a lot of questions around the review, including what the terms of reference and qualifications of a reviewer will be and whether it will be capable of public scrutiny. There is something very wrong in the Department of Justice and...