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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Mr. Carroll for his presentation. I open the opportunity to members to ask questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does Deputy Daly have anything further to add?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will park that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before I bring this session to close, Mr. Carroll indicated he was uncertain about the reasons longer sentences are being handed down. Does he believe there are forces in society, for instance, media-led commentary on crime with a small or big C, that influence sentencing? Are these factors influencing judges' disposition towards particular circumstances? While I cannot remember the name...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Garda youth diversion programme is primarily targeted, certainly in my experience and from where I come, at certain communities and is viewed almost as a form of labelling of children from a particular part of town, housing scheme or whatever. It is unnecessary to have this association. The scheme had a different designation previously and should have a different one again. There is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The purpose of this part of our meeting is to have an engagement with the Prison Officers Association on the issue of penal policy and reform. The joint committee has identified this as one of its priority issues in its 2017 work programme. I welcome Mr. John Clinton, general secretary, and Mr. Jim Mitchell, deputy general secretary. On behalf of the committee, I thank them both for their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Mr. Clinton. We appreciate very much the detail of his opening address. Deputy O'Callaghan was the first to indicate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We would like to see it back as soon as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a final set of questions. In Mr. Clinton's opening address he indicated that last Thursday, the day before St. Patrick's Day, there were 3,793 people in custody. Within that figure, 235 were in open centres. Has the witness any idea of the number of the remaining prisoners who could be in open centres? Has any such analysis been done? I presume an analysis has been done in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do we have drug-free areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They are formally designated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Prison Officers Association (22 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Please do. On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Clinton and Mr. Mitchell for their presentation and engagement with the committee for the past hour. It has been a very informative meeting which will assist the committee in its consideration of the broader issue. We will reflect on the ideas raised in our report which we will copy to the delegates once it has been published.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Army Barracks (21 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Dún Uí Neill barracks site at Cavan town is no longer intended as an extended campus facility for Cavan Institute; his plans for this site; the main anchors of the alternative use now planned; the alternative arrangements that will now be made to facilitate Cavan Institute's floor space needs; and if he will make a...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While I thank the Minister of State for his reply, I must say, with considerable regret, that there is no solace in his response for the families involved. The Minister of State said that the HSE "plans to explore" and so forth but all of this amounts to no early resolution of the difficulties with which these families are contending. This is critically important and I urge the Minister of...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: For the record, I am referring to services in Baldoyle, not where the young person is domiciled. That would be four bus stops away for the young person in that case.

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Animal Disease Controls (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister referred to 12 cases. My question was not implying this is not the most up to date information; it was to ascertain when the cases occurred. Did they occur in February last, for instance, or further back in time? Has there been a period during which there was no recorded incident? With regard to the control measures, is the Minister giving any consideration to a review to...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At least seven young adults with disabilities who have been allocated day service places in St. Michael's House here in Dublin are unable to gain access to those places due to the absence of funding to cover transport. I am sure the Minister of State will agree that this is a shocking predicament for the service users and their families. One of the people affected left school in June last...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Animal Disease Controls (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given the fact that the disease control measures for avian influenza are being implemented on an all-Ireland basis, will the Minister lift the compulsory housing order on poultry as of 16 March, next Thursday, as is now being done in the North of the island?