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Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have no difficulty with these amendments and I will support them. An amendment in my name was ruled out of order. I accept the Ceann Comhairle's ruling but I want to put the Minister on notice that an amendment dealing with the potential of entering a verdict of iatrogenic suicide will be introduced in the Seanad. I ask the Minister to bear in that the issue will be debated in the Seanad.

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is difficult to follow that contribution, and I have little enough to add. I support the point that has been made very eloquently and passionately by Deputy Clare Daly that there is a clear need for mandatory inquests into maternal deaths. In the past some people have tried to paint Ireland as a country with no problems around maternity and health, but clearly the experiences of many...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Hear, hear.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is a pity the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is not here to account for his and the Government's policy failures in respect of the housing crisis. Deputy Ó Broin has pointed out that the Government is entirely failing to arrest runaway rents. There are supposed to be rent pressure zones in Cork city but there has been a 10% increase in...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Second Stage (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Táim ag tacú leis an mBille seo. Tá roinnt cáineadh a bhféadfaimís a dhéanamh faoin mBille seo mar atá sé, agus go bhféadfadh sé a bheith níos fearr. B’fhéidir go mbeimid ag déileáil leis sin trí leasuithe ag Céim an Choiste. Is Bille tábhachtach é an Bille seo ó thaobh comhionannais...

Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I commend Deputy Shortall and her party, as well as the Minister of State and other Oireachtas Members who supported this legislation. Deputy Shortall has described this Bill as making a modest difference. However, it will make a real and significant difference for many parents and families. Raising a child is one of the most important things anyone will ever do. It is an ambition for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Issues (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the reason for the drop in the number of personnel exchanges from An Garda Síochána to the PSNI from 2015 onwards; the reason for the drop in the length of exchanges from an initial duration of two months to the current duration of three weeks; the quality of feedback reports on these exchanges; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Issues (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he has taken to promote exchanges and secondments between An Garda Síochána and the PSNI and vice versa beyond the initial legislation. [20463/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Issues (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if members of An Garda Síochána and-or the PSNI transfer on a temporary basis to aid with individual investigations; and if so, the legislation under which same is carried out. [20464/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda juvenile liaison officers attached to each Garda division in each of the years 2009 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [20474/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí attached to each Garda division in each of the years 2009 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [20485/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí attached to each station in the Cork city division. [20486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles attached to the Cork city division that are ten years old or older. [20487/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 16 April 2019, if the areas (details supplied) will not be included in a rent pressure zone. [20451/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (14 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 16 April 2019, the processes that will exist for ensuring that electoral areas that have recently been redrawn potentially affecting the calculation of average rents and average rent increases can be included in rent pressure zones. [20452/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (8 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the number of customs officers in County Cork in the context of Brexit. [20023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (8 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a formal decision was taken to allow PSNI officers to carry weapons here which has been reported as being the case since 2013. [18540/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (8 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a formal decision was taken to allow PSNI officers to carry weapons here which has been reported as being the case since 2013; if not, the level at which the decision was taken; and if the decision was communicated to other Departments after the decision was taken. [18541/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (8 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a formal decision was taken to allow PSNI officers to carry weapons here which has been reported as being the case since 2013. [18542/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Certificates (8 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times firearms certificates have been granted to personnel from other jurisdictions; the personnel granted certificates and the circumstances in which they were granted. [18543/19]