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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I do not know if Mr. McGill is in a position to answer my final question. In terms of cybersecurity across different EU member states, there is a mixture of lead departments. Sometimes the department of defence is the primary authority while in other states it is the department of justice or national security. Have there been many interdepartmental discussions as to where best this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. McGill and Ms Heenan. I suspect we will be in touch over the coming period as the committee discusses its next approach to the pre-legislative scrutiny. I thank them for their time. I suggested previously that we take the next two briefings together and we can take questions on them collectively if that is agreed, or we can take each one separately. We will take both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Bruen. The next briefing is on the general scheme of the children (amendment) Bill 2024. To provide us with the briefing, I am very pleased to welcome Ms Marisa Gomez and Ms Susanna Gillespie. I understand Ms Gomez will make the opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank Ms Gomez. I propose that each member be given ten minutes to ask questions of either set of witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I call Deputy Brabazon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Is the Deputy happy enough? Does anybody else want to come in? I have a couple of points in terms of the criminal justice (violation of EU restrictive measures) Bill. I am not sure if our guests would be in a position to comment. Another member mentioned that Mr. Bruen ended on the phrase regarding the consistency of application of sanctions. The difficulty when we are dealing with EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I accept that. The notion of EU sanctions would be strengthened if they were based on decisions that were developed as a result of breaches of international law, as opposed to political decisions, which is often the case, but I accept Mr. Bruen's points in respect of the Bill. Perhaps Ms Gomez or Ms Gillespie could elaborate a little because I am not sure members of the public would fully...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Is there a concern that in that instance a child could have a more severe sentence than an adult would for the same crime given a child would be subject to the deferred sentence supervision order whereas an adult would have a suspended sentence and would ultimately be able to get on with their lives once they do not commit another crime? The child has a set of obligations put on them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Ms Gomez said it cannot be suspended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Okay, I think we will have a bit of work to do in pre-legislative scrutiny on that. There were two particularly important Supreme Court judgments this year. Obviously they happened after the heads of Bill had been drawn up. I am referring to DPP v. PB and DPP v. CC, which relate to statutory protection of anonymity afforded to children, the appropriateness of imposing life sentences on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the officials. Does anybody else want to make any final remarks? In the absence of any, I thank our guests. That concludes our engagement on the matter. Again, we thank all officials for their time. They are free to withdraw. Is it agreed the committee will go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters? It is.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman has failed to make preliminary rulings for 500 cases that have been before the Ombudsman for over five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39405/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 384. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual costs of removing point 2 on the Garda pay scale in order that Gardaí would go from point one to point 3 on the pay scale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39119/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 385. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual cost of removing point 5 on the Garda pay scale in order that Gardaí would go from point 4 to point 6 on the pay scale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39120/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected average cost, per day, per bed, of IPAS accommodation in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39233/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 724. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to District Court waiting processing times the reason for a 491-week processing time for juvenile charge sheets in the Criminal Courts of Justice as outlined in the Courts Service Annual Report for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to District Court waiting processing times the actions he will take to address the fact that four district courts have a processing time of over 100 weeks regarding childcare family law cases as outlined in the Courts Service Annual Report for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39256/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 731. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of exit interviews carried out with members of An Garda Síochána to date in 2025; the issues highlighted in those exit interviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39370/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has yet brought a proposal to Government with the name of a person to be appointed by his as the new Garda Commissioner; if not, when he will be in a position to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 733. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána with 20 years, or more, of service; the number of members of An Garda Síochána with 25 years or more of service; the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have 30 years or more of service, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...