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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy Wallace actually thought amendment No. 124 was his amendment. However, Deputy Wallace's amendment, which appears just after Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 124, actually does not have a number. It relates to the next section but Deputy Wallace thought amendment No. 124 was his.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: It is a different section.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Is that not an amendment though?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I echo some of the points made by Deputy Ó Laoghaire. His amendment is stronger than mine in some ways but both seek to achieve the same thing. In respect of amendment No. 19 and the debate regarding the term "feasible and practicable", the issue here that, under paragraphs (a) and (b), there is an objective to have equal numbers of men and women and to reflect diversity. However, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I have a couple of comments and then a few questions. I welcome that we are finally opting into the reception conditions directive. However, we should point out that it was published 15 years ago. It was beefed up five years ago. Asylum seekers used to have the right to work in this State. It was taken away from them 20 years ago. For the guts of those 20 years we have been an outlier...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I will ask a few questions and see how we go. The statement says that member states that have opted in can require the applicant to contribute towards the cost of accommodation, and so on, if the applicant has sufficient resources, including if they have been working for a reasonable period. The directive seems to set the bar of sufficiency as being to "enable their subsistence". I have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I refer to the cost of the work permits on the temporary scheme, the one that will be set up until the directive is in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: Is there a list of the excluded categories? Are they being developed or looked at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: That is a little vague. I do not want to hog the time and I know that other Deputies want to speak. I refer to the implementation group and our submissions to it. We all have a different view of what is reasonable and what is not. Is there a timescale for that? I am sure the committee would like to have an input into that, as would other groups.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: The entire process seems to be deliberately confusing which is not a good development, but the impression is being given that nine months is the maximum amount of time anyone will have to wait before being able to access the labour market because the first instance decision will be made within that period and if he or she is allowed to stay, he or she will be able to work or, if not, he or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: That was precisely my point. I believe they should be and would like the issue to be examined. The Minister has drawn up a list and said if someone is a forensic scientist, a nurse, a vet, a doctor and so on, he or she can apply for a job, but if he or she is a chef, an ordinary Joe or whatever else, he or she will not be able to apply for a job. That is an exclusion list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: That is the problem. We do not have the list and have not seen it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: I used chefs as an example. If there is a shortage of chefs, presumably the Government will include them in the list, but my point is that that is what we are doing. We are allowing people to work in areas in which there is a shortage of people with a particular skill set, but many people will be excluded from applying for more ordinary jobs where a particular skill set is not required....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the discriminatory nature of the eligibility rules for obtaining a State pension (contributory) and its affect in disadvantaging women that in the past chose to take time out of the jobs market in order to raise families. [1910/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (17 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department will take in conjunction with the broadband task force to address gaps in the service affecting some homes in rural areas in which telephone lines are not running through a fibre cabinet and are therefore experiencing slow connection speeds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1678/18]

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: At December's meeting the assembled Ministers discussed migration. Yet again, we are told the discussion was based on a note circulated by President Tusk which focused on "preventing mass arrivals at external borders and tackling the root causes of the migration crisis". In the short time available to me, I would like to raise two subjects that circle the questions of asylum and migration...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (16 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 58. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department will review dog licensing and breeding legislation in view of a similar review now under way in the UK to provide tighter restrictions for breeding, living conditions and the sale of pups. [1677/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

Clare Daly: 108. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 12 December 2017, if the issue of supplementary pension changes for post-2013 recruits was brought to the attention of the Defence Forces representative associations during the negotiations on the single pension scheme Act of 2012; and if not, if the negotiations centred solely on the career average...