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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to bring forward legislation to respond to the increasing threat posed by knife crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if in the context of the need to display zero tolerance towards violence against women, she is prepared to introduce new legislation to combat knife crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider amending the bail laws in order that there will be a presumption against the grant of bail for a person accused of violent assault who already has convictions for violent assault in order to strengthen the protection of women from violent assaults; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the gambling regulation Bill will be introduced in the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the gambling regulation Bill will impose a requirement on gambling platforms and providers to assess whether gamblers can afford the bets they are placing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is proposed to include within the gambling regulation Bill a requirement that the regulator will have a single customer view that will be linked to all gambling operators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the gambling regulation Bill will require the regulator to ensure that problem gambling can be tackled through a single customer view and an assessment of affordability on the part of gamblers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6187/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. This is an interesting topic and it benefits from having this lengthy deliberative assessment of it as opposed to just a quick debate in the Dáil where a debate can sometimes be a bit superficial. I have questions for Dr. Muldoon based on what he said. Obviously, there are many parents who want their children to go to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is the child who is being excluded who is being subjected to discrimination and disadvantage as opposed to some huge advantage being conferred on the child who gets in. Would Dr. Muldoon agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Ms Lynch said that fairness and equity are principles that must be upheld. Is it her view that this specific statutory provision violates those principles?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: In Ms Fanning's last answer to the Chairman, she highlighted a point that is repeatedly made to me in the months of February, March and April by the parents of a first child generally who has not got into a school. It puts huge stress on those parents. Invariably, once September comes, it seems to be sorted out. It seems to put parents through an unnecessary amount of stress. Does Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is something that needs addressing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: In regard to the John Stokes case, if this rule is removed tomorrow, admissions to schools will not become this remarkable system of fairness overnight. It is still going to involve choice. On what basis does Dr. Doyle think schools should be required to choose their students? Should it be principally on the basis of locality? As Deputy Conway-Walsh said, I am conscious that in England...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I know Dr. Doyle's views on this specific provision but to what extent should the State be involved by way of legislation in specifying how schools should approach admissions? We have legislation but is Dr. Doyle suggesting that we need to go further?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: That is the point that was replicated last week. If the provision is removed, there will still be children whose parents went there going to a school. There is nothing wrong with that per se. What is wrong is if there is a statutory provision which excludes certain children because of the connection that another child has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: This committee is also looking at leaving certificate reform at the same time. There are great criticisms that could be made of the leaving certificate and CAO. If, for example, we had a system whereby 25% of places for medicine were limited to children of doctors, would that not be problematic?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commemorative Events (3 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yesterday marked the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. It is an event that deserves to be commemorated and recognised by this State. Over the past ten years, we have engaged with a lot of commemoration in terms of the important historic political events we have commemorated, including the commemoration of the Irish involvement in the First World War, the Easter Rising...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commemorative Events (3 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I am pleased to hear that progress is being made in terms of the commemoration of Ulysses. I welcome the detail contained with the reply. It is fair to say James Joyce had a difficult relationship with Ireland. He probably would be surprised that, in a national Parliament, Members are standing up to commemorate the publication of his great book...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not think it is possible to overstate the impact and importance universities have had on the course of Irish history. We all know the role that was played by Trinity College over the centuries but there was also the establishment of the Catholic University of Ireland in the 19th century. That became the Royal University of Ireland and subsequently the National University of Ireland,...