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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----to resolve this issue.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is well within the gift of the Seanad to resolve what is essentially a mathematical issue. During the course of these subsequent amendments, we will tidy up anomalies that currently exist and have nothing to do with last night's amendments, but to do with votes won by Deputies Clare Daly, Wallace and O'Callaghan on Committee Stage. They will rectify the inconsistencies that were created...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Deputy Darragh O'Brien is the one who is keeping them in there.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Unlike the recent Fianna Fáil speakers, I agree with Deputy O'Callaghan that the only sensible way forward procedurally is to proceed as the Ceann Comhairle has outlined. The Deputy's colleagues may not agree with him but I think that is the sensible approach. What happened last night was unfortunate. It was a combination of the sequencing of the amendments and then an amendment being...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Information and Communications Technology (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am keen to identify some of the issues highlighted in the review. Six items have not been not implemented at all, six have been partially implemented and four have not been satisfactorily addressed. The Garda Inspectorate has said this is disappointing and has had a negative impact on the services currently delivered to victims. A total of 66% of all sex crimes reported to the Garda...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Information and Communications Technology (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister referred to the information technology aspect of this and obviously that is relevant. However, addressing this also involves resources of time and ability. Again, I make the point that technology is available but it is not being activated because the resources do not exist. Mr. Toland appeared before the committee this morning. He welcomed the protected services bureau...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Information and Communications Technology (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered the updating of Garda information and technology systems with the specific aim of tackling child abuse online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22725/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Information and Communications Technology (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This morning, representatives of the Garda Inspectorate appeared before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality. One of the key points raised in the discussion was a review of recommendations made in a 2012 report dealing with the approach of An Garda Síochána to child sexual abuse cases. The review found that only half the actions the Garda Inspectorate required the Garda to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis na bhfinnéithe as bheith anseo. I apologise but I will have to depart in three or four minutes to take part in an interview so I will have to be very brief. If it is any consolation, as it happens, one of my priority questions for later concerns the updating of Garda IT systems with the specific aim of tackling child abuse online, so I will raise some of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to core Garda units in Cork city Garda division compared to 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22687/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the roll-out of the community CCTV scheme and ensuring schemes can proceed.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22685/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied with the functioning of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, with particular reference to efficiency, timeliness of investigation, work practices and outcomes. [22684/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving gardaí who have completed the CPD2 driving courses; if he is satisfied an adequate number of gardaí have this training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22683/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to ensure that residents in direct provision centres are being advised of their right to vote in local elections in 2019; and the way in which contact with candidates will be facilitated in order that residents can engage fully with the democratic process. [22686/18]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to address some of the points that have been raised by other Deputies. We start from a position of having supported this Bill on Second Stage and Committee Stage. Others did not. Fianna Fáil, for example, did not support it for its own reasons. We have always believed that it is necessary to improve the manner in which judicial appointments are made, to take them out of...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I cannot support amendment No. 6 from Deputy O'Callaghan because it will pave the way for a non-lay majority. I have made that clear to Deputy O'Callaghan previously. I also believe it is too prescriptive in terms of the organisations that can be representative. The need for those lay people to be more representative was discussed at length at Committee Stage. We should try to be more...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (22 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances under which it is possible to obtain a postal vote for elections and referenda. [22199/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (22 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to broadening the rights to have a postal vote and amending the circumstances in which a postal vote is available. [22200/18]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In that context my amendment is likely to be defeated so I will table a slightly adjusted version for the Seanad debate. In the interim, I would like the Minister to consider the matter because I think there is a consensus as to the principle contained in the amendment, whatever about the actual vehicle.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will withdraw it.