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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of establishing a new Garda youth diversion project; and the estimated full year running cost of any such a project. [25702/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of reducing free civil legal aid by €70, €80, €90 and €100 respectively in tabular form. [25703/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year running cost of the Courts Service. [25704/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of forensic accountants dedicated to tackling white-collar crime. [25707/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of employing five forensic accountants. [25708/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Electronic Tagging (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of electronic tagging and monitoring thereafter of those convicted of rape, child sexual abuse and similar violent offences that are resident here. [25709/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision Payments (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of doubling the payments made to those that are resident in direct provision. [25706/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (12 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the local authority tenant purchase scheme beyond three bedroom houses; if two bedroom properties and larger houses will be included; and if there is discretion allowed for local authorities. [24538/18]

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I support the Minister of State's remarks regarding Cork. If he intends to make the Dáil more family-friendly for Cork Deputies by moving the premises to Cork, I will be happy to support any such initiative to that effect. I thank Deputies Rabbitte and Smyth for giving us an opportunity to speak on this Bill and on this topic. We will be happy to support the passage of this Bill. We...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: All the Minister needs to know is that it is bad.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On Deputy Jim O'Callaghan's point, I think it would have preceded devolution in the areas of policing and justice in 2006; therefore, it would probably have been Westminster legislation. However, in Scotland I believe there is a 50:50 lay and legal-judicial balance. In England and Wales it is weighted equally between lay and judicial members, with two legal members. That is the argument...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I disagree with almost everything that Deputy O'Callaghan said except for the point about inconsistency. I do not see any reason to support the amendment but I do not agree with Deputy O'Callaghan that the commission creates problems in terms of the quality of the people that will be appointed. Some of the commentary around lay members of the commission is unhelpful and ignores the reality...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will make a few observations. I am open to considering amendment No. 92 further, but my sense is that it might be unconstitutional to restrict the Government to "only" the names provided to it. Given the next amendment that we will deal with, the approach being taken is to create an infrastructure in which, in terms of perception and practice, it is almost impossible - it is not...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: A number of references were made to amendment No. 87, which is not part of this grouping, but some of the references may be relevant depending on how that amendment fares. I had my mind made up about amendment No. 87 and I will not be supporting it. It is not consistent with the philosophy underlining the Bill. I find it difficult to understand the logic behind it. I am speaking to the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On foot of what Deputy O'Callaghan said, my understanding is that it would still be 12 years' experience overall but that there must be four years' continuous experience. That is the point I was making in reference to those who might have taken a leave of absence for maternity leave etc. It is restrictive enough. Not only is 12 years' experience required but also, within that, four...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 73:In page 23, to delete line 37, and in page 24, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following:"(3) Subsection (1) shall only apply to a legal academic who has qualified as a barrister or solicitor and subsequent subsections of this section, in so far as they relate to a person who is referred to in them as a 'head of a faculty' or 'head of another faculty', shall...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is now almost seven years since Shane O'Farrell was killed at the side of the road in County Monaghan. It is fair to say there was a failure by many of the agencies of the law and it is not unfair to say that the justice system as a whole in the State categorically failed the family of Shane O'Farrell. The man responsible should not have been at liberty. He was the subject of 40...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The people of Ringaskiddy and Cork Lower Harbour, as the Tánaiste knows, will be absolutely devastated by today's news. They have been fighting against this incinerator for well over a decade. It is wrong that three attempts were allowed to get to this point. It has been suggested in the last while by the former Senator, Dan Boyle, and my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome this section and the approach that is being taken. It fits with what Sinn Féin has been arguing for quite some time, that is, that we need to move from relying on administrative sanctions alone. Those days are gone. Good riddance to them. This section chimes with what Deputy Doherty's legislation identified. I refer to the lacuna or loophole that had been acknowledged by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is the Minister of State aware of any proposals for Government legislation?