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- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (24 May 2018)
John Lahart: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to reverse competitiveness deficiencies and to make Dublin an attractive location for businesses to locate in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22883/18]
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: I notice the Minister's body language, never mind that of the Ceann Comhairle, which is quite bemused at the events that are taking place. The Minister's body language has varied from a look of disquiet and being discommoded to a look of resignation to a look of being lost, exasperated, exhausted, anguished actually once or twice-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: Stoical-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: Members of the public looking in will be very dissatisfied with this. I agree with what my colleagues said. There is an awful lot of confusion, particularly with regard to ministerial responsibilities. I raised that issue last night. I agree that the Minister should consider withdrawing the Bill and starting again. The latest proposal that arose in the past few days involves using the...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: That was not in here, though.
- European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: I call Deputy Thomas Pringle, who is sharing his time.
- European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Social Behaviour (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: The Minister has not addressed my specific questions in relation to anti-social behaviour orders. I will give him some examples. In my constituency there are multiple low-grade examples of menacing anti-social behaviour. Both people living in local authority estates and people living in some private estates in my constituency want to leave because of the anti-social behaviour of neighbours...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Social Behaviour (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: The Minister asserted that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Social Behaviour (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: 30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the number of children and adults given anti-social behaviour warnings in 2016 and 2017; the number of antisocial behaviour orders sought in the same period by children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22888/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Social Behaviour (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: The Minister concluded the last question by saying that he has made unprecedented levels of resources available to An Garda Síochána this year. I want to raise the question of the number of children and adults who have been given anti-social behaviour orders in 2016 and 2017 and the number of anti-social behaviour orders sought in the same period by children and adults. Will the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Social Behaviour (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: I have got the figures. The metropolitan regions that concern me include Dublin southern and Dublin western. No anti-social behaviour orders were given out in those regions in 2017 or 2018. When the Minister was the Opposition spokesperson for justice, he criticised the ASBO system as being too cumbersome to be effective. At the time, he commented on how the system had spectacularly...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on crime gangs in the Dublin region in 2018 compared to 2017. [22381/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (23 May 2018)
John Lahart: 52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí who have been allocated to Tallaght Garda station; and the rank of each. [22380/18]
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
John Lahart: The public need to be reminded of the point that was made at the beginning of this debate months ago. I ask my colleagues in Sinn Féin to focus on this. We are talking about appointing a quango of 20 people to make between ten and 20 appointments every year. I believe the public will find that really difficult to believe.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
John Lahart: As we know, given it is a point that has been made repeatedly, at the moment the Judicial Appointments Board does this quite effectively and efficiently. The commission will be a quango. The other point that I presume is not lost on our Sinn Féin colleagues, who are not the only republicans in this House, although I do not want to go back over the ground Deputy Ó Snodaigh...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
John Lahart: Hockey.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
John Lahart: That is the Deputy's interpretation.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
John Lahart: I will address a few points made by previous speakers, particularly the point made by Deputy Ó Snodaigh, for whom I have great respect. The Deputy seemed to imply that some judgments by judges have been anti-republican in nature. He should tell me if I am misinterpreting him.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
John Lahart: I remember growing up when extradition hearings were before the courts and when the extradition of people from this jurisdiction to the UK was resisted by the courts in this country. Historically, people in the Twenty-six Counties have had high regard for the manner in which judges kept this State safe during that period of time with the judgments they handed down concerning particular...