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An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Colscaradh) 2016: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016: Second Stage (6 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: That was close.

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: On behalf of the Tánaiste and the Government as a whole, I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I congratulate Deputies Catherine Martin and Eamon Ryan for bringing this important motion before the House. I have been a Member of the House for 20 years and I do not think that this matter has come up before in this format. Perhaps Deputy Penrose, who has been here for...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I therefore wanted to declare that. In fact, I am told that it was a miracle I survived.

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: Yes and I am here to tell the tale. In the late 1950s my parents went through a time wondering whether or not I would survive, so I can empathise with that. I heard the stories that were told and I know it affects many people on all sides. The Government is acutely aware of the different pressures that families with pre-term babies face and believes that the State can and should support...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I have a brief opening statement, if the Chairman will allow it. In setting out to discuss the Government amendments being proposed at today's meeting, members might like to have a sense of how and why those amendments have come about. Section 2 of the Bill as initiated deals with the amendment of section 1 of the Courts (No. 3) Act, 1986, which is the primary purpose of the Bill. ...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, to delete lines 15 to 32, and in page 4, to delete lines 1 to 8 and substitute the following:“ “(2A) (a) The issue of a summons by electronic means in accordance with subsection (2) shall be deemed to have been effected where the appropriate office transmits by electronic means all of the information necessary to create the summons in an...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I do not quite follow the question. This is a robust and integrated measure. The systems have been tested. The purpose is to give it legal sanction. I am unsure if I have followed the question completely or what is meant by it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: The summons is being generated automatically but the data still has to be put in to the system by the relevant member. People will be involved in putting the data into the system initially. The situation raised by Deputy O'Callaghan should not arise again. Those particular issues have been highlighted. The system has been tested and that should not happen anymore. Obviously, they...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: It is one thing for a summons to be issued. Part of the problem is the question of whether the summons was received by the person at the other end. What if a person claims they never got it? There were anomalies. The third payment option means that when the second notice arrives, a third payment option is available. I understand up to 80% of the first notices are being paid. An Post...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: The third payment option interacts with the summons and the fixed charge notice system. The two agencies that manage the systems are the Courts Service and An Garda Síochána. At present a fixed charge notice is issued by an outsourced print service provider on behalf of An Garda Síochána. Summonses are issued by the Courts Service following an application from An Garda...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 2:In page 4, to delete lines 10 to 16 and substitute the following:“ “(4A) This section shall not operate to prevent—(a) a transmission under subsection (2) (including one that effects the issue of a summons in accordance with subsection (2A)) containing information relating to different summonses, or (b) a transmission under subsection (4)...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, to delete lines 17 and 18 and substitute the following:“(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (8):“(8A) Where the issue of a summons is effected in accordance with subsection (2A), references in any enactment relating to the service of summonses shall—(a) in the case of references to an original summons...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 4:In page 4, to delete lines 19 to 24 and substitute the following:“ (d) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (9):“(9) In any proceedings it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is shown, that —(a) a document purporting to be a summons is a summons duly applied for and issued, and (b) the date specified in the summons as...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 5:In page 4, to delete lines 25 to 37, and in page 5, to delete lines 1 to 3. This proposes the deletion from the Bill as initiated of amendments that had been proposed to be made to subsections (10) and (14) of section 1 of the Courts (No. 3) Act 1986. Subsection (10) of the 1986 Act provides that in the case of a summons that has been issued by electronic means, a...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 6:In page 5, lines 6 to 12, to delete all words from and including “Notwithstanding” in line 6 down to and including line 12 and substitute the following:"Notwithstanding any other enactment or rule of law, a summons may be issued under and in accordance with the Act of 1986 in respect of a fixed charge offence within the meaning of Part 3 (amended by Part 5...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I indicated earlier that this amendment would remove that requirement.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: Exactly. It is being looked at in the context of a miscellaneous provisions Bill as well. This amendment would remove the requirement as it would not fit in the more streamlined system.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: It would be exactly the same. Everyone would be treated equally.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I thank the committee for facilitating this session today. We are inserting four new sections into the Bill, all of which are technical in nature. The amendments concern the application of Section 5A - questioning of persons detained under section 4 not generally permitted pending access to legal advice - of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, as inserted by Section 9(a) of the Criminal Justice...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

David Stanton: I move amendment No.1:In page 3, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Amendment of Criminal Justice Act 1984 2. Section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 is amended in subsection (1) by the substitution of “Sections 5, 5A, 6A” for “Sections 5, 6A”.”. I have already spoken to these amendments. As I said already, these amendments...