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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (25 May 2017)

Clare Daly: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make a statement regarding his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 10 May 2017, when he stated that he would be happy to request that the IAA meet with community representatives from an organisation (details supplied) in the context that he had previously stated on 21 March 2017 that such an action would be undertaken...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: The committee has finished its deliberations on penal reform and we have a packed agenda so there is no way we will be able to squeeze this in. We are putting the onus back on the Minister and we do not know who the Minister will be. I accept the bona fides of the current Minister but we need this to be in the lap of the Department of Justice and Equality from tonight, because it is long...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: These supports are beyond overdue. It is precisely because we only have a pilot scheme in regard to youth services and nothing for adults that we need to fast-track these proposals or at least give this issue the priority it has not been given up to now. In putting what is proposed into the legislation we would be beefing up the onus on the Minister to look at this area, cost the supports...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 9:In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“10.The Act of 1997 is amended by the insertion of the following after section 11:“11A.The Minister shall, within 12 months of the enactment of this Bill, make costed recommendations to Government in regard to providing bail supports in the State, to include but not limited to bail information...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: That point has been adequately addressed. There is no delay involved whatsoever. The issue is black and white. In terms of the Minister's point about issues arising years later and that one could never get the information, the information is supposed to be kept so there should not be any difficulty in accessing it. If it is digitally recorded in particular then it will be accessible. It...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: There are contradictions in what both the Tánaiste and Deputy O'Callaghan have said. On the one hand they are making the argument that this will be an enormous burden of work for our hard-pressed District Court judges who are flat-out already; I accept that they are. However, on the other hand, they then say that the information is there anyway and people can get it. If it is there...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 6:In page 8, to delete lines 3 to 7 and substitute the following: “ “9B.(a) Where an application for bail is made or renewed by a person charged with an offence, a court shall give reasons for its decision to grant or refuse the application including reasons for a decision to impose or vary any conditions to be contained in the recognisance to be entered...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“8. The Act of 1997 is amended in section 6D by the insertion of “subject to the condition that all contracts for the performance of monitoring duties entered into with private providers by the Government after the commencement date of this Act shall stipulate that such activities shall be...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I remind Deputy Mattie McGrath that the people we are discussing are on bail and have not been convicted of an offence, which is the reason they are on bail. The Deputy has them convicted and hanged. I also remind him that the cost of incarceration is a considerable burden on taxpayers. If we can get this system working and keep people out of prison, we will all be better off, even...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: There are a couple of key arguments to respond to in what the Minister has said. The first is the conditions are too cumbersome and it will mean electronic monitoring will not be selected and therefore it defeats the purpose. I do not accept that. The Judiciary is more than capable of balancing the requirements and the conditions I have put forward. In many ways, it could be argued the...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, to delete line 35. This amendment removes paragraph (a)(i) of the new subsection (10) the Government wishes to insert into section 6 of the Act of 1997. If the paragraph remains in the Bill, it would introduce a new power of arrest without warrant by the Garda if a member was of the opinion that someone on bail was about to contravene any of his or her bail...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: For the Minister's scenario to work, the garda would have to be present for starters, so we are talking about quite limited circumstances. My point is that it is far too vague. If a garda was present and thought that a person was in danger, he or she would have powers under existing legislation to make an arrest. For instance, were a garda to tell someone to run along and move it, that is,...

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: We obviously disagree on that. I stand by my earlier comment.

Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “8. Section 6B of the Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (1):“(1A) In imposing the conditions in subparagraphs (i) to (iii) of section 6B the Court shall have regard to the following:(a) that the type and modalities of tagging are proportionate to the...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I salute the efforts of Deputy Connolly in strongly and determinedly pushing this issue. It is quite incredible that Deputy Bruton is the third Minister for Education and Skills to whom we have had to highlight the shortcomings of Caranua. The scheme as it presently operates is re-traumatising people. We have to put a stop to this tonight. When we raise issues and concerns in here, there...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:" "parole candidate” includes any individual who has made an application for parole;". This provides the definition of a parole candidate. It is probably radical enough, as it would be a change in the situation whereby it would be defined as somebody who has made an application for parole with no...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: That is good. We will agree for now and see what happens later. That is great.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 3:In page 5, line 24, to delete "section 22" and substitute "section 22(1) and (2)". This bundle of amendments would empower the parole board to make recommendations regarding sentence management and transfer to open prisons. Deputy O'Callaghan's amendments seek to do the same thing, perhaps in a slightly different way. His amendments are more simple, with just a line...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I accept the point regarding amendment No. 3 being unnecessary, and there is no problem withdrawing it. It is probably the case that amendment No. 6 rather than amendment No. 5 should be accepted. I will not worry about that. However, amendments Nos. 72 and 73 are linked and their purpose is to precisely to overcome the issue of the board being involved in the day to day management of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I am not sure on that but we can look at it later as well.