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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Michael McNamara: I appreciate that, but some local authorities take the infrastructure of their piers more seriously than others. I suppose this is a matter for local authorities but can anything be done to fund the preplanning work? I imagine Country Clare is not unique in this regard and there are several projects that could do with works but the local communities cannot get them to the stage where they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Michael McNamara: Yes, I was referring to aquaculture and shellfish licensing.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (4 Jun 2014)

Michael McNamara: 159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason election canvassers are prohibited from canvassing at direct provision centres around the country; if she will outline any domestic legal provisions and any international legal obligations in that regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23886/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Purcell for his patience and I apologise again for asking him to repeat what he said earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I appreciate that Mr. Purcell dealt with this earlier and has very kindly dealt with it again just now. He said that the letter of 18 December was not furnished to the Minister but specifically, was the letter of 26 February furnished to the Minister at the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I do not know how Departments operate and this meeting is providing an interesting insight into that. Is it normal that such letters would not be furnished to a Minister in the context of the volume of correspondence coming through? Is it normal that letters from the Attorney General or the Garda Commissioner would not be furnished to the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: Mr. Purcell mentioned oral briefings which is interesting because Mr. Guerin's report focuses very much on written evidence, when letters and written files were furnished and so forth. Is much of this dealt with by way of oral discussion and briefings rather than extensively written instructions, correspondence and so forth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: In view of that context and the fact that Mr. Purcell has repeatedly reiterated that the Department and the former Minister were dealing with Sergeant McCabe's allegations at the same time as the fixed charge and penalty points issue, does he think it is accurate to state that the Department or the former Minister did not take seriously Sergeant McCabe's allegations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I appreciate that and I apologise to Mr. Purcell. In the ordinary course of events I would have been present throughout the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I try to attend committee meetings in their entirety. There was a parliamentary party meeting today of an exceptional nature-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: -----but that is not of Mr. Purcell's making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: The report refers to an impasse arising out of the correspondence being resolved by advice from the Office of the Attorney General. Why was that advice obtained? If Mr. Purcell dealt with that earlier, there is no need to answer but if he has not, I would appreciate an answer. Second, there is a reference to the advice obtained in paragraph 19.89. At the same time Mr. Guerin says that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I am sorry, he saw the advices but not the copy of the letter seeking the advices. Why were those advices sought in the first instance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: Is that an error in Mr. Guerin's report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: Is Mr. Purcell in a position to put on the record the entire letter received from the Attorney General's office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: So the answer is "No", Mr. Purcell is not in a position to put the entire-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: Presumably it will be published then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: Was the Minister immediately furnished with the letter of 18 December 2013 from the Attorney General's office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: Mr. Purcell said the Minister was not immediately furnished with the letter of 18 December. When was he furnished with the letter?