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Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I ask his indulgence because we were rushing at the start and skipped over sections. I want not to oppose section 3 but to ask the Minister for clarification on a point. One of the other recommendations in the report of the pre-legislative scrutiny from the justice committee of the previous Dáil was that the definition of "periodical" should be made...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: Yes, the definition of a "periodical". It is a small point but I omitted to talk about it when we were skipping through section 3 and I want to put it on the record in case we table an amendment at a later stage. I do not know if the Minister intended them this way but I interpreted his words to mean he did not agree with this but was bound by collective government, the programme for...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: Did I nearly get a break there?

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: I have just got indigestion. I am blaming the Minister.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Ceann Comhairle is far too efficient for my liking. I will propose the deletion of the entire section. Section 4 relates to the role of the jury in High Court defamation actions. It would be important if the Minister could give us clarity on whether he is planning to proceed with this section in its entirety. I put on the record very strongly that Sinn Féin is opposed to the...

EU Regulations: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for the update. The opt-in before us facilitates the mutual recognition of changing insolvency practices in different European Union member states. As Ireland and other EU member states update, adjust or develop different civil mechanisms, it is generally right that we should continue to facilitate mutual recognition. Sinn Féin will be supporting this opt-in as we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: Both the GRA and the AGSI have raised serious questions about the new Garda operating model. Clearly, that model is undermined by the fact there are far too few gardaí to operate it. That is particularly the case with community gardaí. There were only 700 community gardaí at the end of last year compared with over 1,100 at the end of 2011. The Garda has raised serious...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: It is cloud cuckoo land stuff.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: What momentum?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of any reviews carried out, sought or received by her Department, into contracts for international protection accommodation centres in the past five years; if any value for money reviews were carried out into contracts for the provision of IPAS centres in the past five years; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given the HIQA overview report on the first year of inspecting international protection accommodation centres, published on 5 March 2025, found that 56% of centres inspected did not have effective governance and management arrangements in place, had poor, or no, reporting systems, and that 35% of staff across...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average turnaround time for a passport renewal, by paper and online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19942/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 2 of 9 April and 238 of 1 April 2025, if the European Commission requires the permission of the European Council to commission a review as to Israels compliance with its human rights obligations under the EU Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 3 and 5 of 9 April 2025, if the referenced United Nations General Assembly resolution, co-sponsored by Ireland, which seeks to implement the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, distinguished between the trade of goods and services with Israels illegal settlements in Palestine; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 58, 3 and 5 of 9 April 2025, if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance regarding Irelands €9.4 million investments via the ISIF in eight companies, given the outline he provided of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Postcode System (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 257. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new Eircodes sought within each county in respect of buildings for which another Eircode already existed in each of the years 2020-2024 and to-date 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19194/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Regulatory Bodies (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 270. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to review the efficacy of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) or if he intends to bring forward legislation that will enhance any powers of the CRU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19494/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 353. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 18 February 2025, if the Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) record the addresses of members of the RDF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20895/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Driver Licences (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 467. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 324 of 1 April 2025, the criteria upon which applications to exchange driving licences from other states are adjudicated as to whether they are accepted or rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20158/25]