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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: The use of therapeutic communities within the Irish Prison Service has been discussed at a policy level for quite some time. Coolmine Therapeutic Community has a very successful recovery approach which is sometimes followed during the period of a prisoner's sentence in co-operation with the Irish Prison Service. Has a political decision been made to fund therapeutic communities which work...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: What I was specifically referring to was the establishment of a pilot of a therapeutic community in a prison - in fact, in a wing of a prison where it would be run like a therapeutic community and run by prisoners. That model works really well in the UK and in other countries. There is a fantastic outcome for prisoners, for the general population and for communities but we are not doing...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: The Taoiseach regularly visits Coolmine therapeutic centre in our constituency in Dublin West. He is very much in favour of therapeutic communities and I think the Minister should talk to him. I am not talking about the general prison model, but therapeutic communities work well in the UK and in other countries. I tabled parliamentary questions on this subject so I am surprised the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: I have actually. I have written many times to the Minister.

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: I am pleased to be able to contribute this topic as my party's spokesperson on defence. As my colleague, Deputy Collins, said, Fianna Fáil is not supporting this Bill, as we are concerned it may impact on our ability to take part in vital peacekeeping missions around the world. As a country that pursues military neutrality, Ireland has a long history and tradition of peacekeeping. As...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Correspondence (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will respond to correspondence previously sent (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16496/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a purchase and planning application by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16044/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Development (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 297. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the work she has undertaken to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence on employment and the workforce in the services industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16323/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Development (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the work she has undertaken with regard to the way in which Ireland plans to change secondary and tertiary education in order to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence on the services industry job market in the future in view of the fact changes will only show impacts in the medium to long term; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for persons with dyspraxia for occupational therapy services in Dublin 15, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16243/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of Roselawn health centre, Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16244/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: I thank the witnesses for being here. Like Senator Conway said, perhaps the commission would provide a specific email or phone line that would allow public representatives to submit something that restricted our ability to do our representative function. If that were communicated to us, it would be a helpful way for the commission to go directly to whomever the body is or the person who is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: Of the 15 complaints, seven are against Facebook and two are against WhatsApp, which is a company under the ownership and jurisdiction of Facebook. As such, that is nine out of 15. When will fines issue or decisions be made? In France, decisions have been made under EU privacy rules and a fine has been issued to Google of €50 million. Google has its headquarters here. When will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: Paragraph 7 of the opening statement referred to changes to the data protection legal framework and pointed out that the DPC has no regulatory competence in law for many contemporary issues, including fake news, online context moderation and Internet safety. Has the commission a view on a digital safety commissioner and on the debate on fake news? Has it examined what has happened elsewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: How is the digital age of consent being implemented? Have many complaints been made about breaches of the legislation? Has there been any investigation into breaches of the legislation? Are the resources allocated to the Data Protection Commission commensurate with the commission's role in the context of multinational companies? The Data Protection Commissioner, Ms Dixon, has outlined...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (2 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: 72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of former Defence Forces members that previously left the Defence Forces that have returned to the Defence Forces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15361/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (28 Mar 2019)

Jack Chambers: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the historic gates to the Phoenix Park removed in summer 2018; when the original gates will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14675/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Definitions (28 Mar 2019)

Jack Chambers: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to recognise a condition (details supplied) as a disability; if his attention has been drawn to the distress and suffering caused as a result of the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14535/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (28 Mar 2019)

Jack Chambers: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new technologies that have yet to be approved by the NTPF for tackling waiting lists; the bodies that have made the applications for the use of technologies; when a technology (details supplied) is likely to be approved by the NTPF for use on patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14543/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration (28 Mar 2019)

Jack Chambers: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 447 of 5 March 2019 and 201 and 267 of 6 March 2019, the details of the research he has requested the Road Safety Authority to carry out; the scope of this research; the timeline for the completion of the process; if the Road Safety Authority or his Department plans to engage in public...