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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: If the ombudsman commission were investigating a garda, would any legal advice he or she had personally received be accessible to the commissioners?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: The next issue was raised already by Deputy Clare Daly and is to do with the Garda continuing to conduct criminal investigations into its own members. The chairperson indicated that she is not informed in such instances. If she hears about such a case on the radio or reads about it in a newspaper, is there anything the commission can do thereafter to investigate the matter, as it probably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: Why would such a case not come to GSOC? Was it because the Garda did not refer it or was operating a separate criminal investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: Does Mr. Fitzgerald consider that a statutory provision is required obliging the Garda to inform the commission automatically of such cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: The last time the witnesses were here, there was an issue about the commission's business plan being implemented and resources not being given. In fairness to the Minister, he stepped up to the plate and delivered in that regard. How many staff now work in the protected disclosures unit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: That is a good idea.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It is cruel that we force the parents of children with autism to campaign and canvass politicians to have their children educated in their local school. We all desire for children to be educated locally but the stress of having a child with autism who cannot be educated locally is severe. The child must be taken out of the catchment area and...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: I wish to raise an important issue arising from the lack of classes for children with autism disorder in the Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W region. All Deputies will be aware that it is extremely demanding to be the parent of a child with autism. It can be very stressful. This becomes particularly acute when the child reaches the age at which he or she must attend national school. We know from...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Courts (18 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to implement proposals for a community court in Dublin; the status of a proposed pilot project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18361/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: I know this is an issue to which the Minister of State is personally committed but I cannot accept, and I do not think anyone else on the committee can accept, that it is a priority for the Government. The Minister of State said it is a priority for the Government but clearly it is not. We know what priorities for the Government look like and how they operate. The Government decided the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: From when?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Dr. Fulton for coming in. Unfortunately, I have not had an opportunity to read her research, although I have read the paper she has presented. How many recovering gambling addicts, or their families, did she have the opportunity to interview?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: I noticed in the paper Dr. Fulton presented that she stated these volunteers came from various socioeconomic backgrounds. I was surprised at that because I would have thought that gambling addiction would affect more people from poorer backgrounds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: Is it correct that all of the people who were interviewed had made the decision to seek support or counselling services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: From Dr. Fulton's assessment of recovering addicts she interviewed, is the biggest motivating factor in their gambling a desire to get money to get out of a hole?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: Dr. Fulton does not think it is just the pursuit of money. It is a hit from being involved in gambling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: I refer to the 22 gamblers and their families that Dr. Fulton interviewed. Did they all come to a shuddering halt when some significant financial event occurred whereby they could not go any further?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)
Jim O'Callaghan: What was the most common form of gambling that those Dr. Fulton interviewed were involved in? Was it horses, online poker or what?