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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I do not accept that the amendment would complicate the work of the Referendum Commission. It seeks to go further than what is there at the moment. If we are trying to keep within the spirit of the Bill, the commission should be mandated to go the extra yard. None of its work up to now has sought to properly communicate the message to people with disabilities and ensure that voting is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I support the amendment. What is the remedy if these targets are missed? There is obviously a macro incentive for the public service to increase the percentage in employment but what is the remedy for a person with a disability on a micro level? At the organisational level of Department or State agency, they will displace the macro incentive to someone else, as it is a general percentage....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: If the amendment were pressed and accepted, it would probably overly complicate and potentially delay the Bill. I have not seen any amendment passed with an open-ended insertion of "adequate funding and resources", which would be impossible to interpret. While the Deputy's aim in introducing the amendment is correct, I do not think the Bill would pass with this amendment in it. It would...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 12: In page 7, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(iii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (o): “(p) to act as the independent mechanism to promote, protect and monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities done at New York on 13 December 2006.”.”. This...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I am not accepting that. This is a case of déjà vu. I am going to press the amendment now. If the Minister of State needs to get legal advice on it, he can provide it to us on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I think it is important that we amend the Bill now.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: As with an earlier point, amendment No. 13 making it open-ended would complicate and delay the legislation. There is a proposal to mandate a committee to receive necessary funds but I have never seen an amendment with that type of working language successfully pass through the Oireachtas. Perhaps Deputy Ó Laoghaire might reword the amendment on Report Stage. I do not disagree with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: Page 24 of the programme for Government states that the Government will request NAMA to review its business plans to encourage it to be more ambitious in the area of housing delivery. It is something of which NAMA always reminds us in its annual report. Last week a receiver notified residents in Riverwood Hall in Carpenterstown that they would be evicted, that is, nine households and up to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he plans to award medals recommended for 29 men for bravery in action by a person (details supplied) to the veterans still living and posthumously to those deceased who served during the siege of Jadotville in 1961; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3988/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns of parents of children and staff at a school (details supplied) regarding accommodation for children enrolling in the school in September 2019; the measures that will be put in place to address these concerns; if the forward planning section of his Department will engage with the school in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS general practitioners in Dublin 15; the number of GMS general practitioners per CHO group nationally; the breakdown by population in this regard; the number of public health nurses in each CHO group nationally; the breakdown by population in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4071/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks Closures (24 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 69. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount paid to private security firms for the provision of security services by the Defence Forces in each of the past three years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3504/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Meetings (24 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 70. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of meetings his Department had with the representative associations regarding the working time directive 2003; the dates on which they occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (24 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the joint submission to the Public Service Pay Commission from the Department of Defence and military authorities underwent changes after it was sent to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; if so, the nature of the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3532/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 25 September 2018, the reason a person (details supplied) has not received the third stage of the part unwinding of the public service pension reduction, PSPR, as part of pension restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a risk assessment on the safety of the public was conducted prior to the operation of the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2612/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the precautions undertaken by his Department and the OPW to safeguard the public and to alert the public that firearms would be used as part of the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2613/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if An Garda Siochána was informed in advance of the operation of the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW and that firearms would be discharged as part of the operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2614/19]