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Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 46, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "21.—Where documents, information, observations or submissions are received under paragraphs 16 to 20, other than from the applicant for or holder of a licence, which are not by virtue of those provisions required to be transmitted for observations or submissions to such applicant or holder, a copy...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I thank the Minister and his staff and I welcome the legislation. I hope the Minister will monitor its implementation in consultation with the authority and that it will be amended if that proves to be necessary.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I ask the Minister for Education and Science to consider fast tracking the opening of the Adamstown secondary school to cater for the growing number of children in Lucan primary schools. The land in question was rezoned in 1998 and has not yet been built on. When the local authority drew up the first strategic development zone plan for the area it set aside a site for a secondary school. More...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I am unhappy with the response from the Minister for Education and Science. It is totally at odds with the intentions of the framers and adopters of the Adamstown strategic development zone plan who intended that the school would cater for the present population of Lucan and then for the people from Adamstown as it developed. It is typical of the Department of Education and Science to be...

Seanad: High Level of Alcohol Consumption by Young People: Statements. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I will raise my point as quickly as I can. One measure the Minister introduced was to ban children from public houses and hotel pubs after 9 p.m. although that was not necessary to deal with the problem of young people drinking. I have no relationship of any kind with hoteliers, apart from going to hotels occasionally on holidays, as I did in Castlebar for St. Patrick's Day. The Irish Hotels...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, to delete lines 29 to 32 and substitute the following: "(7) At least 40 per cent of the members of the Authority (and of the Appeal Board or an advisory committee) shall be men and at least 40 per cent shall be women.". The Labour Party has tabled this amendment as we consider subsection (7) to be too weak. I am not sure what its effect would be if the...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I thank the Minister for his statistics. If there is a problem with NGOs, surely this would give him the power to say to them that they must be balanced. The Bill should be definitive in that regard. How many State boards comprise more than 60% of women or have the freedom to have that percentage?

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 15, to delete lines 13 to 17.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: The reason it is proposed to delete subsection (5) is that it may be constitutionally dubious, first, because of the reversal of the burden of proof contemplated by the section in a criminal matter and, second, because of the recent High Court ruling in the bin tax case regarding the need to show that contempt was committed intentionally. The wording states that something may be treated for...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 18: In page 46, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following paragraph: "21.—Where documents, information, observations or submissions are received under paragraphs 16 to 20, other than from the applicant for or holder of a licence, which are not by virtue of those provisions required to be transmitted for observations or submissions to such applicant or holder, a...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: What does the Minister of State say about the issue of fairness? The licence holder or applicant could lose out because of something submitted about them, but will not have a final opportunity to respond to it. That would not be fair, given that the consequences are significant.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I apologise for being late this morning. Unfortunately I missed my amendments. I hope I might be allowed to re-submit them on Report Stage. I understand that in order to do that I must mention them at this Stage. It is important that I get the opportunity to re-submit them. They relate to the compilation of the authority. There is also an amendment on contempt of court and on the Freedom of...

Seanad: Transfer of Execution of Sentences Bill 2003: Second Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I broadly welcome the Bill, but I have some reservations. It is positive in that it ties in with the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act 1995. It is right to offer people the chance to serve the balance of their sentence closer to home. I recognise there is a difference here as the Bill deals with people who flee a jurisdiction. I remember — this was mentioned when the Minister for Justice,...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Second Stage. (25 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome this legislation because, as the Minister and other Senators have said, there is rising public concern about the private security industry and some of the individuals involved in it. Bouncers, private investigators and persons engaged in surveillance have operated in an unregulated fashion, making the industry particularly attractive to criminal elements. It is important this...

Seanad: Agency for the Irish Abroad: Motion. (24 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome this debate because it reminds us that many of us have experience of emigration. It was only when I was thinking about this debate that I remembered that I am the daughter of Irish emigrants. My parents emigrated from Mayo after getting married in the 1960s and I spent the first five years of my life in England. They returned in the 1970s. Then, 20 years later, my sister and my...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (23 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I thank the Minister for her presentation earlier, and I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley, to the House. The Minister said there was a need for foreign workers, who are welcome, but the habitual residence test sends out a different message. I wonder if such a test is required. Perhaps the Government should have waited to see what measures were actually required to address...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (23 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: When the Government wants, it can do so. I welcome the provision for payments after death. I dealt with a constituent recently who lost out on the six week payment covered by the provision. Under the legislation, she will not be paid retrospectively and I ask that such people should receive the payment retrospectively. There was an anomaly in the previous legislation which resulted in unfair...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I also wish to condemn the killing yesterday of Sheikh Yassin which, apart from endangering the lives of Israeli citizens, maintains the never-ending cycle of violence which leads to loss of life on both sides. Although the House was not sitting at the time, it is important also to condemn the killing of ten people last week by two Palestinian suicide bombers in the city of Ashdod. Senator...