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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: These are the rulings of the Chair, not mine personally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: Deputy Mac Lochlainn was rapporteur in the production that report, which has been laid before both Houses, and we expect there will be a debate on it in both Houses in due course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: Before we move on from that issue, if the commission is producing some research in November, it might be an idea to invite Ms Logan back to the committee to debate the research with us and to inform us of what she comes up with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: Apologies for interrupting the Deputy's questioning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: In her former role, Ms Logan reached out to children and communities in an extremely positive and proactive way. It will be important that this continues to be the case in the context of her new role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: It will also be important to disseminate information with regard to the role of the commission, particularly so that citizens will be aware of what it will be doing and discover how they can learn from, achieve and benefit from its valuable work. I call Senator Zappone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: We have received a request from the members of the press to release Ms Logan's opening statement. Would that be in order?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: I thank Ms Logan for her interesting contribution. The commissioners engaged with us on their appointments as there was an issue relating to how they were to be appointed. It was very important that the Executive be seen to be at arm's length in the process. This all-party Oireachtas committee undertook to meet the commissioners designate and we were very impressed with them - at the time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have an engagement with Ms Emily Logan, who is the chief commissioner-designate of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. On behalf of the joint committee, I thank Ms Logan for her attendance here today. I will invite Ms Logan to make a brief opening statement, which will be followed by a question and answer session with members....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: I thank Professor Barrett for giving of his time today and providing his help and advice to the committee. I expect we will engage with him again on these very important and interesting issues. The system is evolving and developing as we speak. I note, for example, that national parliaments are to have much more of a say in what is happening at European level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: That will mean more challenges and a greater workload for us. I thank Professor Barrett again for his engagement with the committee. We will suspend until 2 p.m. when we will meet with Ms Emily Logan, chief commissioner designate of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: As it happens, just this morning we received a communique on foot of an inter-parliamentary meeting that was held on September 17 in Paris, which I will circulate. It relates to a "common declaration on the proposal for a Council regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office ... signed in their own name by members of national parliaments of the European Union"....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: Even for us to attend that meeting proved difficult because of resources.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: We have to very careful about the resources we have because we are very limited in that. The other issue is that our Parliament is developing a committee system now much more than it had in the past. Other parliaments are way ahead of us on this. The parliaments themselves and jurisdictions have far more say and authority than we have here, though it is changing slowly. I am not sure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: It is interesting that this document emanating from the meeting in Paris suggests that the EPPO should not have exclusive competence but shared competence with the judicial authorities of the member states, which is what we were advocating ourselves from this end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: The French National Assembly seemed to initiate this particular meeting in France because they are especially interested in it, I understand. A large number of members from the French National Assembly signed it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal to Establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: The purpose of this part of the meeting is to discuss the proposal by the European Commission to establish a European public prosecutor's office. On behalf of the joint committee, I welcome Professor Gavin Barrett from University College Dublin who will assist the committee in its consideration of this matter. I congratulate Professor Barrett on his recent appointed to the position of...

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

David Stanton: I welcome this legislation. Any initiative we can bring forward to reduce the use of tobacco and the smoking of cigarettes is to be welcomed; there is no doubt about that. This is a big, powerful and very profitable industry. It is also an industry that has, as some colleagues have already noted, a considerable and growing area of illegality. Counterfeit and contraband cigarettes are...