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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I support this amendment. I think we need to recall that sections 42, 48 and 50 are the most important parts of the legislation. We have spent hours talking about, and there is a large number of sections on, the make up and functions of the commission. Ultimately, what we need to recognise is that the reason we are setting up the commission is so that it can make a recommendation to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is important that we recall the purpose of the legislation we are discussing and the reason there have been calls for reform. The reason is people want to ensure the public interest is served by having people appointed to the Bench solely based on merit. This has not always happened. Sometimes people are appointed not on the basis of merit, but because of political or personal...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: They would not be seeking to introduce window dressing by way of statute that gives the impression that there will be reform. It is right that a Government should nominate judges for appointment. At least a Government may be thrown out of office. I would be very concerned about giving the full power of appointment to a judicial appointments commission appointed by the great and the good...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 135:In page 31, line 8, to delete “relevant committee has received from the Commission” and substitute “Commission has received”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 136:In page 31, line 12, to delete “relevant committee” and substitute “Commission”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 138:In page 31, line 18, to delete “relevant committee” and substitute “Commission”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not need it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: There is a slight difference between the old regime and what is proposed under the new regime. Under the old regime, there would be occasion when the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board would not make a recommendation of names to Government because it could not recommend sitting judges. For example, let us suppose there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal and the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 144:In page 32, line 1, to delete "relevant committee" and substitute "Commission".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 145:In page 32, line 5, to delete "relevant committee" and substitute "Commission".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 146:In page 32, lines 6 to 10, to delete all words from and including "Minister", where it secondly occurs, in line 6 down to and including line 10 and substitute "Minister particulars of the person’s education, professional, qualifications, experience and character.".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: There is a requirement not in the Bill or this amendment. A person should not be appointed as Chief Justice, President of the Court of Appeal or President of the High Court unless the person is a judge. If a barrister can be made Chief Justice or a solicitor can be made President of the Court of Appeal, it would be like a person who has never been a teacher becoming a principal of a school....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria applied by An Garda Síochána for determining whether a crime should be recorded as a burglary as opposed to a criminal damage offence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6162/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if both crimes are recorded on the PULSE system in circumstances in which criminal damage is committed in the course of a burglary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6163/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the checks in place to ensure that An Garda Síochána are correctly classifying crimes recorded on the PULSE system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6164/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process and policy in place for the re-characterisation of crimes already submitted in the PULSE system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6165/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of burglaries recorded in each area in the Dublin metropolitan region in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6166/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of criminal damage recorded in each area in the Dublin metropolitan region in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6167/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Building Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to proceed with the building of a prison on the Thornton Hall site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6186/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Remuneration (6 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the failure to ensure that the Garda pay deal applies to all sections of the force, including superintendents and chief superintendents, and that the anomalies that have arisen as a result of this failure will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5964/18]