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Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I have a question for the Minister for Health, which also relates to the Minister for Justice and Equality. The gambling control Bill is on the draft legislative framework. A report commissioned by Dr. Crystal Fulton proposed a national gambling strategy, under the remit of the Department of Health, with regard to addiction. We have one of the highest rates of addiction and gambling per...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I welcomed the publication of the report in 2016. It contained a number of ambitious recommendations and targets, as well as an action plan. My question relates to the 11.6% increase in 2014, the 30.8% increase in 2015 and an increase of up to 28% in 2016. We know that we have reached the peak, but many people, including taxi drivers, have seen their premiums rocket. I recognise, however,...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I echo the concerns expressed by Deputy John Curran. Taxi drivers are being driven out of self-employment. Young drivers cannot obtain insurance policies or have to be included in secondary or other policies. As a result they have to sell additional cars. There is a contradictory policy within the State whereby we are trying to incentivise people to improve their cars via the obtaining of...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of the recommendations made in the report by his Department's working group on reducing the cost of motor insurance; the number of recommendations that have not been implemented to date; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50834/17]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Minister for coming in. On the issue of Garda overtime, I welcome the fact that the Garda has had several successes this year. Can the Minister explain the communications between the Department and senior management of An Garda Síochána that allowed such a circular to be distributed to chief superintendents? There is a clear contradiction between what the Minister has...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Can the Minister explain-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How did the escalation occur internally? Was there a refusal or reluctance in the Department to authorise the overtime? Did that internal Garda memo issue to escalate matters between the Department and the Garda? How did it reach the cliff edge? Why was such a memo released? Did the Department inform the Commissioner's office? How long ago did the Minister inform them that this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve infrastructure for cyclists using the route from Ashtown, Dublin 15 into the city centre in which widening work and appropriate separation of walking and cycling tracks is required; his further plans to install lighting along this route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51307/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which cycling infrastructure will be improved from the new Luas stop at Broombridge to the city centre; the way in which the use of canal, coastal and river routes will be used to tackle congestion on roads in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51308/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank Professor O'Neill for his excellent submission and his presentation which builds on what Dr. McQuillan outlined to the committee last week. He described very well the interdependence of the ethical framework and how it is important not to specifically and exclusively focus on one aspect to facilitate one argument and that we are all interdependent. I was concerned last week in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Is there evidence from other countries that the so-called right to die has been transitioned to a duty to die? Is there evidence that familial pressures have resulted in the rocketing statistics elsewhere and that the procedure is not of the patients' choosing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: That leads to my next question which concerns the medical profession. Last week there was a disagreement between two delegates. One said a doctor did not have to be involved. Does Professor O’Neill agree that there would be an imposition on the medical profession if any regime was imported and that there is no regime anywhere that excludes doctors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How have they justified their actions under the ethical framework or principles Professor O’Neill has described?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Professor O'Neill mentioned different membership patterns in the UK and Irish human rights commissions. Has he communicated his concerns about the over-concentration of lawyers and the absence of philosophers to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in that context?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank Dr. Campbell for her submission and her presentation. We heard from Professor Desmond O'Neill in the previous session. How does Dr. Campbell balance the principle of autonomy with the framework of care? How does a doctor square the argument of beneficence, non-maleficence, doing no harm, justice and the other fundamental ethical principles? How does Dr. Campbell balance the care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How does assisted suicide benefit a person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How is it doing good, or how is it not doing harm, if one defines assisting a someone's death as doing something that is not harmful? How does Dr. Campbell square that philosophically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: That can happen anyway-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Under a palliative care treatment algorithm, can we not relieve that pain and harm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Can Dr. Campbell name an international medical framework that incorporates assisted suicide under the treatment algorithm?