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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39875/18]

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am supportive of it, but we need further information on it. Some €1.5 billion will be distributed to member states. I hope we will get a significant amount of that. The Minister has said that the distribution of this part of the fund will not be determined until 2020. I expect, on the basis of the information that was given to us yesterday, that we will receive a significant...

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Lisbon treaty was a lengthy and complicated process, particularly in this country. The treaty is a lengthy document with a series of protocols attached to it. One is Protocol No. 21 which deals specifically with entitlements that Ireland and the United Kingdom have with respect to certain issues concerning justice and home affairs. It shows how on matters of justice and home affairs in...

National Lottery (Protection Of Central Fund) Bill 2018: First Stage (27 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to protect the Central Fund of the National Lottery established under section 8 of the National Lottery Act 1986 and section 44 of the National Lottery Act 2013 by amending the Betting Acts 1931 to 2015 by introducing a condition on certain licences granted under the Betting Acts 1931 to 2015. Members of the House will be aware...

National Lottery (Protection Of Central Fund) Bill 2018: First Stage (27 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I support opting in. It is important we recognise there are threats to citizens within the European Union. They do not only come from terrorism but also from organised crime. Increased co-operation between member states is necessary, particularly as a result of Brexit. Many member states have significant experience of terrorism and the damage it can cause, including this country. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister said in his paper that each member state will receive a one-time fixed amount of €5 million and the rest will be calculated based on 45% in inverse proportion to GDP, 40% in proportion to the size of the population and 15% in proportion to the size of the territory. That is something that can be calculated very readily in respect of Ireland. I cannot do it. Has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does the Minister agree that we would hope to receive more than €9 million from a fund of €1.5 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The other €1 billion is for a thematic facility. What is that thematic facility and where will it be based?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: My understanding of the statement that a new thematic facility that be allocated €1 billion, and I may be wrong, is that there will be some new permanent European base from which funding will be derived. Where will it be based? Will it be located in Brussels?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Deputy Wallace want to go first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman. I thank all the witnesses for coming in this morning and for the reports they have prepared. I have found them very helpful. It is also very encouraging that people attach such importance to the Constitution, really regard it as their document, and are very concerned about how and if it should be changed. Where we are as a committee, and where I believe everyone here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would Mrs. Justice McGuinness agree that the right itself, as it exists at present, has not done anything for women and has not given them any rights before the courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is a purely symbolic right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: In that case, are we being overly cautious, as a lawyer and a judge, about simply changing it so that it remains a symbolic right but is broadened to include people other than women? Could that be done if we changed it in the way recommended by the Constitutional Convention or as has been suggested by Mr. Dunne and Ms Cox? The courts are hardly going to interpret that differently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. Sorry, did Mr. Dunne want to say something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: What Mr. Dunne and Ms Cox are advocating, then, is that it be changed but that it will not be changed in any meaningful way other than it remaining symbolic. It will not simply apply to women, however, but will recognise the role of people-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. Sorry, did Ms Cox want to say something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, I fully accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Perhaps Ms Canning, Ms Roche or Ms O'Reilly will want to comment on this. I will set out what my concern about an amendment would be. I ask the witnesses to consider what would happen if we changed the provision significantly and it was then left to the courts to interpret some new article. When courts interpret rights under the Constitution, they do so on the basis of the people who take...