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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Planning (20 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 1045. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that there is clarity regarding the colour-coded weather warnings system used during times of extreme weather events; if his attention has been drawn to the confusion regarding the meaning of the different colour warnings in practical terms; his plans to ensure there is better clarity in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (8 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the removal of dilapidated pre-fabricated units at a school (details supplied ) will be ensured in view of the fact that it is now a health and safety matter; if the units will be removed before the summer 2018 break; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11500/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (8 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the status of work by his Department on the provision of funding for the drug Translarna; the negotiations under way with the supplier of the drug; if consideration will be given to a managed access programme as has been negotiated in the UK; if his attention has been drawn to the distress and deterioration this matter is having on those that require access...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (8 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 513. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the operation of the free ECCE scheme disadvantages children born in the month of January each year from 2015 onwards in view of the fact they will only receive one year free early child care (details supplied); her views on whether this is fair on these children and their parents; her...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are subsidised courses or workshops for spouses of self-employed persons who are not working or receiving unemployment benefits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (8 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by a person (details supplied) will be examined; if there is an appeal mechanism for unsuccessful applicants; the options open to the applicants in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11142/18]

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Like previous speakers, I welcome and support the motion for Dáil approval. Ratification has been delayed but the Minister of State has tried to progress this, despite the delays. I also welcome the different disability groups in the Visitors Gallery and Senator John Dolan, who has put significant work into this issue. However, I am concerned about the pace at which we are undertaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: I thank the two delegates for appearing before us and giving a very courageous account of what they have experienced as civilians working in An Garda Síochána. Their presentations illustrate very concerning levels of dysfunction at an organisational level where there is a clear mismatch between what is being pronounced publicly or to us as committee members and what is happening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: On the report presented to the Policing Authority, private correspondence was sent to the group stating some of the recommendations which had been made or the data quality were or was inherently weak, confined or restricted. Who authored that criticism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Who led the PDIM group at the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: At that stage Ms West felt her integrity was under attack.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: There was pressure to sign off on the report. Who applied that pressure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Was it pressure to sign off on the report or to change the approach to the way the group had analysed the data? Both delegates have mentioned in their evidence that there had been no disagreement at the nine previous meetings and that there had been a collaborative approach to trying to address the issues involved. Was it purely pressure to sign off on the report or was there the crux of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Ms West has also mentioned that there was a conversation in August between the Policing Authority and An Garda Síochána and that contact was made about the information that had been withheld but not by the Policing Authority. Contact was made by someone within An Garda Síochána. Was she concerned that the Policing Authority had made no contact with her or Ms Galligan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Ms West was concerned that the Policing Authority had made no attempt to engage with her on the issues she had brought to bear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Ms Galligan has given a comprehensive breakdown of the data from June, July, September and October. There are four sets of data - four reports - for the homicide and suspicious death incidents. There appears to be a growing number in each of the metrics used for homicides, the unrecorded numbers, deaths where there was no crime, where there was suspicion regarding a death and fatal hit and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Would it be fair to say that for every month Ms Galligan checked in 2017, there was a growing number of issues in the live recording of data in the data sets she examined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: There were no subsequent changes to the data fields or data recorded made when Ms Galligan submitted them to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: New ones were discovered. Did Ms Galligan say there were 95 data quality-related deaths?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: Is Ms Galligan confident that in the months from then to now, there has been an improvement in the data recording of deaths?