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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would Ms Farries prefer to have the model proposed by Deputy Daly whereby there would be a special protection for every citizen to match the special protection for journalists or would she have split protection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: In terms of the Bill and the current architecture around the District Court and the referee to the Circuit Court and the High Court providing a supervisory role, the Department last week said it would like there to be a pooled skill level at District Court level but Ms Farries feels that would be unworkable and would not give adequate protection to citizens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would not be appropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I fully agree that there must be a higher threshold in terms of the courts architecture. A point mentioned by Deputy Ó Laoghaire is that if there were to be a split protection, might it be possible for someone, possibly a law enforcement agency, to try to explore or discover a source's communications with a journalist as a means to reach the journalist? Has that been explored in any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care psychologists recruited to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 146. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add the freestyle libre blood monitoring sensor to the long term illness scheme or reimbursement scheme; the position regarding plans to add this to either scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48272/17]

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I did.

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I welcome the Bill introduced by my Sinn Féin colleagues and I am pleased to be able to speak on it. As has been mentioned, the Bill replicates many of the findings and recommendations from the 2005 Law Reform Commission report on multi-party litigation, known as class actions in other jurisdictions. The Minister and others have mentioned the current test case procedure that comes...

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Say nothing.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been awarded to public hospitals under the NTPF insourcing scheme to date in 2017; and the treatments delivered by hospital, number, types of procedures performed and prices paid for each procedure type, in tabular form. [47655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (14 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria applied when assessing if treatment in public hospitals is eligible to be funded as insourcing by the NTPF; the way in which it is ensured that the hospitals that are in receipt of HSE funding are not being funded twice for doing the same work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47656/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (14 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which public hospitals have been invited to apply for funding under the NTPF insourcing initiative; if a system of competitive tendering is used; the way in which value for money is ensured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47657/17]

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I have a few questions, further to the Minister's clarification. Will the Minister make the exploration of the impact of a potential mandatory open disclosure or will it be the Minister for Health? Will it be a combined effort? Is there a timeline for it? When Deputy O'Callaghan met officials from the Department of Justice and Equality, they said work would be ongoing. I would like to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: In the programme for Government, it is outlined that there will be new investment in public services which will allow the Government to recruit additional front-line service professionals such as nurses and teachers. My comments relate to what Deputy Breathnach has said. Is the Lansdowne Road agreement and its replacement sufficient to deal with the haemorrhaging of front-line staff that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank the officials for attending this morning. It is important, in the first instance, to remember the background and context for this, and having read the Murray report, I am not certain that the Bill as currently proposed would meet the threshold that is laid out in that report. One of the recommendations of the Murray report was that consideration should be given to the inclusion in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would Ms Moore not accept that it is important in the interests of the media that we have protection for journalists, particularly in the context of what the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was doing? Does she not think that there is a need to include that within the general scheme of the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: The Murray review recommended that amending legislation covering the access to retain communications data should expressly prohibit access for the purpose of identifying a journalist's sources except in accordance with the circumstances laid down in legislation and that they should require prior authorising to access a journalist's information from a judge of the High Court. The draft scheme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Therefore, Ms Moore disagrees with the Murray report in that there should not be an expressly specified mention of journalists' sources? Does she disagree with the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: By generalising that element and lowering of the threshold with respect to the District Court, is the impact of the legislation not neutralised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: In terms of the standard, it is not a strict necessity - this was mentioned in other submissions - that the standard in terms of accessing the data is again lower. Would Ms Moore accept that the standard in terms of accessing sources or data is lower than what the report has and other EU judgments have recommended?