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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 383. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug eteplirsen is available for persons here; his plans to fund this drug for public patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42892/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Travel Information and Authorisation System: Motions (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: When is it envisaged that this will be implemented? I echo the questions about Brexit. Is there any indication about Britain's role within Europol post-Brexit because that obviously will have a significant impact on European citizens going in and out? Is there any indication when this regulation will be fully implemented across the EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank the acting Garda Commissioner and his team for coming in to the committee and I wish him well in his new role. I also acknowledge the work of Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan in what was a comprehensive report. As Deputy Brophy has said, it is important that the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality recognises and acknowledges the great work done across all levels of An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: In his overview, Mr. O'Sullivan said how under section 4 of the Road Traffic Act 2010, MAT checkpoints were introduced and how during the period pre-2009 most MAT checkpoints were not electronically recorded and that some local managers developed a practice of recording these under the generic category, which I believe we addressed these before, of "Attention and Complaints". This outlines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would Mr. Finn say the figures from 2007 or 2008 were more or less accurate than the figures after that period, or is it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would it then be fair to say that the records from 2007 and 2008 cannot be verified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: I want to go back to another point. Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan mentioned that there was no performance management regarding mandatory alcohol testing checkpoints and that they were based on reducing road deaths. This is mentioned in many of the Garda's policing plans. In correspondence with the justice committee, Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan has said the results of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Many of the policing plans - I have a number of them here - mention performance indicators in which the lead responsibility or process owner around divisions and regions were related to breath tests. For example, in one policing plan the number of MAT checkpoints and the number of over-the-limit arrests made in Waterford in 2012 are outlined. In Dublin metropolitan region, DMR, south in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: We know those policing plans were incorporated from when the checkpoint process begun in 2006. Does Mr. Ó Cualáin think that performance management process and the KPIs that were detailed in all the policing plans had a contributory role in the inflation of breath test figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would that process have given weight to the observation by the Policing Authority chairperson, Ms Feehily, that there was an implicit expectation? Would Mr. Ó Cualáin say there is a link between the implicit expectation regarding the number of MAT checkpoints and the number of breath tests? Did that generate an implicit expectation regarding the targets that were there?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Does Mr. Ó Cualáin think it would be fair to say that the over-ambitious targets, as mentioned in the Garda's report - I accept they are multivariable and factorial - would have been a contributory factor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: On a separate point, was there any evidence of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: I will finish now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Deputy O'Callaghan mentioned the Garda Information Services Centre and the fact that some of the data were submitted at the point at which they were attained. Was there evidence of those data being changed above the level at which they were submitted, or was it all front-line manipulation, according to the Garda report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: I have huge sympathy for senior management in An Garda Síochána where this issue is concerned. It has been framed by Government. It is comparable to a primary school teacher asking what two plus two is and expecting a student provide an answer of four. As the witnesses have mentioned, the Government gave them the criteria. Are they comfortable with the Government dictating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Should An Garda Síochána not make the decision and set the criteria? It is a "Yes" or "No" scenario. It is important. I know Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll might not want to answer, but would he be comfortable with a future recommendation from Government to examine a further eight stations that slot around a particular parameter? Would he prefer to have it by the criteria the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: We subscribe to the Policing Authority and removing politics from policing, which is better for members of An Garda Síochána. The force is being told how to utilise its resources because of a political stroke, which is wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: I might not get an answer, but it is important to record that I have sympathy for what the Garda had to go through last week. The Government and departmental officials put two and two together and the Garda had to answer "four". The Garda was not given the opportunity to set its own criteria and decide where was the appropriate place to open a new station or reopen an alternative one....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance has been cut from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined who has been placed on two different back to work schemes but has been told they can only accept certain offers and have reluctantly had to turn down a number of suitable offers; if their social welfare payments can be affected if they refuse to accept a place on a...