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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?

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

Jack Chambers: It is a proportionality test rather than a test of strict necessity. The level of intrusiveness is potentially increased by lowering the threshold. By generalising the scheme of the Bill and not specifically mentioning those who are threatened by the potential intrusiveness of data, does Ms Moore not consider there is a potential increased risk of data usage with the lowering the threshold?

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 Tele2 judgment requires that "the national legislation must be based on objective evidence which makes it possible to identify a public whose data is likely to reveal a link, a least an indirect one, with serious criminal offences, and to contribute in one way or another to fighting serious crime or preventing a serious risk to public security". It does not appear that this requirement...

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 Minister said previously that he was not in position to detail who or which journalists' data had been accessed by bodies since 2011. He said previously that the legislation will clearly define what the circumstances are in which sources could potentially be accessed. With the threshold that has been laid out and by failing to specifically define what the circumstances are, by...

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

Jack Chambers: Does Ms Moore believe the level of protection meets those set out under EU law?