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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: There was agreement that the meeting be adjourned.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: The meeting should be adjourned. I know that the Minister of State wanted to continue with some sections of the Bill. I have heard the contributions of members and think that the majority of them are in favour of adjourning the meeting. We will facilitate a new hearing date for the select committee after the Department has discussions with the Tánaiste and at a time that suits the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is not the Minister of State's fault.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 16. To ask the Minister for Health the increase in home help hours planned for the Dublin south east and Dún Laoghaire local health areas in 2017. [38052/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 94. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the substantial increase in emergency department overcrowding in St. Vincent’s hospital over the past two years. [38053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the most recent figures for the number of community gardaí in each Garda division in tabular form. [38162/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each division who have received tactical awareness training in tabular form. [38172/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each division who have received firearm awareness training in tabular form. [38173/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the most recent figures for the number of appointed detectives in each division in tabular form. [38175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (1 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mobile phones that were confiscated from the prison population for each of the past five years and to date in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38267/16]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: As the Chairman said, I am the mover of the legislation. It is important to put it in context, as well as the decisions made previously by the Oireachtas. The legislation was passed on Second Stage on 26 October. On that day Dáil Éireann made a decision, pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141, to refer it to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality. During the course...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: Sorry-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: May I respond briefly?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: One minute.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I agree with the Chairman.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is instructive that the Tánaiste did not concentrate on my main criticism, which is the failure of the Government to send the money message. The Tánaiste referred to pre-legislative scrutiny. I am happy to do that if we know at the end of the process that the Government is not going to pull the same stroke again. There is no point in a private Members' Bill going through...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Remuneration (30 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the disparity that exists between the pay of judicial assistants and researchers employed in the Office of the Attorney General, the DPP and the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37874/16]

Statute Law Revision Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the introduction of the Statute Law Revision Bill 2016 and I am glad that, as Deputy Calleary said, Fianna Fáil is supporting its passage through the Houses of the Oireachtas. The purpose of the Bill is to remove from the Statute Book a series of laws that are unnecessary, archaic and obsolete. For example, some of the laws this Bill seeks to repeal are Acts introduced by the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (29 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 392. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will complete the statute law revision project which has completed the majority of its work but which still needs to review all primary legislation from 1950 to date and all secondary legislation from 1820 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36944/16]

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 to permit the disclosure or publication of evidence given or the contents of any document produced by a witness giving evidence in private to a Commission of Investigation. The purpose of the Bill is to amend the 2004 Commissions of Investigation Act to permit the disclosure or...