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Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2013)

Caít Keane: I have been working with the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, who is very proactive on this. I compliment the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, but we should do what 17 countries in the EU have done and set up a cross-party inter-parliamentary group to work with the EU project. The Department is working on trafficking with Anthony Steen in London...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Will Mr. Carroll e-mail the changes to the REFIT 1 scheme? They are important. I probably have the information already, but I want to ensure I am up to date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I had a question written down, but I may have forgotten to ask it. Are the targets for public sector performance being met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Yes, sorry, in Europe. That is a proud boast. As stated by Mr. McKiernan, setting targets is good but they should not be set at the same level for every country. For example, why should Ireland be penalised if a particular country does not meet its targets? In my view, we would be being penalised for being too good. One must balance the argument of targets against what works in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Environmentalism is not and should not be a dirty word.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: It is not a dirty word for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: We are sitting beside each other, this is the Oireachtas environment committee and we are all here to discuss the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill. We all accept that the environment is the most important aspect of any policy decision that we will make for a sustainable future for our children and grandchildren. In respect of the 2020 renewable energy target for wind energy,...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I support the Senators who spoke on the important issue of forced marriage. A High Court judge has said he believes the rules, regulations and laws in this regard need to be changed. The strategy document on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence contains only one reference to forced marriage in its 200 pages. It is only mentioned and there is absolutely nothing more about it. This is...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: The Minister's final statement, about his intention to raise with his Northern Ireland counterpart the question of whether what was agreed is working in practice, was the best part of his reply. As I said at the outset, it is not working in practice. Just one member relocated in each of the years 2009-10 and 2012-13. Why is this not working in practice? There is a financial disincentive....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I know my time is up, but I am not really satisfied. If we want this to work, we could do something with pension arrangements. The PSNI has-----

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: No.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I am just asking the Minister about his intention to take this up with the PSNI.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Financial and travel incentives are needed to encourage transfers to take place. Ordinary, everyday things could be done to make it easier for people to advance North-South co-operation. Basically, that is all we are looking for.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Will the Minister comment on the applications I mentioned? The people in question were not qualified because they did not have a certain type of training. That is why there were no transfers between the PSNI and the Garda at senior ranks. I refer to the qualifications issue I was reading about.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I hope we will not leave it ten years again.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I have a few questions for the Minister. Occasionally members of An Garda Síochána have gone to work with international organisations such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In these cases the members resigned with an option to reapply to An Garda Síochána when they had completed their work. Is the position similar for Garda members who...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I have just one other question. Former Senator Maurice Hayes raised an important issue ten years ago-----

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Just one more minute, please. I refer to the attractive remuneration package which includes mortgage interest relief, travel costs and moving expenses. The conditions under which a member may re-enter An Garda Síochána should be written down. Are officers who take a proactive approach and move to the PSNI likely to be punished for showing such initiative? Does the Garda...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I also welcome the Minister. The Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland was set up pursuant to the Good Friday Agreement signed in Belfast in 1998. We are all familiar with the Patten report published by the commission in 1999 which contained 175 recommendations, nine of which related specifically to transfers between the Garda Síochána and the PSNI, with a...