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Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will get his turn.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I will take a gamble at this point, before I let other Deputies respond. There is some latitude to allow the Minister of State to clarify matters, which might pre-empt some of the further comments.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I have no problem with that and I will let the Deputy respond, but it might help if the Minister of State clarifies his position beforehand.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I will let Deputy Mattie McGrath in briefly before I go back to the Minister of State.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Subject to being corrected, I understand this amendment only will be recommitted to Committee Stage. That was agreed before I took the Chair.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: This section is being recommitted to Committee Stage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Approximately 35 years ago, Planning for the Future was published. That document was an open confirmation that the existing mental health services were not fit for purpose and that the rate of admissions, including involuntary admissions to hospital, was unacceptably high. It took another 21 years, and the unnecessary suffering of a substantial number of patients and their families, for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure when it is going to dawn on the Taoiseach that in order to restore faith in the political process, we need language to mean something. A Vision for Change is not out of date. The desktop review did not say that it is out of date. Since the notional date of January 2016 expired, this Government has left a vacuum. The independent monitoring body, which the Taoiseach failed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I will start with parity of esteem. Somebody in Northern Ireland who identifies as English has the right not to have Irish nationality imposed on them, and somebody who identifies as Irish has British nationality imposed on them by default. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. That is as England is interpreting the law, totally against the Good Friday Agreement, totally out of line with the Good Friday Agreement, except that is interpreting it to suit itself, to justify that approach. The difficulty lies then with the Good Friday Agreement does it not, in the way that it was drafted? My colleague here asked a question on a dispute mechanism, and I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with what the witnesses are saying and I want to thank Ms DeSouza for her courage and persistence; I should have said that at the beginning, and thank her for her persistence. However it is not clear really. To the witnesses' reading and my reading it is crystal clear, and certainly it was very creative, allowed for a just solution, allowed for people to choose and all of that. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I accept all of that. However, all agreements have to have some type of dispute resolution because with the best will in the world, the good faith, and given the history of Ireland and England and the various pieces of legislation which I read, it was a constantly evolving process in relation to citizenship was it not with different pieces of legislation going back to 1922. It was wonderful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: To confine it to a matter of interpretation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is in the process of doing a review and is looking at all of the issues including the statelessness issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps Ms DeSouza could go back on that because I did not quite understand that. It was an issue that was raised in the Upper Tribunal as well, namely, if people are left with the option to choose, they are stateless until the point where they choose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: On the review that is promised, separate from the Human Rights Commission, the review promised by Mrs. May at the time, has Ms DeSouza any hope of getting that published or is there any point in looking at that? Is it worth pursuing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Does Ms DeSouza think it is something we should pursue as a Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: On something I did not quite understand either - we did not have enough time really, I look forward to the Human Rights Commission report that will tease out the issues - why has it taken Ms DeSouza's courage and determination to expose the problems on the ground? How come it has not come to the surface before? I understand there was a policy decision that made it easier. Perhaps the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Would any of the witnesses have the numbers of people concerned? Professor Harvey said there were no winners or losers, ultimately, but there are certainly winners or losers in how they are being affected by the process on the ground.