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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: The reason I stated that the Minister's response made the situation worse is because it was not accurate. We have a new departure now in that, for the first time on the record of this House, the reviewers' work is being questioned. It is being hinted that they went outside the terms of reference, as if it was their fault. That is a new thing, which was not mentioned previously. We have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps taken by the board of a campus (details supplied) to facilitate a return visit by the authors of the operational review of the centre in order to offer feedback to staff and stakeholders. [52313/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Detention Centres (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: A huge injustice has been done to Goldson and Hardwick, who concluded the operational review into Oberstown, to the staff in that organisation and to the children being managed there by the non-publication of the report despite the promises given, and by the lack of facilitation of those individuals with regard to giving feedback to the staff. What is being done to correct the situation?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress being made to identify cases of illegal or incorrect adoption registrations; the steps taken to inform the person identified as being illegally or incorrectly registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52312/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (13 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) who has defaulted on payments to the Revenue Commissioners can hold a public contract with a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52579/18]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: There is a certain irony that Time magazine's person of the year announced yesterday are journalists when there has not been a single mention of the increasingly precarious situation facing Julian Assange. The Government has a responsibility to raise this case in the upcoming European Council. In a fortnight Assange will have spent his seventh Christmas trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: It is a bit unfortunate that the Minister is talking about introducing amendments wholesale on Report Stage. There was the possibility of one amendment to be flagged for Report Stage in yesterday's discussions. The committee already scheduled a meeting for Committee Stage a number of weeks ago to try to conclude this Bill but that was postponed because the Minister indicated a wish to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: It is as clear as mud because the Minister did not answer the question raised. We have been waiting for this legislation for three years. We were supposed to have dealt with it on Committee Stage about three or four weeks ago. Now the Minister is talking about Report Stage as if the wheel had been reinvented because it was flagged nowhere and is against the wishes of the committee, all...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: It is not about that and I did not invite the people who are in the Visitors Gallery. They came on their own initiative because they are so concerned about the passage of the Bill and have direct involvement in its progress and because we have been at the edge so many times before. All I was trying to do was seek clarity from the Minister on whether this amounted to another delay or whether...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: This was an amendment the Government flagged to us earlier and I am sure we all will welcome it because where there is any question about the reasons for a baby dying, either during labour or otherwise, those questions need to be answered, not just for the family but also for the health service. As the Minister said, while the section is not providing for mandatory inquests into baby deaths,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 8:In page 12, to delete lines 19 to 25 and substitute the following:“(3) At the request in writing of a family member of the woman concerned, a coroner may decide not to hold an inquest in relation to the death of a woman that is a maternal death or a late maternal death, if, having regard to the matters referred to in subsection (4), the coroner is satisfied that...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: That sums it up very well. The point is that the legislation ties their hands. We are instructing coroners to hold a mandatory inquest in cases of maternal death. The only exception that has emerged is in cases where it would not be necessary, where the reason was obvious and clear and we do not wish to traumatise the family again. That was the only exception we all wanted. As Deputy...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I had intended to comment on that point. I agree with it. I had intended to say that but I forgot. If our amendment is passed this amendment would be redundant but if our amendment is not passed I will definitely oppose the Minister's amendment, precisely because of the point Deputy Jack Chambers made. The spirit of this section was supposed to be a coroner exercising discretion to spare...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy Scanlon's is totally correct. The Minister talks about the independent legal role of the coroner and that is absolutely and totally accepted. While acknowledging that, however, we have of course already got legislation placing a mandatory requirement on them to carry out inquests in a number of cases. We are just adding maternal deaths to that category for all of the reasons Deputy...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: The Minister has overly complicated the consultation issue in a manner that is not necessary. The element that we removed, and which can easily be put back in, referred only to instances where the family would be consulted before any decision on not proceeding was taken. However, that removal has to be seen in the context of what we are including, that being, a requirement that the inquest...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: There is no point in us going around in circles. I want to put this to a vote. The purpose is mandatory inquests. If the case is that straightforward, the inquest will not be too taxing, so I would not worry that much about it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: I acknowledge what the Minister is trying to do. The amendment provides that the duty to hold an inquest into maternal death and a death in State custody does not have retrospective effect. This prevents the State from having to investigate the deaths of everyone who died in prison of old age, for example, but I would like to hear more about the position on maternal deaths. It is worth...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: In fairness this was flagged to us as something the Government would address on Committee Stage, unlike some of the other issues, which I will deal with shortly. This issue definitely was flagged and we fully support the Minister in his efforts on this. I echo the point made by the Minister that our support on it is dependent on some sanctions being included on Report Stage. There are no...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: No.