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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Orders (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to pursue changes to bail conditions for those who have previously committed an offence while out on bail; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16215/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to appoint additional judges with a view to clearing the current backlog of cases before the Courts Service. [16217/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the disciplinary action that Irish Prison Services staff may potentially face at work as a result of being subject to a barring order, protection order or safety order; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of Irish Prison services staff who have been subject to safety orders, barring orders or protection orders since 2017, in tabular form. [16220/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 742. To ask the Minister for Health when care assistants that work in the Cloonamahon healthcare facility for persons with intellectual disabilities in County Sligo will receive the €1,000 recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16485/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank all the witnesses for their time and effort and for their opening statements. I was struck by the comment, I think it was from Mr. Mullins, that many people have no home to go to and nobody to welcome them. To follow up on previous questions, it seems clear that we have a system in the Prison Service that does its best. Clearly, it does not always reach the level that everyone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: It is clear that Mr. Graham has done an awful lot of work to get to the position he is in today. While much work is being done by everyone involved in the system, there are clearly a large number of people who went to prison at the same time he did who did not make that progress. Many people said in their contributions that there has to be a commitment on behalf of the prisoner to make an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Is addiction, which many prisoners would have, a big problem in respect of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: All of us are contacted frequently by people who have been victims of crime. They may have had their lives brutalised or experienced significant trauma. Often, when we engage in this format and discuss these issues, we get a kickback. Many people feel their lives have been destroyed. In other jurisdictions, and to some extent in this jurisdiction as well, the use of restorative justice as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Is one of the problems that restorative justice is so haphazard? Does it need to be more formalised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Mr. Graham is indicating.

Responsibility of Social Media Platforms (Defamation Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Responsibility of Social Media Platforms (Defamation Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to defamation, in order to allow judgements of defamation be made against the social media platform on which the defamatory utterances were made when the social media platform in question is unable to produce the identity of the person who made the utterances, and to provide for related matters. I...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: It goes without saying that this legislation is welcome. It is a move in the right direction and long overdue. Assisted human reproduction is an area that badly needs a regulatory authority. That one will now be put in place is welcome. For many years, I have been in contact with a number of people who have experienced fertility issues. They have gone through considerable anguish and...

European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Laoghaire and Ó Murchú. We welcome this legislation. Its introduction is timely, given it will transpose into Irish law an EU directive that has been around for some time. The EU in 2020 initiated infringement proceedings regarding the delay and it is unfortunate that we again find ourselves in this position. Another item of legislation...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan for bringing forward this legislation. It does exactly what we need to see happen. This practice is used as a gateway at times by very unscrupulous people to get young vulnerable women into prostitution. I visited UCD recently and met the sexual exploitation research programme there. What researchers told me about prostitution fits into what we are talking...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 1060. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will request the HSE to review the travel expenses that public health nurses and community general nurses receive due to the increase in fuel prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14911/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. The essence of all this is how fast the issues and whole range of problems are changing and how online gambling has become the big problem we want to try to tackle. Is it going to be possible, even in the context of all this, to address that problem directly the way we need to address it? The fact is that it is global, international and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Does that mean we would require some kind of international co-operation across the EU and maybe further afield to be able to make that happen in a way that would be effective?