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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (11 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of her Department’s policy on family reunification will be completed; when she intends to publish revised policy in this area; if she will list the groups and individuals whom she has consulted on this policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30543/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will allocate capital funding for the new Wexford campus of SETU; the discussions he has had to date with the university in relation to its capital requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30748/24]

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister for her reply. I ask that she come back again on the point I made about the expression by members of the Supreme Court about the essence of the Judiciary being an inappropriate body constitutionally to have devolved powers to make law. Has that been reflected on or checked? What assurances can the Minister give the House on that not being a factor that, if that issue...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: In light of the Minister's assurances, I will withdraw the amendment.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 13: In page 7, line 24, to delete “subsections (2A) and (2B)” and substitute “subsections (2A) to (2D)” It is a procedural part of our bundle of amendments to section 4, which sets out amendments to the Judicial Council Act 2019. Last April's Supreme Court decision in the Delaney case upheld, as discussed on Second Stage, the validity of...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is important for us to know, if there will be a fast-track process for certain nationalities, how people get on that list, what countries are on the list and how it is done. I am unclear about it. Does the Minister see a role for the Oireachtas, by way of the Committee on Justice or some other way, discussing the countries with her before she expands the list? Does she intend to add to...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the improvement in safeguards to comply with the judgments of the court. What are the criteria and what is the process in determining what is a safe country? Is it possible for the process itself to become more transparent? Does the Minister see a role for the Oireachtas in discussing such matters with her, rather than simply the Department and the Minister making a determination...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 4 to amendment No. 3: After subsection (1P) proposed to be inserted by section 3(b), to insert the following: “(1Q) In a case to which subsection (1) (b) applies, the Minister shall not decide to revoke a certificate of naturalisation, and the Committee of Inquiry shall not affirm such a decision unless the Minister or the Committee of Inquiry, as the...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 3 to amendment No. 3: After subsection (1O) proposed to be inserted by section 3(b), to insert the following: “(1OA) In a case to which subsection (1)(b) applies, nothing in subsection (1O) relieves the Minister or the Committee of Inquiry, as the case may be, of the obligation to specify the overt act referred to in that paragraph.”.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 3: After section 3(a), to insert the following: “(b) in section 19 (1) (b), by the deletion of “, by any overt act,” and the substitution of “, by any overt and specified act,”,”.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is not a Judiciary decision.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: They would be in a minority of one in three.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister does not know who her successor will appoint.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: On amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 3, I am disappointed the Minister is not accepting even the amendments to the amendment, as opposed to the general view from this side of the House that she might delay. If this proposal had been fleshed out and ready to go, it would have been included in the published Bill from the start. It arrived after the Bill had been published and after the Second...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I do not say 2,000. I said two dozen.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I want to ask about procedure. I know it is a miscellaneous provisions Bill. We were dealing amendment No. 3. Are we dealing now with the amendment to amendment No. 3?

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: We have gone round the shop with the section as well.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Sorry?

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What is the actual issue that will be going first?

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Amendment No. 1 to the Minister's amendment No. 3.