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Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: On the basis that the Minister will recheck the matter, I will withdraw the amendment.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is very helpful for my understanding of this. What we are trying to make clear is that vesting the Garda with a function does not mean that the powers of, say, surveillance or interception conferred in other enactments automatically become available to the member of An Garda Síochána in the performance of this particular function. For crystal clarity, there is security...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Yes, and to recommend changes.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I am happy.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 23, to delete line 6 and substitute the following: “(i) independently, impartially and in accordance with law,”. I understand there was some debate on Committee Stage between the then Minister, Deputy Harris, and Deputy Ó Ríordáin on this. It seems to me that it is self-evident that these words would be required. My...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: As the Minister rightly stated, we have rehearsed this previously. The position is that something that is self-evident does not need to be stated and that if it is stated, it needs to be replicated everywhere. I am not sure I agree with that. In a Bill as fundamentally important as this, to state that members will act "independently, impartially and in accordance with law" is obviously a...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 15: In page 42, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(3) Where a person fails or refuses to comply with, or disobeys, a summons to attend or other direction under subsection (1), the High Court may, on application by the appointed judge concerned and on notice to the person— (a) order the person to comply with the direction or, in the...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 22, after line 38, to insert the following: “(5) Nothing in this section— (a) confers on a member of garda personnel a power that he or she does not otherwise have by virtue of another enactment or at common law, (b) authorises a member of garda personnel to exercise a power conferred by law for a purpose that is not so...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It is not, because the Bill is to adjourn; it is not to conclude after 90 minutes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is what I am saying. We get as far as we can in 90 minutes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I am aware of that.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 6 o’clock The Minister referenced Coco's Law and the outreach subsequent to its introduction. She is right that it was not put into the legislation. She gave a commitment which she honoured in full. It has been extraordinary the number of contacts I have had even since, including invitations to be involved in seminars and online discussions with young people on it. That is...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It would not do any harm to include it.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I would not be in favour of removing the section. The powers are required, and there would be circumstances, where there are mobile gangs and so on, where these powers would be very useful. On Deputy Pringle's point about longevity and that it is ongoing for a recurring three-month period, there is the notion that, and my colleague from Sinn Féin, Deputy Pa Daly, has much more...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: No, but you would have to go to a separate court.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is the case for the first three months.

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Nobody in the House would not be very concerned by the increase in violence aimed at members of An Garda Síochána that we can see on social media all the time. I am referring in particular to what new, young gardaí have to face. It is not always physical abuse. Some of the verbal abuse and harassment they endure is very worrying. I do not want to suggest a knee-jerk...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome these amendments. If the Minister recalls, they were something she promised in regard to the passage of the harassment Bill. In terms of a procedure, if there was an inclination for a victim to waiver anonymity, how would that be? Would they apply to the court to do that? Would the court make the decision on that? In terms of access to the court, is there any fast track or how...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is it the decision of the person or do they have to indicate their willingness to waive anonymity to a court to make the decision?