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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 1: 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 authorised.”....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am happy to withdraw the amendment with a view to resubmitting it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 23, to delete line 6 and substitute the following: “(i) independently, impartially and in accordance with law,”. Section 4, as it stands, provides that one of the "policing principles" is that policing services are to be provided "independently and impartially". We wish to make sure that the phrase "and in accordance with law" is included....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I must declare I have a member of An Garda Síochána in my family. My brother is a garda. I absolutely understand the nature of the job. However from our political work all of us are aware of difficulties within An Garda Síochána and controversies relating to it. I know particularly in disadvantaged communities there has been a history of a fraught relationship with An...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am happy to withdraw my amendment also on the basis that the Minister might reflect on what we have said.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I also support what has been said. An Garda Síochána is also a noble phraseology for a policing service. Other jurisdictions have law enforcement, but we have people who are guardians of the peace. That is appropriate, and the Irish-language version is the one that should be used exclusively.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The practice of leaking from An Garda Síochána, which is patently obvious to the observing eye, is particularly disturbing. I am familiar with an incident that occurred and have spoken to the mother of the individual concerned, who is no longer with us. A film of a woman in a particularly distressed state walking down a prominent street in Dublin, O'Connell Street, was circulated...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 29: In page 42, between lines 9 and 10, 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...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is the Minister confident that, in a situation where an inquiry is taking place into a Garda Commissioner or deputy Garda commissioner for whatever reason, potentially removing either or both of those individuals, there is nothing either or both of those individuals could do to obstruct such an inquiry by non-attendance?

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome to the Public Gallery a gentleman called Luke King who is a student in Pobalscoil Neasáin in Donaghmede. He is part of the Northside Partnership young community leaders group which has made a number of presentations recently to me and to the Lord Mayor on vaping, the reform of the leaving certificate and drug use in its community. He is here with the ambition hopefully to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had any correspondence with a company (details supplied) regarding collective redundancies; if he has read an article detailing alleged breaches of statutory obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available for the urgent provision of modular classrooms for a school (details supplied) in advance of September 2023 as part of the SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation Programme. [20213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if access to a payslip for teachers requires the teacher to have a Public Services Card; her views on whether access to a person's own payslip is not a public service; the reason for the requirement for a PSC; and if access will be made available without having to have a PSC. [20767/23]

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This amendment, which was tabled by Deputy Paul Murphy, goes to crux to people's comfort or otherwise with the Bill. The demonstration test is something I have discussed with academics, including Jennifer Schweppe and others. I have spoken to Seamus Taylor, who effectively wrote the book on hate crime. He says that, in his experience, it is essential to the effectiveness of the Bill. It...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Football Association of Ireland, FAI, has commissioned a report into the horse and greyhound racing fund. Apparently, the report states that as a country we have spent €1.5 billion on this fund over the past 20 years, of which €1 billion has come from a direct levy on betting and €0.5 billion has come from the Exchequer. Some 80% of that goes to the horse racing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ------into the horse and greyhound racing fund because I do not think the level of funding we give it stands up to scrutiny.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Not according to this report.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Will the Taoiseach not do a review?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the withdrawal of school transport from a child with Down syndrome (details supplied); and the measures that can be taken to ensure their transport is restored. [19684/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of lowering primary school class sizes in all primary schools to include DEIS Band 1 schools from September to December 2023, and for the full financial year 2023/2024. [19803/23]