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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I accept that and I will withdraw my amendment.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am persuaded by what the Minister says so I will withdraw amendment No. 58.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will withdraw amendment No. 76 in light of what the Minister has said.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 58: In page 26, line 24, after “account” to insert the following: “, while also taking into consideration that not one or more of the factors asserted shall be sufficient to establish whether the content ofthe relevant record should be disclosed”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 61: In page 26, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(h) the risk of harm to the person to whom the record relates.”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 76: In page 27, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(c) The breach of any condition on disclosure imposed by the court shall be a criminal offence.”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 88: In page 28, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "PART 7 CONSENT "Choice of individual to consent 40.An individual consents if he or she agrees by choice and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice.". In light of what we discussed earlier with regard to a definition of consent being included, I will withdraw this amendment.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 89: In page 28, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "Non-consent to sexual activity 41.An individual is to be taken not to have consented to sexual activity where— (a) the defendant intentionally deceived the complainant as to the nature or purpose of sexual activity, (b) the defendant intentionally induced the complainant to consent to sexual...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No 2:In page 3, to delete lines 31 and 32 and in page 4, to delete lines 1 to 7, and substitute the following:“(b) before the date of the passing of this Act, any party to those proceedings had queried, whether through pleadings or otherwise, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to adjudicate on the claim in being, or the Circuit Court had of its own motion raised...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 10:10. In page 10, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“Amendment of Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013 9. The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013 is amended by the insertion, after section 4, of the following:“Protection of tenants on repossessed land 4A. (1) Where a mortgagee goes into possession of land of a mortgagor, or...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: What is now being left in the Bill is that it is not really making provision for jurisdiction in the Circuit Court and the District Court. It is amending certain enactments concerning the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the District Court. If one looks at the contents of the Bill, sections 4 to 9, inclusive, which we have put in, are all amendments. Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, have...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: Fine, that is agreeable.

Courts Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is important to remember that the Courts Bill was introduced last month, November, for a particular reason. The House was told that it was being introduced to deal with the unintended consequences of a Court of Appeal decision on a case called Permanent TSB v.Langan. That decision was given in July of this year. The Government said it was introducing the Bill to deal with some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Dublin armed response unit; if it is now operational; the number of gardaí assigned to it; if any of its members have been reassigned from existing Garda units; if so, the number of such gardaí; if all the vacancies arising in those units from reassignment have been filled; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when responsibility for criminal legal aid will be transferred to the Legal Aid Board. [39757/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of her Department’s examination of the feasibility of a new public defender system. [39758/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the pilot scheme to reopen six Garda stations will commence. [39760/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Joint Policing Committees (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources provided by her Department to local joint policing committees in 2015 and 2016; and the amount being provided in 2017. [39761/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of each specialist unit in An Garda Síochána involved in the fight against all forms of serious crime with regard to the programme for Government commitment on the need to build up to full strength at the earliest opportunity; and the target level for each. [39762/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (13 Dec 2016)

Jim O'Callaghan: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda business fora established since May 2016. [39763/16]