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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (17 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 529. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms in place within her Department to ensure the meaningful engagement of older people in the development, formulation, and evaluation of policies that directly or indirectly affect them; and the steps her Department has taken in the past 12 months to consult with organisations representing older people or with older people directly as part of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: With regard to the children (amendment) Bill, I note that there is mention of restorative justice. That is a really important thing. I am thinking of a particular ongoing problem in an area in my constituency where youths - children - are plaguing residents in a particular apartment block. They are selling drugs, intimidating people, charging up their e-bikes and e-scooters, urinating and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: What I am talking about is when they are apprehended and their guilt has been proven, they are brought to the people they have affected and made understand what they have done so they can learn from it. There has to be some kind of consequence for this behaviour and how they have affected other people's lives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Restorative justice to me has a much wider meaning than just diversion. If a person breaks somebody's window, the person who has broken the window should replace it for a start, and then should understand that the victim has had to sleep overnight in the cold. That is just to put it at its simplest level. That in my opinion has to happen for restorative justice to work properly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I understand fully that it is a matter for the courts to sentence, but sentencing where the perpetrator of an offence is made to eyeball the victim and be told how it has affected him or her could be something that could be built into sentencing policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Surely diversion means that it is the local superintendent or the juvenile liaison officer, JLO, who is diverting that potential offender away from offences. It is not at the court stage, which is what I am talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: However, the two elements - diversion and restorative justice - could work in the same process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Yes, but it can be there is a much broader sense. When I use the phrase "restorative justice", it is a much broader concept than what is already there.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 369. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is considering changes to the capital acquisitions tax which childless adults pay. [39553/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 824. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the operational requirements for childcare providers under the National Care Scheme in relation to the tracking of funder hours, particularly in cases where a child is occasionally collected earlier than their approved hours; if she will clarify how childcare providers are expected to monitor and record daily attendance in line...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (15 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 1015. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SOLAS is in receipt of sufficient funding from the State to ensure adult education teachers can retain employment and do not lose hours and that adult learners access to education is not impacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38793/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foras na Gaeilge (10 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 84. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagement his Department has had with Foras na Gaeilge to ensure the group has long-term funding into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38163/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the EU review of the EU-Israel association agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38058/25]

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I have a lot of sympathy for what the previous two speakers have said but I am concerned that this legislation is being tailored for a particular international situation rather than being a wider provision in respect of terrorism in general. I would just caution about that. I will leave it at that for the moment.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (8 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional measures his Department plans to implement to prevent misuse of e-scooters, including speeding and driving on footpaths. [37209/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (8 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 354. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the timeline for the implementation of the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025; if the Minister will confirm when this legislation will be enacted; and if he will confirm that the necessary measures are being taken to ensure there are no delays to the Bill's enactment. [37853/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I warmly welcome the provision in the programme for Government for the construction of Thornton Hall and the additional places the Minister mentioned. The current prison population is 14% over capacity. The Irish Penal Reform Trust, IPRT, has expressed serious concern about the current situation. The Minister is doing his absolute best in that regard. I have concern about the appearance...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I warmly welcome the Minister's comments in relation to alternatives to custodial sentences and that he is reviewing the alternatives. Community service is something that could benefit society more widely.