Results 81-100 of 263 for long speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Parole Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...the Parole Board. Amendment No. 17 seeks to provide a more precise definition of the functions of the board than was outlined in section 7 of the Bill as originally drafted. I am happy to go along with that. The amendment is effective and beneficial. As the Minister stated, amendment No. 18 sets out specifically what the membership of the board should be. This is similar to what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: How long has Ms Ndlovu been in direct provision?

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: I did not realise I had been speaking for so long. Deputy O'Loughlin will address other aspects of the legislation. I welcome the announcement on 14 May by the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, that he would set up an independent specialist in-depth research study on homicides within families and domestic homicide reviews which will be chaired by Ms Norah Gibbons who is very well qualified in...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (21 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...needs to ensure that the protections available to those individuals are increased and improved. We also need to recognise, and I am sure the Minister of State will agree with me, that vulture funds went unregulated for too long. However, as a result of legislation that Fianna Fáil introduced, the loan owners, which were previously unregulated, have been regulated for the first...

Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...lands were owned and granted as a result of conquests that took place hundreds of years ago. It also reveals how legislation was subsequently introduced for the public benefit to ensure that individuals who have long-term leasehold interests in property could buy out the freehold so that they could have the benefit and due desserts of being in that property for such a lengthy period of...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...they reach 70 years of age but we need to recognise that people still have ability and capacity beyond that age. The Minister might also take that into account in the case of judges. It is not so long ago that judges had a retirement age of 72 in the superior courts but it was reduced to 70. People are sharp when they are in their 70s, although I accept that nobody present in the House...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Oireachtas appreciates the involvement of Ms Justice Ring who has experience of dealing with these issues for a long number of years. I want to discuss the Venice principles, specifically principle No. 16 which Ms Justice Ring has said should be incorporated. I believe she referred to it and it is highlighted in the opening statement. She states she believes the ombudsman should have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...it is the wish of the committee that the scheme continues because if we can get a child off the path of criminality at an early stage we will save society, that child and victims of crime in the long term. If we do not we will have a problem until the boy - generally - is in his 40s.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Conventions (30 Jan 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...said, I take it that it is hoped that the Government will ratify these conventions this year. If that is so, it is to be welcomed, notwithstanding the fact that they should have been ratified a long time ago. We must recognise that international attention in this regard will focus on Ireland in due course. We have managed to get away with the fact that the State has not ratified...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Civil Partnership Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...that spouse, a child or a person under 17 years of age. The reason it is of significance to the Oireachtas is we now find ourselves in a society where not everyone gets married. People are in long-standing relationships with partners who, for all intents and purposes, have the same relationship as married people. Alternatively, people are in civil partnerships. It seems to create an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gambling Legislation (29 Nov 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...and I think it got through Second Stage in this House. It is now the responsibility of the Government to ensure that Bill gets through or its own legislation is promptly produced. We have waited too long and we need adequate answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gambling Legislation (29 Nov 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...been made on this? Where is the draft legislation? The Government and Fine Gael have been talking about this since 2011, which is seven years ago. It is hard to understand why it is taking so long for a Government Bill to be introduced in this House. The current situation is untenable and unfair. It is not simply unfair to people who are in the business of gambling who need to be...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ..., we as legislators are acting a bit in the dark. One thing we can all be very clear on is that people who are the victims of rape, sexual assault or sexual abuse experience a very traumatic and long-term impact. We need to recognise that part of the problem and reason there is under-reporting of these offences is probably because of the fact many of the victims know their assailants....

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...mean that they have disrespect for religions. Irish people have respect for religions. However, religions are entitled to be ridiculed. In many respects, that will also liberate religions. For too long the State has provided a support for religions that they do not need in a modern society. They are strong enough to survive on their own two feet without unnecessary anachronistic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will not be that long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...of an awareness that if one has a complaint about An Garda Síochána, one directs it to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. I am conscious, however, that it has been in place for a long time. While I do not suggest the authority needs to have an enormous advertising campaign, has it plans to apprise the public of the fact that if someone has a complaint...

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The criminalisation of homosexual activity has had a long and cruel history. The Taoiseach referred to Victorian statutes but it went back further than that. In 1533, Henry VIII first made homosexual activity an offence, punishable by death. It was first made a criminal offence in Ireland during the reign of Charles I and was punishable by death on conviction. It was not until 1828 that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance. I commend him on one issue which he has not mentioned. This committee had, for a long while, advocated that the Minister abide by the recommendations in respect of the Magdalen laundries made by the Ombudsman and in the reports prepared previously by Mr. Justice Quirke. I acknowledge that the Minister ultimately followed the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...aspect of these amendments concerns the senior appointments. It surprises me when I hear the Government wants to put forward this proposal in respect of the senior appointments. I have been saying for a long time here that these are advisory bodies and they require expertise. The reason I say that having a lay majority is not appropriate is that expertise is required - this is not a...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ..., it could nearly be diagnosed as a particular condition that requires expert treatment in the future. We need to recognise that it is unacceptable not to have tried to regulate this area for so long. The problems in respect of gambling are now even more severe because of the arrival of technology. It used to be the case that people who had gambling problems would have to go to the...