Results 21-40 of 109 for long speaker:Pa Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Pa Daly: ..., proper mental health supports are needed and there is a deficit in social care provision. I was in a house in Kerry last night where the people are trying to access psychiatric care. There are long waiting lists. It was not for older people. With the deficits in social care provision, is it right to press ahead without the increased supports or are they separate issues?

European Parliament Directive on Victims of Crime: Motion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: .... Criminal gangs are becoming increasingly sophisticated and transnational and this element is important. Providing access to specialised support services for vulnerable victims, such as free psychological support for as long as necessary depending on the victim's individual needs, is important. Wider psychological supports are under threat due to poor Government management of the health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: ...of six months? He said provision should be available to people whose death is reasonably predicted within the next six months. For people with a diagnosis of terminal cancer, for example, if they ask how long they have left - if they do not ask, they may never be told - the answer might be that, without treatment, they are reasonably likely to die within the next six months. Would they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: ...will be many applicants at the upper end. Nevertheless, the change will mean the retirement age has to be extended to at least 62. Will the witnesses comment on that? Members of the Garda will have to be able stay in post long enough to pay off their mortgages and so on. I would appreciate answers to some of those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: ...over the age of 18 with a progressive, incurable and terminal illness. It has been stated that a definition of "terminal illness" will need to be specified in order that it would not encompass long-term conditions or illnesses outside those urgently contemplated. Do the witnesses have any comment on what that definition might be?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: I have just one question. How come this took so long? This issue was being flagged much earlier in the year. The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland said the Garda Reserve is a cost-effective way to provide surge capacity for policing special events and can provide policing experience for those who may be interested in joining the force but may be undecided or wary about it....

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: This is an important Bill with a number of long overdue reforms. I want to mention the hard work of a number of campaigners, including the Women of Honour. I note the Defence Forces section of the Bills digest includes reference to the independent review group on dignity and equality issues in Defence Forces. The Bill contains amendments to sections 169 and 192 of the 1954 Act. I pay...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: ...are indeed up year on year but these offences are aligning closer to pre-pandemic levels. They are coming back to where they were. This comes against the background of increasingly difficult conditions for the Garda and long waits for court cases. There have been difficulties over the past three years. There is a huge increase in the number of prisoners in custody on remand for over...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Sep 2023)

Pa Daly: ..., with the State pathologist’s office telling researchers that a further 14 cases between 2014 and 2019 did not feature in the public records. There have been many instances of that, including in my own county. Sinn Féin has long argued that family homicide review panels must be implemented with interagency collaboration taking place to ensure risk factors are identified....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Process (11 Jul 2023)

Pa Daly: ...for the Data Protection Commission in that it is under-resourced and, at some stages, it seems deliberately so. I also note the Government increased funding to the Data Protection Commission long after we in Sinn Féin made provision for doing so in our alternative budget under Deputy Martin Kenny two years ago. It is very important that people who are seeking information have to...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Pa Daly: ...in the obligations it imposed. It says: "The Irish Government will initiate a wide-ranging review of the Offences Against the State Act 1939-85 [and beyond, we say] with a view to ... reform and dispensing with those elements no longer required as circumstances permit.” Yet the Hederman review was never implemented. These elements were not dispensed with, and 21 years after that...

Opt-in under Protocol No. 21: Motions (21 Jun 2023)

Pa Daly: ...the late Mr. Collopy, whose family has had to wait a considerable length of time for a toxicology report. My colleague in Wexford, Deputy Mythen, has been working with the family to get answers. The long delays in toxicology results are causing families much anguish. This is the latest development in the situation up and down the country. The ICCL report setting out a pathway for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legal Aid (25 May 2023)

Pa Daly: ...and defendants. The other difficulty relates to the effect on retention and progression among barristers and solicitors. There is an impression that they come from a certain economic class, but as long as these cuts continue it is very difficult to retain people within the ranks of lawyers, especially in the more skilled in specialist areas, which is also a concern.

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Pa Daly: ...on the call-over list in the Dublin Circuit Court in January and February of this year have been given trial dates of 2025. In my own time in the courts, this would have been an extraordinarily long period to wait. The picture outside Dublin is not much better. Some 66,000 court summonses are backlogged at present following delays caused by the pandemic, a lack of space for hearings and...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (24 May 2023)

Pa Daly: ...in the health service. A temporary paid leave scheme for public health service employees who are unfit to work after contracting Covid-19 is due to expire in July, but many cannot return to work because they are suffering from long-Covid-19. There are well-documented challenges in this week's Private Member's motion that would likely have been a problem had there not been a pandemic but...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Pa Daly: ...enough, they should go to Government Buildings or take their protests somewhere else, and not intimidate further people, including women and children, who have come here fleeing persecution abroad. The Government has repeatedly failed to devise a long-term plan. In its White Paper nearly two and a half years ago, it proposed a series of six or seven reception centres around the...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Pa Daly: .... I was taken particularly by what the Minister, Deputy Harris, said about the statistics on the number of people who have been raped in this country, 18% of women and 3% of men. For so long, the biggest road block for victims has been the lack of reporting as well as being met with silence or disbelief or even denial. It came up a lot on the justice committee that we were dealing with...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pa Daly: ...a joke - that exactly one affordable home was built in the county last year is a damning indictment of how the county is being served by the Government and its housing policy. Housing lists are long - up to 14 years - affordable homes are few and far between and the cost-of-living crisis is forcing those with mortgages on their homes into even greater precariousness. The main reason for...