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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Apologies; I had to depart for a while. Ironically, the discussion in the Dáil currently is about the means testing of carer's allowance and the potential for a participation income. I have a few questions and some general observations. Previously, I made the point in the abstract that if one has a properly progressive system of taxation and one can look at it in terms of two lines,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will join them in that case. Dr. Griffin also identified the cliff edges. Fuel allowance eligibility is all or nothing; either you qualify or you do not. We discussed fuel poverty recently in that regard. There are a lot of people who one would reasonably expect to get three quarters or half of the fuel allowance. To follow my point through to its conclusion, to have a properly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes. I can kind of think we might have been better off if Tony Blair had been a little bit more cautious with regard to the advice he received on the Middle East, but anyway. I take the point made by Dr. Griffin. In general terms it is true and there is a caution here that needs to be considered. It raises another few questions. I have another comment on a point made earlier. I am not...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have limited time, but as this is the first opportunity in these Houses to have a substantive debate about these proposals, I might outline some of my thoughts and those of my party. First, the Irish people recognise the importance of ensuring that people who are fleeing war and conflict receive protection. They also expect that a system is efficient, fair, decent and enforceable and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is important that we have a sense of that. The Minister has outlined her intention to bring forward primary legislation, but a bit like the general data protection regulation, GDPR, ultimately until primary legislation is needed and after that point, the regulation stands. It is legally enforceable and has direct legal effect. That is important. It will be in 2026. I thank the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To clarify, no consideration was given to being selective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay, just to be clear. On the latter part of the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: People would find it surprising that no consideration was given. Whatever about the ultimate conclusion the Government arrived at, people would find that surprising, given that the initial negotiations on this began under, at least constitutionally, a different Government, albeit one that had many of the same policies. They began under a different parliament and a different Commission and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate that, but the Minister was not the Minister for Justice eight years ago. The European Commission was not the same eight years ago. The State perhaps, although it was constitutionally a different Government, had a particular position, but it is not the appropriate approach or a logical or sensible approach to simply assume that we have been working together all this time so we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate that the Government is entitled to come to whatever conclusion it wishes and if it decides to opt into all the propositions, that is the evaluation the Government has made. However, people would be surprised that no consideration was given to selectively choosing that some might be in Ireland's interest and some might not. Simply, I do not believe that is a wise approach. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That will not change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are absolutely competent to do that at domestic level.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received from the Judicial Council the sentencing guidelines committee's three-year work plan for sentencing guidelines, as committed to in the Judicial Council's 2022 annual report. [15783/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received from the Judicial Council, the sentencing guidelines committee's procedure for developing sentencing guidelines, as committed to in the Judicial Council's 2022 annual report. [15782/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the differing pension entitlements that exist for members of An Garda Síochána based on joining the force pre- or-post 1995. [7917/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The substance of the matter is clear.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The announcement last week that the Green Paper on disability payments is being scrapped was received with relief by many people with disabilities. However, it does, of course, raise further questions as to what happens next. In several respects, the consultation on the Green Paper was badly handled. My party's disability spokesperson, Deputy Tully, and I have met well over a dozen groups...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (17 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms of the widows' or widower's pension, particularly in respect of non-married or co-habiting couples and the judgment of the Supreme Court on 22 January 2024; the expected timeline in terms of the legislative changes that are required in respect of this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16782/24]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Taithí Oibre agus Intéirneachtaí do Chéimithe Tríú Leibhéal i TG4 - Féidearthachtaí agus Deiseanna: TG4 (17 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. Is lá mór don Oireachtas go bhfuil intéirnigh TG4 chomh cáiliúil anseo linn. Is dócha go dtuigeann formhór na ndaoine seo go bhfuil saghas social media phenomenon faoi intéirnigh TG4 ach go léiríonn sé sin agus an caighdeán daoine atá anseo an cur chuige atá ag TG4, mar...