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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Pa Daly: Of course. Dr. Lambert mentioned Dr. Ian Marder in Maynooth, who has been very helpful in many ways.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will ask some questions. I thank Dr. Lambert for her opening statement and her answers to the questions set by my colleagues, which have been very interesting. One of the issues is violence. In her answer to Senator Ruane, Dr. Lambert said that irrespective of its illegality or immorality, the use of violence is sometimes rational and, obviously, violence in self-defence is rational....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Is it always the case that there have to be stressors on people for them to use violence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will use an extreme example, although Dr. Lambert might think this is unfair. Let us consider the example of gangland violence where somebody uses violence against another person in a different gang. I would have thought that the reason for that is that the person perpetrating the violence adopts a rational decision that their problems can be resolved by inflicting violence on this other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: As politicians, we have to weigh up competing rights all the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: We are considering here the issues that affect people who perpetrate violence. Similarly, we will have people before us who are victims of violence. That is a difficult balancing act for legislators and policymakers. Does Dr. Lambert think we have got the balance wrong in Ireland at present?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will ask a hard question and I am not trying to be unfair. What should we, as legislators, prescribe in legislation as the penalty for, say, somebody who is found guilty of a serious assault against another person? Would Dr. Lambert rule out imprisonment as a penalty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I know, yes. As a policy, would Dr. Lambert say that we, as legislators, should rule that out as a potential penalty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I would have thought alcohol is a big driver of violence. I know Dr. Lambert mentioned it in terms of substance abuse. From her own research, to what extent does she think alcohol is a contributor to violence in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Perhaps Senator Ruane or Deputy Daly wishes to comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: The Senator may make a quick comment because I am conscious Dr. Lambert has to leave.
- Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is the Bill opposed?
- Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.
- Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Appointment of Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (8 Oct 2024)
- Appointment of Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (8 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government, on 19th September, 2024, agreed to nominate Liam Herrick for appointment by the President as Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, recommends, pursuant to section 13(1)(b) of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 (No. 25 of 2014), that Liam Herrick be appointed by the President...