Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The Government supported the proposal. Fine Gael could have made the proposal in many other ways. I am amazed. What happened to the single original proposal which Fine Gael put before the House under the crime heading? It patched up some cut and paste proposal about crime a couple of years ago that was more or less the Criminal Justice Bill with its own heading on it. Fine Gael's one original idea came last November when it gave a knee-jerk reaction to the Nally case. What happened to its plan to introduce a Private Members' Bill to amend the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act? It has disappeared and been forgotten about.

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