Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Perhaps the Tánaiste would ask the Taoiseach, who is meeting with the Polish Prime Minister, Mr. Donald Tusk, to express our sympathy to the Polish people on the death of the two young Polish men, Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos, who were victims of an unfortunate and savage attack in Drimnagh. This shames us all. I ask the Tánaiste to communicate the sympathy of the Irish people to the Polish community in this country.

Today's newspapers carry a report on a citizen who defended his wife and family at 4 a.m. yesterday in another savage attack. During the last Dáil, Fine Gael brought forward a Private Members' Bill to rebalance the law in favour of the victim of crime. The Government voted against that Bill and promised to introduce a Bill to vindicate the rights of the homeowner. According to the then Minister, the heads of a Bill were already agreed. Yesterday, however, the Tánaiste, in reply to Deputy Charles Flanagan, said that the promised Bill is not on the Government's legislative programme. Who dropped it from the programme? Why is it not included in the programme given the huge interest in this issue?

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