Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

We cannot wait for the Minister's new fines legislation, which may not be enacted by this time next year. How can the Minister stand over the unedifying spectacle in Limerick, where a well-known leading gang member has turned himself into the Garda station for his own protection although a bench warrant has not been executed. How can the Minister stand over the case of another famous and tragic murder, that of Donna Cleary, where the person responsible had two bench warrants? Surely it is possible to distinguish between the criminal on the one hand and the civil on the other. Can the Minister not do so?

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