Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

The answer is "No". Even as late as yesterday the answer was again "No". One of the Minister's predecessors said the activity of criminal gangs was the sting of a dying wasp; that wasp continues to sting. Is the bail amendment legislation, promised for many years, likely to emerge from its period of incubation in an effort finally to confront the criminal gangs active in this country as never before known?

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