Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

This week, a law-abiding citizen had to leave the country for his own protection. No. 88, the bail Bill, has been promised for some time and was, in fact, promised by the previous Administration which failed to deliver it. There is also the criminal justice (miscellaneous provisions) Bill. Both of these must be enacted as a matter of some urgency in order to ensure that legislators take back the initiative that criminals seem to have seized at this time.

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