Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No. 52 on the legislative programme is the criminal justice (miscellaneous provisions) Bill, and No. 114 is the criminal justice (freezing and confiscation) Bill. Will either of these pieces of legislation address the astounding occurrence in Kildare in the past week whereby a private security firm, on foot of a High Court order, arrived at a farm at midnight to give effect to the repossession of that farm? This encounter lasted from midnight to 5 a.m. and involved 30 uniformed personnel, some of them with dogs, many of them wearing balaclavas and all of them apparently acting on behalf of the receiver. One respects totally the decisions of the court, but it is more reminiscent of Mugabe's Zimbabwe-----

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