Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill is being forced upon the Select Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality and Defence this Friday. It is highly unusual that we must sit on a Friday to enforce the Government's will because it will obviously bring it forward for Report Stage next week. I want to bring a number of justice Bills to the Taoiseach's attention and I want an answer as to when they will be brought before the House. I think his behaviour is shameful. The Bills are the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill, the Garda Síochána (policing authority and miscellaneous provisions) Bill to set up a new Garda authority, the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill, the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, the international protection Bill, the mediation Bill, the judicial council Bill and the Legal Services Regulation Bill. None of these Bills has come through the Houses. Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting on these Bills, but the Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill is being brought through before the summer recess to enforce Irish Water's authority. When will all these Bills, some of which we have been waiting for for years to come through the Houses, finally get dealt with? The Taoiseach's behaviour is outrageous.

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