Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On the same subject, as the Minister knows, earlier this month there was another Supreme Court judgment in respect of our decisions in mandatory sentencing for the possession of guns under the 1964 Act. We have had murderous mayhem in our constituency in the past couple of weeks. I am a member of the Committee on Procedure, to which Deputy Howlin referred in the context of our response and which is setting up a working group. Are we seeing a very serious challenge by the courts to the role of the Oireachtas in making law? We are the law-makers; that is our function under the Constitution. Are we being challenged in the context of our fundamental powers by a non-elected legal elite?

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