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Written Answers — Firearms Licences: Firearms Licences (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the increase in gun licences here in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27149/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the individual isolation units for cystic fibrosis in-patients at St Vincent's Hospital will be completed and ready for use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26721/08]

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: The Minister is conceding on this point. He should have said that an hour ago.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: The hours were changed in Scotland.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: In Glasgow they had to change the measure providing for a closing time of 2 a.m. because everybody disgorged onto the street at the same time. That is a city with a similar profile to this city.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: I will press it as it is an important issue.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: I accept what the Minister has done here. It was an act of folly in the first instance to single out the early morning houses for closure in the manner envisaged. I am pleased the representations made to the Minister from this side of the House and from people outside the House have given a stay of execution to the early houses but I do not know for how long that will continue. There had...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: Is amendment No. 6 dead?

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: What is the existing legislation?

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: That refers to the licensee, but the licensee would not be taking it.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: It is not already covered.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: It is most unlikely. In the cases to which Deputy Ó Snodaigh referred and those that have been commonly reported to us and in the newspapers, there is no question of the licensee taking the goods off the premises. The licensee engages in the transaction of selling to somebody who comes in as an agent.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: What will be the practical import of the amendments and the regulations? Deputy Ó Snodaigh made a reasonable point. An alleged offender will be questioned by a garda, presumably at the scene of the public disorder or drunken state. He or she will be taken to the Garda station and an arrest will be made followed by a caution and a charge. Is it envisaged the person will be released at...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: If a person opts to go to court, will that choice result in a greater penalty? Will going to court militate against the citizen?

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: What if there is no court?

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: ""Court" means the District Court and in relation to any application to the Court means the District Court for the court area in which the premises to which the application relates is situated;". This is a technical amendment, whereas amendment No. 52 is important. Under the Minister's proposal, the closing...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: I do not hold with what the Minister has said for a number of reasons. I regret that we will not have the opportunity to debate the matter fully. The Minister talked at great length about the effects of alcohol and the adverse consequences of a drink culture. He knows that the Government of which he has been a member for many years has no alcohol strategy at all. When the Department of...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: No, they are not. The Minister's party has shirked from dealing with the concept of a nightclub in a regulatory manner. He is in denial and does not accept such a concept exists. It will just be a fig leaf of a dancing area in an ordinary seven-day public licensed premises. The Minister facilitated loopholes with theatre licenses until a committee told him to call a halt. If it were not...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: The Minister made an important point in his reply to Deputy Rabbitte with regard to codification and further reports pending. I respectfully suggest we park this Bill until such time as we have further and more lengthy legislation. Earlier this year, my party indicated we would consent to the passage of an interim measure. However, since then the situation has changed substantially. The...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2008)

Charles Flanagan: It is compounded by the fact that we have merely 90 minutes to discuss it. I suggest we park it. Earlier today, the Minister spoke about all-party committees. This Bill is ideally suited to such a committee.