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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Ceart go leor.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Amendment No. 34 is in the name of Deputy Ó Ríordáin, who is not present.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: I think we have the gist of it but it would be better to avoid specific incidents further, if we can. We are talking about possible allegations that may have been made that we may struggle to recall ourselves. It is a bit nebulous.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: The Deputy could not remember it himself a minute ago. I cannot either.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: The Deputy has given a number of recent, contemporary, political entanglements but I am also reminded of such things as Peter Berry and the Arms Trial where information was passed on and which perhaps changed the course of the State. There have been so many significant interventions at certain times that I can see the logic behind the line taken by the Deputy. Did the Deputy wish to come...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Well, it may or it may not be because if one looks at section 36(1)(a)(i), it refers to “the preservation of peace and public order in the State,” and in the instance of the Arms Trial it was the Northern Ireland state, which arguably is a different state. This is the point. We do not want to end up in a situation where a Commissioner cannot tell the Minister something...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: That is the point, where it can be debated either way.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: The amendment is being pressed.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Amendments Nos. 43 and 44 are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Is the Deputy withdrawing the amendment?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: The Deputy can. He can withdraw it and flag that he wishes to return to it on Report Stage. That is the procedure.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: There is a lot in the salient rulings of the Chair, but I am not going to resort to that right now.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: No, but I am also conscious that we have 300 items on the clár for today.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: You do not have to do that; the choice is yours. What I might suggest, respectfully, is that you withdraw the amendment now and flag that you want to return to it on Report Stage. That allows you to re-enter it on Report stage, which is what I would do in your position, but it is obviously your call.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: As a general point to all present, we have several items to get through, so I might have to curtail remarks. I do not want to truncate democracy but I do want to get through this Bill today. I am conscious that staff are sitting late to facilitate that. We will try to move quickly through as many sections as we can. Amendments Nos. 45 to 49, inclusive, have already been discussed, so I...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Amendment No. 51 is in the name of Deputy Costello. Are you still will us, Deputy Costello? No.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Amendment No. 53 has already been discussed.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Amendment No. 55 is in the name of Deputy Costello. Is Deputy Costello online? No. He may be otherwise engaged.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Amendments Nos. 60 to 62, inclusive, and 104, are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
James Lawless: Which section is that?