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Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: I received an e-mail from the United States this morning. It states: I read with interest your plans to try to change the laws to protect homeowners from been sued while protecting there home and families from intruders. Having been born in Ireland and living most of my life there until I moved to the USA eight years ago, I have seen at first hand the changes in Ireland over the. . . years.

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: It continued: Gone are the times when you could expect to be safe when you locked your door at night, or walk home at 2 a.m. . . . from the TV club in Harcourt St. to Artane where I lived. When I visit Ireland now I feel unsafe wherever I go day or night . . . I see the Minister for Justice has shelved the idea put forward by your party. From my viewpoint this is another victory for the...

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: I make one final plea to the Government to do the honest, decent thing and allow the Bill through Second Stage. If there are details to be cleared up on Committee Stage, let us do so in the normal fashion. If the Government refuses to do so and does not accept the central thrust of the legislation, it will be answerable for the consequences as it will have sided with the criminals, intruders...

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Government, both the Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats parties, will be answerable to the electorate for the consequences. This is its final chance. I beg and appeal to it to put home owners first.

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: I note the Minister's health warning on Part 7 dealing with organised crime. When this issue first came before the Select Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, the Minister threw more than cold water on the suggestion. I am glad an effort has been made by way of amendment to tackle the issue of organised crime. I am more sanguine than the Minister about the possible...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: ——give evidence against their fellow criminals. For whatever reason, these people are prepared to give evidence and tell the truth and should be supported. That brings into question the whole issue of what is commonly known as the witness protection scheme. I wonder whether we have sufficiently developed it. In the Minister's response to a recent parliamentary question, I was particularly...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Unfortunately.

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance if arrangements will be made that the Information Commissioner is consulted in assessing the merits of extending the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to the vocational educational committees, IFSRA, Adoption Board, An Garda Síochána and so on in order that the Ministers and Government have access to the full range of expertise available in making...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí attached to Coolock Garda station; the population and the area covered by the station; and the number of such Gardaí ordinarily on duty between 6 pm and midnight on Sundays. [25287/06]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide details of the investigation by a Garda superintendent from outside the relevant Garda district into the death of a person (details supplied) including issues that may have been raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25288/06]

Written Answers — Treatment of Persons in Custody: Treatment of Persons in Custody (28 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he has or intends to put in place to prevent the death of a person in Garda custody; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25290/06]

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: In the context of immigration legislation, perhaps I might raise with the Tánaiste the failure on the part of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to provide information on the number of non-national prisoners released from prison whom he did or did not consider for deportation after their release. A new Bill has been promised, and I would like to raise the difficulty under...

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Does the Tánaiste have any control over that Minister? Does she not accept that he has an obligation to the Dáil to provide information requested in Dáil questions? Some six times, he has failed to do so.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Returning to the legislation and the rules, is the Tánaiste aware there is an Immigration Bill, No. 70 on the Order Paper? Will there be a provision to require the Minister to comply with his duty to the Dáil to give information when a Deputy requests it?

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the level of humanitarian aid allocated to the Palestinian Authority in 2005; the level of aid allocated in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25120/06]

Written Answers — EU Enlargement: EU Enlargement (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the accession of Romania to the European Union will take place on 1 January 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25149/06]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the legislative and other restrictions on the growth and development of the credit union movement should be removed and in particular his views on whether the restriction on the amounts that can be lent over five years and ten years are severely limiting the operations of credit unions; and if he will introduce the necessary changes...

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on whether the compliance issues relating to the existing licensed areas within Ardgroom Harbour have been resolved; his further views on whether the application by a person (details supplied) for an aquaculture licence lodged in 2004 will be considered; and the steps he will take to ensure the...

Written Answers — Garda Review: Garda Review (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the internal Garda review of the witness security programme was completed; and the steps he now proposes by way of external review and by way of providing a statutory basis for the programme. [25430/06]

Written Answers — Schools Provision: Schools Provision (29 Jun 2006)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are proposals to review catchment boundaries taking into account the anomalies arising in the provision of school transport and otherwise, due to boundaries which were established over 40 years ago and which take no account of new schools and changes of demographic patterns. [25506/06]