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- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: There is nothing new in that.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The entire section has been put and approved as it stands.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The question put in respect of amendment No. 1 was, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand". Consequently, the Bill, as published, stands.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy should not.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: A substitute amendment list contains an alternative amendment No. 13. Is that in substitution for amendment No. 13 on the green list or in addition to it?
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: As Deputy Jim O'Keeffe stated, Part 3 of the Bill deals with prison discipline and it outlines the types of sanctions available for breach of prison discipline. They are listed in section 13, the text of which includes the following: 13.â(1) One or more than one of the following sanctions may be imposed on a prisoner who is found by the governor to have committed a breach of prison...
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Minister listen to what I said at all?
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: What are we doing here at all?
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That would be unconstitutional, for a start.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State indicated previously that he listened carefully to what is now a cross-party argument. I was going to offer my own amendment but I understood the Minister would be coming back with an amendment.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: How will we deal with it when the Acting Chairman puts the question? We are on Report Stage.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Is that possible?
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Would the Minister of State be brave enough to accept "a member of the Oireachtas"?
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: No, a Member of the Oireachtas.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That is excellent and I thank the Minister of State.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That has been dropped. It will just read "a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas".
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 10: In line 2 of amendment No. 10 to delete the words "Dáil Ãireann for the constituency in which the prisoner ordinarily resided," and substitute the following: "the Houses of the Oireachtas,".
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, line 34, after "imposition" to insert the following: "or within 7 days of a decision of an Appeal Tribunal affirming the sanction so imposed". This is a net point. I am advised that the provision to petition the Minister is somewhat flawed in that it cannot operate following the exhaustion of the appeals process. My amendment would create a defined gap...
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Deputies.
- Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (7 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State said "prisoners", but the amendment refers to "persons".