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Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (20 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 552: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by his Department to each county council for improvement and maintenance of public roads; the number of kilometres of public road for which each county council is responsible; and the amount per kilometre in each county council area arising from such allocation. [6147/07]

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: It is time for the Government to go away.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Dangerous signals.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Taoiseach's partners are deserting the sinking ship in Cork at present.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Arising from the Privacy Bill, I want to raise the arrest this morning of the journalist, Mick McCaffrey, formerly of the Evening Herald and now of The Sunday Tribune.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. With regard to the Privacy Bill, I am entitled to raise an issue of this kind. It is a Bill designed to stifle investigative journalism.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Why not?

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Why am I not entitled to raise the Privacy Bill?

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I want to know whether the Privacy Bill will be withdrawn. It is a Bill designed to stifle investigative journalism. I also want to know whether the master ministerial leaker himself, Deputy McDowell——

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: ——will make a statement in regard to the arrest of this journalist, who apparently got a leaked report and published it in his newspaper.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Can I have an answer from the Taoiseach?

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: What is happening in regard to it? Will it be withdrawn?

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Will the Minister make a statement?

Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: May we have copies of the Minister's speech?

Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Minister opened his remarks with what can only be described as an abject apology for his foghorn public criticism of judges. I want to open my remarks by referring to a matter I regard as even more serious, namely, the arrest today of a recognised journalist from a reputable newspaper. I understand this arrest arises from an article written in that newspaper last August. Ireland has...

Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I am just completing it. I also recall a draft Bill which I arranged to lodge in the Bills Office and which was sent over to the Minister's office — dealing with issues surrounding the chaos created last year about child rapists walking free — and next thing I saw it on the front of a newspaper, leaked by this Minister. He owes a full statement to the public as to what is going on in...

Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I have tabled amendments and I suggest the Minister adopts them because in this situation, with it being a charge on the Central Fund, the Opposition cannot get amendments accepted. Why do we not increase the number of judges to a much higher number so that they can be appointed when required? Why do we set a limit? Despite the increasing crime we have seen in Ireland in recent years and...

Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I am pleased that step has been taken because it makes effective the step we are taking in this Bill, which I support. For once I support the Minister. As we are speaking of judges, I want to raise another issue. It is imperative that judges keep abreast not just of developments in the law, but also of trends in practice and social norms. I am a great believer in judicial independence...

Business of Dáil: Motion (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: It is not opposed.

Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Minister has an odd way of indicating respect.