Results 3,121-3,140 of 4,915 for speaker:Jim O'Keeffe
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which he envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if he will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11981/07]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which he envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if he will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11983/07]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which he envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if he will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11972/07]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which she envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if she will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11969/07]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which she envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if she will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11974/07]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which he envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if he will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11973/07]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of appointments to State boards, State bodies or other like entities which he envisages making or nominating in the period 26 March 2007 to 31 May 2007; if he will identify any such board, body or entity involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11976/07]
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: I have been associated with the view in favour of electronic tagging for a long time. I supported its inclusion in the Criminal Justice Act 2006. It was included, despite the reservations of the Minister. I advocate a provision to allow discretion for judges to release people on bail subject to electronic tagging. If there is a choice between keeping a person in custody and releasing him...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: I am shocked by the Minister's response. The issue of electronic tagging has already being debated during the Criminal Justice Act 2006. Amendments at the time, some of which I was involved with, provided for a process whereby, on a post-release basis from custody, a judge could order a criminal to be electronically tagged for a certain period. Apparently nothing whatever has been done by...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: ââor was it genuinely to put in place a system that will be operative under the orders of the court? The Minister has accepted that pressure has been exerted very much by me and the Fine Gael Party on this issue to provide for the necessary statutory underpinning, but apparently he has done nothing to implement it. I do not intend to go over the ground of outlining the benefits of...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: It is much less than the cost of keeping a person in prison.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: The fixed point system is much cheaper.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: My complaint is that the Minister does not seem to have done anything about it.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Some 200,000 such orders have been made in the UK since 1999; obviously, they have well developed technology there.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, before section 5, but in Part 1, to insert the following new section: "PART 2 QUASHING OF AN ACQUITTAL 5.â(1) The Director may apply to the Central Criminal Court for an orderâ (a) quashing a person's acquittal for a stated offence, and (b) ordering that he or she shall be retried in respect of that offence. (2) On an application under subsection (1),...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: I am not sure what way the Minister wants this. He curtailed a debate, yet claims we cannot adopt a proposal with which he agrees in principle because we will not have sufficient time for debate. This is incredible stuff. He now says we should not consider my proposal, which is synchronised with a similar proposal from Deputy Howlin, because it would cause controversy. I would find that...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: That is not so.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: No, it is not.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: Let us get to that later.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2007)
Jim O'Keeffe: On a point of order, my proposal relates to a small section of the Hogan report dealing with the quashing of an acquittal.