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Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Why is the reference to trafficking in children being removed when the reference to trafficking in illegal immigrants is being retained?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: A person could fall under the terms of Schedule 2 by committing two robberies.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: It remains in it.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Jim O'Keeffe is wrong in respect of one of his arguments. The Minister did not act tough at the end of last year in order to confront the gangland bosses but because of an electorate whose judgment frightened him. That is why he proposed the new gangland package which has turned out to be something different. I am more comfortable with this section than I was with the original...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister had won all the arguments on the Garda Reserve and faced down the Garda Representative Association and all and sundry. Now, however, we do not have a Garda Reserve.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: We have a handful.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: As a politician, the Minister is a great debater but winning the debate rather than implementing policy seems to be his main aim. The people will make the judgment on that. With regard to sentencing, we now have a completely different section 24. The apparent mandatory provision is nothing of the kind, since a saver clause is being introduced for judges to exercise discretion, something...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: If I may be blunt, I would regard the trafficking of children as heavy grade criminality rather than people trying to bring their second cousin into the country. That is not trafficking, but there are those who traffic children in order to exploit them, a most grievous offence. Matters now removed from the Bill include serious offences against the State. We have seen the heads of the...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: It sounds Victorian to me.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Does that ever happen?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Appeals.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Would throwing one's porridge on the floor not ensure one would never get out?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Let us get back to the proposal.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Can we come back to the section?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Can we get back to the section?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Shortly.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: It was not actually discussed. In terms of numbering, I understood a new numbering was required when one reached CCC.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: A number of contentious issues arose when this Bill was published and I have dealt with them all except one. We have dealt with them in a way that modified them substantially. The issue of the testimony of a member of An Garda Síochána above the rank of chief superintendent arose under section 7 and we made a substantial modification. We have modified mandatory sentencing and are now...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Where?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I am reading the subsections for the first time to capture their essence. Do they apply to both orders?