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Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am trying to give Deputy Rabbitte some information. I do not need any more information from him.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I have all the information that Deputy Rabbitte needs.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: There is no such thing as a point of information. Deputy Rabbitte cannot take it. He can give it but he cannot take it. That is his problem.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Is the Leas-Cheann Comhairle maintaining order or will two people be allowed to speak at once?

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: That is right.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: It has been at all stages clear that Deputy O'Donoghue made it clear to this House that he had never seen the——

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The record seems to suggest——

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 13: In page 10, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "'1989 Regulations' means the Garda Síochána (Discipline) Regulations 1989 (S.I. No. 94 of 1989);". This amendment merely defines what is meant by the 1989 regulations where that phrase is used throughout the Bill.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 14: In page 10, to delete lines 27 to 30.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 15: In page 10, line 31, to delete "volunteer" and substitute "reserve".

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 17: In page 10, line 32, to delete "volunteer" and substitute "reserve".

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: There are many matters covered by regulation in this Bill, some of them matters of minute regulation of a disciplined force. Others are of a broader nature. The Bill differentiates in various sections between regulations which must be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and ones which do not have to be. That is how the Garda Síochána has always been run. Some regulations must be laid...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Adding to the raft of material coming to the House will not address that issue. We do not have scrutiny arrangements in this House which are appropriate or adequate to the task. The Parliament in the United Kingdom has secondary legislation scrutiny which is much more active and vigilant than that managed by this House at any time in the past. Members of this House can see every regulation...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The highfalutin notion that everything, down to the size of buttons on Garda uniforms and so on, should be provided for by statutory instruments laid before the House and subject to annulment within 21 days, is not a practical way of doing business.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The Bill provides that in a great number of cases, the regulations must be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas, but that in other cases they need not be. If, for example, Garda uniforms are provided for in regulation, is the size of the harp on the jacket button to be the subject of a statutory instrument? Is that what the Opposition wants? I do not think so. On the other hand, it has to...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Deputy Ó Snodaigh's amendments were also circulated. Just as the Deputy has no control over what sheet of paper his amendments appear on, neither do I. An independent office of the Legislature decides the sequence in which the amendments are taken.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I did not amend my amendments.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I did not circulate anything, the Bills office did.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: That is not my problem.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I received Sinn Féin amendments this morning but that has nothing to do with Deputy Ó Snodaigh. He submitted his material by 11 a.m. on Tuesday.