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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Senator can have his lunch beforehand.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I did not hear what the Senator said.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: No, we could not have the debate before the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: We cannot do it.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I have some ideas all right.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The allocation is for 15 minutes.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Senator is so funny.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: No, it was disparity.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Brian Hayes, the Leader of the Opposition, made the point that prisons are filled with people who will not or cannot pay their fines. Senator Hayes's Enforcement of Court Orders (No. 2) Bill is on page 1331 of the Order Paper and provides for the making of attachment of earnings and attachment of welfare orders, something very much talked about by Senator Norris. I understand the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: —— would be the very people who would be howling if that were the case. I do not know about other Senators but I believe prisons are needed. I was nonplussed as the debate went on. I could not understand what we would do if there were no prisons. What would we do with murderers and all the people who commit dreadful crimes?

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: There was a general debate——

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Senator should let me continue.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I want to be clear about what I said, namely, that the idea has gradually developed that prisons are bad and that we should do away with them.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Nobody wants them but we must have them. That is my interpretation of what was said.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: As Senator Daly said, victims deserve as much succour and debate as do those who commit crimes against society. I am not talking about young people whom, through no fault of their own, may be thrown into prison because no intervention was made earlier in their lives when they needed professional care, nor am I talking about people who do not pay fines. I agree the latter are clogging up...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: —— we should take hold of ourselves. Senator Ryan said, inadvertently or otherwise, and perhaps he was driven to do so by Senator Daly's comment directed at him, that associates of the Senator should be in those places.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I condemn that comment.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Leyden raised the issue of water charges and he was vocal at our parliamentary party meeting on the issue. He has not been hiding his light under a bushel. He said that there should be one uniform water charge for the country, which is a fair point. He said he was prepared to bell the cat, which he did. Senator Finucane raised the case of the Castlemahon workers who will receive...