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Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: All cases under section 1 and some under section 2. The area I pointed out this morning relates to the other issue. There might be some cases under section 2, but we do not know the position on that section. There is an issue of honest belief. There are other issues as well. I did not get the chance to inform Deputy Rabbitte this morning but we are proposing a parliamentary committee which...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I dealt with these matters earlier today. I received the information yesterday and I thought it would be useful to provide it to the House. Deputy Kenny wrote a letter to me, to which I hope to reply today giving the full information. I have already said three times this morning but will reiterate that we are talking about a parliamentary committee to deal with the issues with which we need...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I stated that other charges can be brought in those cases. I do not believe there is a difficulty in this regard. It is ultimately a matter for the DPP. I do not want to give the impression that I have influence over these cases but my understanding is that in these cases, the DPP has an option of preferring other charges. That will probably happen under Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have much to add to what I have said. The view is that these cases are in various processes and I have been advised not to say anything about cases that are before the courts. The 16 cases about which Deputy Rabbitte asked relate to individuals who are in custody having been convicted of an offence under section 1 of the 1935 Act. Issues arise regarding how these cases will be...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not want to get into the details of what has happened.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have the details of proceedings in individual court cases. This information was requested over a number of weeks and I sought the information and correctly brought it to the attention of the House. The point is that in most of, if not all, these cases other charges can be put and the matter is being carefully looked at by the Minister, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: What am I being asked?

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I will answer the question and make a point. We are approaching the end of the session. I reached a substantial agreement with the party leaders in 2002 that we would have Leaders' Questions on urgent issues in the mornings, and we agreed a particular format. Every other Standing Order in the House is obeyed most of the time. This has taken 21 minutes and if added to the normal 45 minutes, it...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: We are here under Standing Orders.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It will be debated tomorrow.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill will be debated in the House tomorrow and any relevant points can be made.

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. On 26 April 2005, the Government appointed Mr. Patrick MacEntee SC as sole member of a commission of investigation to examine specific matters relating to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974, including aspects of the Garda investigation and missing documentation. This was in accordance with the recommendations of the Joint...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Regarding the first question, Mr. Justice Barron presented his final report to me in February 2006, as stated in the March reply to parliamentary questions. The report was considered by the relevant Departments and officials reviewed the report and held a meeting with Mr. Justice Barron to discuss the issues that needed to be addressed before the matter was brought before the Government. This...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The only changes made related to the structure of the report. The last module was solely about the Dundalk bombing. However, in the course of his work, Mr. MacEntee had come across these other issues. It was suggested that rather than producing another report, it was best to structure the report to include all these issues. This has resulted in a change to the layout of the report. This...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I promised the committee that I would try to move it directly to the committee. It has been cleared by the Cabinet this morning and the procedure is that it will be sent directly to the committee.

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: There was some criticism that I took all these inquiries together, so I took a full session on the Finucane case here two weeks ago. I will not say anything further on the matter today. There is nothing new to add. On the independent commissions of inquiry, first we went through the reports under the late Mr. Justice Hamilton and then Mr. Justice Barron. I am very grateful for their work in...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have the details of the reports, from the Hamilton report right through to the Barron reports. I gave the figures quite recently. I will make them available again to Deputy Sargent as we come to the end of the process for the period. To date, the costs of the MacEntee commission are €1.27 million. That breaks down as €786,000 on legal costs, €175,000 on the costs of support...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I have received no formal request for another extension but it is the view of my officials dealing with this area that I am likely to receive one, although not for long and merely to complete the work of the report. As I understand it, Mr. MacEntee SC wants to end, before his holidays, this task that he kindly undertook. If I do not get it by the end of July, I expect that we should get it...

Office of the Attorney General. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 11, inclusive, together. All the recommendations of the 1995 report of the review group on the Office of the Attorney General have been substantially implemented. In some cases, further developments have occurred in the intervening 11 years to enhance the means by which those recommendations were implemented. One of the recommendations of the 1995 report...

Office of the Attorney General. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: On the final question, in the normal course, I never get a report on cases the DPP takes against individuals. I am not advised by the DPP or the Attorney General. The Attorney General has regular communications with the Director of Public Prosecutions on various issues under the 1994 Act. For convenience purposes in many cases they use the same team, as they did in this case. That is a...