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Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (25 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to take in a new group or groups of trainee gardaí to Templemore in 2009; if so, when and the number of places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25494/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (25 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to correspondence of 16 May 2009 from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; when he will reply to this person. [25440/09]

Milk Quota. (30 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applications that have been received to date under the new scheme to attract new entrants to dairying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26072/09]

Written Answers — Equine Identification Regulations: Equine Identification Regulations (30 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the penalties that will be faced by those who breach the new requirements on equine identification as and from 1 July 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26071/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Funding: Hospital Funding (1 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy plans to change the system of funding hospitals to one which takes account of the type and level of activity carried out in that hospital; the efficiency of its use of resources; and its response to community needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26333/09]

Written Answers — Victim Support Groups: Victim Support Groups (1 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has met a support group for victims of a person (details supplied) who has been struck off the medical register; if so, the action she will take as a result of that meeting; her views on their request for an independent inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26332/09]

Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009 which involves the Oireachtas making a declaration that the ordinary courts are inadequate to cope with organised crime. I understand an hour and three quarters has been rostered next week for Committee and Report Stages. We usually come into the House to ask for more time after the event. I ask the Tánaiste if...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, to delete lines 40 to 45. When I try to struggle with this section of the Bill again, it reminds me of the Taoiseach's famous remark that he did not read the Lisbon treaty, for which he was somewhat unfairly pilloried given that he was involved in the negotiation of it. It is also fairly hard going to relate and cross-reference the sections that refer to...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I will not labour the point. We have made our arguments and it is clear the Minister is not minded to take them on board. I have pointed to this practice of narrowing the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. It is evident in diverse legislation that has been brought in by the Minister, even where the arguments about vexatious claims or calculated delaying tactics do not apply, and...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The case for these amendments has been well made. It is very reasonable and I see no reason it should be resisted. What is proposed in these amendments is somewhat nuanced and different from the annual review promised by the Minister. We have put through much legislation in this area in recent years, a good deal of it under the chairmanship of the Acting Chairman. It would be interesting...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I support the amendment and welcome the Minister's response to it. I propose to cite an example to highlight the effects of these provisions. The Minister or his officials will have received a torrent of correspondence from those engaged in the airsoft sport. I did not know what the sport entailed, but its representatives explained it to me in their own terms when they visited me. They...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I am minded to support Deputy Charles Flanagan's amendment. Amendment No. 12 in my name is framed differently and is aimed at roughly the same purpose. We have a big problem with guns in our society. We have seen an increase in the number of unlawful killings with people being murdered as a result of gangland feuding, which is profoundly disturbing. We have even seen innocent bystanders...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not wish to take up too much of the precious time that we have to debate this Bill but I have the same questions as Deputy Charles Flanagan. I hope that we will receive answers because I considered this at length but I am not sure that I can see the difference. Is the nuanced difference being imported into this Bill because the previous definition did not work? Has this section never...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: It is entirely fruitless to insinuate that there is any division in this House about the necessity to bring to an end the mayhem on our streets, especially in urban Ireland.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: That includes all Deputies on all sides of the House and, if I may take the freedom to say so, Deputy Ó Snodaigh. There is no division. We want to put the gang bosses behind bars. We are horrified on this side of the House at the frequency of resort to extreme violence and the number of fatalities we have seen in recent years. I do not like the word "scum" but these people are the scum...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I did not interrupt the Minister. I am prepared to stand the criminal justice system on its head if that is what is necessary but I have not had the evidence from the Minister that the pivotal measure in this Bill will make it more effective. Deputy O'Donnell asked the Minister to deal with the distinction between witnesses and jurors. All the Minister said was that it would be folly to...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I have a quotation from Mr. Justice Paul Carney, who went to Limerick and who is the most experienced judge in the criminal courts. He said he had no experience of difficulties in getting convictions in his jury court. Deputy Flanagan has been pursuing the Minister to answer a parliamentary question on the intimidation of jurors. The Minister did not answer the question but, in the cut and...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I have the letter here, it is in black and white in the Minister's hand and prepared for him by the Department. The Minister draws attention to the fact that, under section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1999 it is an offence to seek to intimidate persons assisting in a criminal investigation. The Minister writes: I am informed by the Garda authorities that separate records are not...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I did not interrupt the Minister, who should contain the bantam cock side of his personality for a moment. If the Minister had any evidence of interference with jurors, he would have included it in that letter to Deputy Flanagan. The Minister does not have any evidence. He says the statistics do not exist and I suggest that the reason they do not exist is because there is none. Mr....

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: That will make a change in any event.