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Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government has not provided for a sos despite its proposal for a late sitting. The House takes a sos on Wednesdays when it sits for the number of hours proposed for today. Party spokespersons on justice, who will spend most of the day dealing with the Garda Síochána Bill 2004, will also have to be present in the House for Question Time with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These motions were only received late yesterday and that is not adequate time to consider whether there should be a debate on them in the House before they are sent to the committee. I have no problem with the practice in general but we should be given more notice of such motions before making a decision on whether the House should deal with them in the proper fashion before they are sent to...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like the other Deputies I oppose the guillotine.

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister should be careful. I heard he visited a certain place last night.

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like my colleagues I oppose the guillotine as we have opposed guillotines on other legislation. This guillotine is more serious because of the number of constructive amendments from all sides, including the Minister, that we wish to discuss. We will not reach them. Yesterday and today the Minister said we were wasting time. The parliamentary procedure allows us to go through amendments, some...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The other point is that if one looks at the white sheets sent around with the Minister's amendments, one sees that most are amendments to existing amendments; that is how crazy it is. We end up having to take over an entire bench for the material presented to us, never mind what reports we refer to. We do not have enough time and we should sit next week to deal with this, and the following...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I also object to No. 4 on the grounds that there is no Order of Business tomorrow and there are no questions to a Minister. If we are to sit, we should do so for a full day and have proper business of the House. Similar to Deputy Gormley, for a number of months I requested, and we were promised a discussion on UN reform prior to the September meeting of the UN on reform, to make proposals to...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendment No. 12 is simple. I am trying to convince the Minister to establish a one-person position of Garda ombudsman, rather than an ombudsman commission. I have outlined the reasons for my proposal. The Minister has pointed out that there are commissions of this nature in other jurisdictions, but he was wrong to claim that such a model is used in Canada. There is no singular police service...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes, but there is no singular police service. Each province has its own service.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes. The Canadian province of British Columbia has a single police complaints commissioner.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Neither is the Garda — it is a State police service. If we had a national police service, we might have the model proposed by Deputy Durkan. He suggested that there should be a single police commissioner for the whole nation.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes. Amnesty International has encouraged other countries to adopt a singular police commissioner as a best practice model.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was on my final run at trying to persuade the Minister of the need for a single ombudsman rather than a trio, who could, and in most cases probably would, decide to agree, but who in other cases would disagree leaving one stuck with a problem of minority reports from the ombudsman commission. There is consensus among those on all sides in the House, including the Minister, of the need to...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister believes it is in order.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I adhered to the parliamentary deadline, which is 11 a.m. the previous day.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Bills Office struggles to meet the deadlines which we also struggle to meet but the Minister amended a number of his amendments.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: For example, amendment No. 94a——

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He tabled amendment No. 6 on the first list of amendments. He also tabled amendment No. 94 to amend amendment No. 94a. I support the amendment. Onerous duties and responsibilities will be proffered on the Garda and there should be proper democratic scrutiny. The orders and regulations relating to our police force should be laid before the House and a mechanism needs to be found to examine...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is where we end up with problems. We will have to keep this going. I could probably do so myself. An bhfuil muid réidh chun leanúint ar aghaidh?