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Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The legislation in question has been mentioned on each day the House has met.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: We are getting on with the business of the House. We are also getting on with Ireland's business.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The people appreciate what we are doing and like to see us working hard.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: On the VHI matter, as Deputy Bruton will be aware, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, proposes to publish health insurance legislation this session. Deputy Bruton will also be aware that there is a group, under Mr. Colm Barrington, studying some of the fundamental issues which lie at the heart of current controversies. The Government awaits its report this month. The...

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: It is my hope that the Bill will be published on Monday of next week.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: That will allow the whole of next week and the bulk of the following week, or until Thursday, for Deputies to consider the text and contents of the legislation. It is proposed that a two-day Second Stage debate will be held on the legislation on Thursday and Friday of the following week. With regard to Committee Stage, I have always been willing to sit lengthy hours and until midnight if...

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: It may not be family friendly but sometimes the families of innocent people who have been shot down must also be considered.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The legislation is needed. If I did not think that was so, I would not propose it. There is a clamant public demand to make the law as it pertains to bail, detention and questioning of people accused of tiger kidnappings, firearms murders and the like effective. That has to be done. I ask Deputy Howlin to bear in mind that we should not give up our day jobs just because an election is...

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: We have a lot of work to do and we owe it to our constituents and the people——

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: ——to put in place the necessary measures to safeguard the people's welfare and protect the rights of individuals.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The people's constitutional rights are not simply those of an accused in a criminal process. The rights also exist not to be shot or to have to stand at the foot of one's son's coffin.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: An individual has the right not to have his or her family kidnapped in a tiger kidnapping. These are all important constitutional rights and they should be defended with vigour by this House.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The Bill is scheduled for publication in early summer.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The Bill in question will be brought before the House this session.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: Public order legislation is adequate to deal with the first matter raised by Deputy Costello. Any garda who finds somebody engaged in that activity——

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: Under the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Acts, there are plenty of large fines and other solutions. The Victorian nature of legislation is irrelevant to this issue.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: Senior members of an Garda Síochána regard it as disorderly or offensive behaviour sufficient to provoke the provisions of the Acts.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: The Criminal Justice Act 2006 makes provision for the application of on-the-spot fines in respect of public order offences.

Order of Business (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: That is primarily a matter for the local authority. I am not aware of any legislative reform.

Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Michael McDowell: I do not propose to accept the amendment. An Bord Pleanála has clearly defined functions, principally in the area of appeals but also in regard to the referral of particular questions and applications. It does not have a role in the construction and extension of prisons and it does not have expertise that is special to it in that context. I specifically chose to introduce a separate clear...