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Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Senator Cummins is proposing that subsection (6) makes no provision as to the maximum period for which an order may last. Subsection (3)(a) states that a restriction on movement order may last for a period of not more than six months and allows for orders over shorter periods. The six-month limit applies even when there are multiple orders. The sums of the period may not exceed six months....

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Senator Cummins is proposing to insert a new subsection (12). Is it necessary to do so? Subsection (11) states: Before making a restriction on movement order, the court shall explain to the offender in ordinary language— (a) the effect of the order, including any requirement which is to be included in the order under section 102, (b) the consequences which may follow any failure by the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Subsection (11) explains it in ordinary English. Is there any point in introducing a separate provision requiring the court to ask the individual concerned if he or she understands the order in ordinary English?

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: It could be in ordinary Irish too.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Regarding the written application, if an individual were illiterate, the District Court clerk would help him or her to draft the application. The purpose of it is to ensure that the person at the receiving end of the order — the person who will want to object to the variation — will know why he or she is being brought to court. We cannot have a situation where gardaí standing in court...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: No, but it depends on whether there are by-laws in operation on the street in question.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: They are in breach of Dublin City Council by-laws——

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: ——as was a prominent Member of the other House in regard to his drinking of Carlsberg at the Gay Pride demonstration.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: No.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Yes.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: An innocent dupe of people who are wrong-headed.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: I radically and profoundly disagree with Senator Norris. I excuse him the fact that he has opposed a series of sections here which have nothing whatsoever to do with children and only apply to adults. It has been blithely stated, again and again, in the Irish public domain — and I am glad that Senator Tuffy has corrected it — that anti-social behaviour orders are a failure in the United...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: ——written articles and letters to The Irish Times, asserting this and if it is there to be read, then of course they are a failure. That is what has happened.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: They have not been a failure in the United Kingdom. The great majority of the people in the United Kingdom believe very strongly in them and believe they are a success.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: One moment, please, Senator. There is no evidence that they are a failure in the United Kingdom but a group of people have asserted it, a group of the usual suspects in Irish society——

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Yes, I said exactly that. The Senator missed it while she was out of the Chamber.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: A group of the new hierarchy of civil society has announced this from its little pulpit and therefore, we are all to believe it. What squalid little people.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: I wish to say, in the best humour, that a group of people announced they had an alliance against ASBOs and all of the usual NGOs came galloping out of the woodwork and said they were against them too. We then had the usual pitched battle on a battlefield which has nothing to do with reality. I wish to explain to Senator Norris what we are dealing with in this legislation. Imagine if everyday...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Let us suppose this went on to the point where, like Senator Tuffy, Senator Norris found excrement in his garden and wondered where it came from.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

Derek McDowell: Imagine members of the Senator's family and his guests had nasty things said to them as they went in and out his door and he had a neighbour from hell. What crime would be committed by that person? If, in the end, the Senator found that he could not bear the situation any longer and felt he would have to leave his home unless someone came to his aid, what would he do? I will tell him what he...