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Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Charles Flanagan: Earlier today we voted on eight guillotined motions that were placed on the Order Paper by the Government. Can I add two more? The Government published the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009 this afternoon and it contains very far reaching proposals. Given the fact that the Dáil is due to rise next week, there is no way that the House will have had an opportunity to scrutinise this...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Charles Flanagan: It has not been published yet.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Charles Flanagan: If I did not ask about it, we would never know.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 Jun 2009)

Charles Flanagan: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that cystic fibrosis patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, remain on crowded wards and are therefore at risk of potentially fatal infection, and that, despite this situation, St. Vincent's is closing a ward used by CF patients on 1 July 2009 in order to save money; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (30 Jun 2009)

Charles Flanagan: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of crutches or pairs of crutches purchased by the Health Service Executive in the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008; the cost on the HSE for such crutches over the four years period and further; the number of crutches returned or accepted by the HSE during that same period; the policy of the HSE in respect of re-using or...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I move amendment No. a1: In page 15, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "3.—The operation of this Act shall be reviewed by the Minister and a report shall be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas five years after the commencement of this Act.". Having regard to the late amendments that have been introduced by the Minister and to the highly technical nature of this Bill, I...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I am prepared to accept what the Minister said. I take it he is referring to amendment No. 1, which I accept. I would have thought both amendments were sufficiently connected. Perhaps we could have discussed them together.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: It is take it or leave it. I will withdraw my amendment. I thank the Minister and acknowledge what he said.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: This is rather novel. It is broadly similar to what the Minister's colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, did in regard to the Nursing Home Support Bill 2008 and it is important. I am not sure if the Minister was in the Chamber but I had the opportunity last week or the week before to refer to this issue of a Minister changing the law by way of regulation rather than primary...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I have no issue with that.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister for his explanation. It is important to ensure there is full clarity in this regard. I welcome the amendments.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I ask the Minister to give the House a practical example of what he is talking about. It seems we are vesting in the court the power to make an order in respect of, for example, a right of way that may be in dispute and heretofore would have remained in dispute or could not have been clarified because it did not fulfil the requirements of the appropriate common law doctrine. Am I right in...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: We have moved on to the travails of Fionn MacCumhaill in the Minister's constituency of Louth. At a committee meeting earlier today we listened to the Minister speak about Éamon de Valera's heart.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: The Minister has had a very busy day. I take it from what he has said the court will now be in a position to disregard many of the long-held rules that govern what constitutes a prescriptive right of way. It will be possible to set these rules aside if it can be shown that the acquisition or otherwise of a right of way might, in the circumstances, be just and equitable.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I accept that.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: The Minister will be familiar with trees from previous expeditions he undertook in London and north County Dublin regarding his former colleague, the former Deputy, Ray Burke. He should talk to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, about this issue. It is a real issue in the context of a citizen not having an immediate right of redress in...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: Will the Acting Chairman not do a Judge Judy on it?

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: It is a tort of nuisance.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I accept what the Minister said that these amendments are being made on the basis of a written submission made by the conveyancing committee of the Law Society which engages in the practice of these matters. I welcome what the Minister has done in compliance with the recommendation.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister for making that change.