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Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: A chief superintendent, specifically.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste has a great hankering for such a position.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: It is not agreed, Sir. Members will recall that a last minute brokered position was achieved when the Tánaiste offered not to guillotine all Stages of the Criminal Justice Bill at the last sitting before the Easter recess. There are now 171 amendments, some of which are new and many of them from the Tánaiste. We have very tight time and have acted very responsibly on this. There has...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The debate has been unusual in that we recommitted most of the Bill and debated it on Committee Stage a second time. There were areas that were not touched upon and, as a result, amendments I have tabled on Report Stage have been ruled out of order. Is there any way to discuss them because if we get to the issue of detention periods, an issue we did not cover, only the Minister's proposals...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 12: In page 8, line 22, after "failure" to insert "or refusal". This is a simple, technical amendment to ensure that refusal, as opposed to passive failure, is also covered. In section 3(2) I wish to insert "or refusal". The repeal of subsection (1) of the enactment specified in Schedule 1 does not affect the application of those enactments to a failure or refusal to...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I simply wanted the matter to be checked and I am pleased to accept the views of the Tánaiste.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy may not comment but he will.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I support Deputy Jim O'Keeffe's proposal. We had some discussion on this matter on Committee Stage, when the Minister talked about the practicalities of it, accepting that the most practical way to do this, perhaps, would be to have portable screens that could be transported to the Garda station where an identification process was due to take place. Both Deputy Jim O'Keeffe and the...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: As a young lad up from the country I was requested to stand in an identification parade. There was very little chance of being identified——

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: That is the precisely the point I was going to make. There was certainly a disparity in sizes and the point the Tánaiste makes is a fair one. In certain circumstances, when the elderly in particular are confronted by a perpetrator, it is not satisfactory that they should meet eyeball to eyeball, much less have to physically come into contact with each other. There is great merit in this...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I feel a place on the judicial benches coming for the Minister from which he can make judicial announcements.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (24 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: In accordance with the terms of Standing Order 31, I wish to move the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following specific and important matter of public interest requiring urgent attention: the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline the steps she intends to take to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four members of the Dunne family, which has...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Question 63: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to regulate the operation of the private waste collection and waste treatment industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13263/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Question 72: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a national waiver scheme, to provide financial relief for households, including pensioners who are experiencing hardships arising from the payment of waste charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13264/07]

Written Answers — Death Certificates: Death Certificates (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a declaration of death in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 who disappeared from the Rosslare to Pembroke ferry in September 1994; if such a declaration is expected to be made in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13936/07]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the basis on which a memorandum of understanding was concluded between An Garda Síochána and one motor insurance company (details supplied); if the public was made aware of the existence of such a memorandum; if any other insurance company was offered a similar arrangement; the way the accrued savings of...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a newspaper report (details supplied) in which it is claimed that an insurance company had been using former and serving gardaí to negotiate early settlement of motor insurance claims and that these former and serving gardaí had the ability to access, source and relay...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I read this section and I was not quite certain what it was about. I thought it was just a saver clause to provide a legislative basis for an inquiry into something which happened that was not covered in the rest of the Bill. However, the matter raised by the Minister should be a matter for the Garda Ombudsman Commission. If we are to establish a robust system with 100 investigators, then...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Yes. These are two separate allegations. The public rebuttal of one does not undermine the seriousness of either or the need to investigate both.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister can refer matters to the commission.