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Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (22 May 2018)

Martin Conway: The Acting Chairman will be fine. He has served his apprenticeship.

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Motion for Earlier Signature (22 May 2018)

Martin Conway: I move:That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Data Protection Bill 2018 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Motion for Earlier Signature (22 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Maidin amárach ar 10.30.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Like Senator Ó Donnghaile, I am fascinated by this debate. I remember in the mid-1990s, having this very discussion as a politics student in UCD when the former Member of this House, Senator Maurice Manning, lectured in that Department. It was before any of what we know now had emerged, it would have been in 1993 or 1994. The first time I was ever in the Seanad Chamber was when I...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: No, I will not.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: I am conscious the Minister has a teeming schedule this evening and we will not delay him over legislation that has, essentially, been agreed by all parties to be necessary. I would be the first to accept it is overdue. Senator Clifford-Lee decided to go into the history of this and pre-empt what I was going to say. I was not going to talk about Mahon or any of those things. I have huge...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: The Senator is in north Dublin.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: The Senator is in north Dublin but she is new Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: They were named by the Mahon tribunal and other tribunals as well.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: If we need to read the recommendations of the Mahon tribunal into the record of the House, I am sure we can find time to do it.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Absolutely.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: I am very confident that the future of Fianna Fáil and the future of north Dublin is in great hands with people like Senator Clifford-Lee. I tend to look to the future most of the time in my contributions.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Let us look at what Fine Gael has set up and done over the years. In the late 1990s we set up the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, and CAB now is-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: It is not thanks to Tony Gregory. It is thanks to Nora Owen.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: No, it is thanks to Nora Owen. Nora Owen was the Minister who introduced CAB. The fact is-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: The fact is CAB is being emulated by other jurisdictions because of its success. It has a lot of work to do but it has done a serious amount of work. I commend An Garda Síochána on the success it has had in bringing an end to a production facility in Celbridge. There is a lot we can celebrate. The significant budget that has gone into An Garda Síochána increases every...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Correct.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: I agree with that.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Martin Conway: Next Tuesday.