Results 3,681-3,700 of 4,915 for speaker:Jim O'Keeffe

Prison Building Programme. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: It is not, therefore, an uneducated guess.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether the current level of gangland crime is acceptable; the measures he proposes to take to tackle the growing problem of assassinations, killings and violent crime here; and if he expects the problem will be solved. [35801/05]

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: The first and most serious question that arises is whether the Minister accepts we have a major problem with gangland crime. Everything else flows from that. We have a very serious problem and all the figures point to that. There were 75 murders with guns between 1998 and 2004. Of those 75 murders only 53 convictions have been secured. That indicates a very serious problem. Things are even...

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: About time. That was the commitment.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: That codology is getting——

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: Come on and get on with it. Deal with the problem.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Minister's colleague, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, has put him in a box on Garda numbers.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: It was not what I stated, it is what the Minister's colleague——

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: Deal with the problem.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: And did not keep their promise.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: They did not keep their promise and the Minister knows it. He should deal with the issue.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Minister is the only one. Everyone is out of step except our Michael. He even contradicts his own Minister for Finance.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Minister should tell his colleague about that.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: We do not make and break promises like the Minister and his colleagues.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: Is it possible to ask a supplementary question?

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: I asked one question and it is a serious issue.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: The rest of the time was allowed to the Minister. May I be permitted to ask one further supplementary question?

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: Contrary to what the Minister stated on numbers, in his speech on the Estimates, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, confirmed that the Garda figure at the end of 2006 will be less than 13,000 and that the figure of 14,000 cannot be reached in the lifetime of this Government and will not be reached until 2008. In that situation, and I ask the Minister to get real, can better support be...

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: Mañana.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Jim O'Keeffe: When will this happen?