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Garda Reform: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: It was to recruit them. The Deputy should read the text again.

Garda Reform: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: That is what the Deputy is getting ready to do also.

EU Directives. (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I made my money in slurry.

Garda Reform: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: On a point of order I apologise to the Members present as my script is being photocopied for them at the moment.

Garda Reform: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: The profoundly disturbing events which are dealt with in the reports we are about to discuss have been, as they must, the subject matter of strong action on the part of the Government. The Garda Síochána Act 2005, the most profound piece of legislation relating to the Garda Síochána in the history of the State, is the vehicle which has put in place many of the changes which have drawn...

Garda Reform: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: It is my intention to consult the Opposition parties on the establishment of a security and policing committee. If the measures in the Garda Síochána Act are to have full effect, the Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, which has a number of functions and is overloaded with other matters, is not the appropriate forum for having direct Oireachtas accountability from...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: Deputy Broughan must put down a question on the Indecon report to the relevant Minister. I am not in a position to reply to that. The electronic communications miscellaneous provisions Bill will be published this session. I remind the Deputy that Hanoi is not that far from Pyonyang where some of his colleagues used to visit regularly.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I presume a committee of this House is master of its own affairs and that it can issue what it wishes.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I am not here to state what the Oireachtas Commission can do with the report or whatever, or whether it must publish it bilingually.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: That is not my function. That is the committee's issue, not mine. On the second matter, as Deputy Howlin will be well aware, the legislative process involves, first, under Cabinet handbook provisions, that a scheme must be prepared based on a policy consideration of the issues involved and when that scheme is prepared it is brought to Government for liberty to draft a Bill. When the Bill is...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: ——it comes to Government in its draft form and then a decision is made to publish it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy will appreciate that this is momentous stuff and that I have not heard anybody in this House state he or she has an instant answer to all of these issues. It is a matter on which we must proceed carefully, but I point out that this Government is the first in the history of the State to say it proposes to legislate in this area.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I stated in the House that it was my intention to have the area of private airports reviewed. I did not promise in this House that I would publish something in the next week or two.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: If Deputy Burton asks the Minister for Finance about it, he will deal with it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: If the Deputy had been listening earlier, I stated that the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill would be introduced early next year.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: As the Deputy has been told on a number of occasions, that Bill has been withdrawn. It is not promised legislation.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I do not think there is promised legislation of that kind.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I do not believe there is a promise to legislate.

Supplementary Estimates 2006: Leave to Introduce (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2006: Vote 1 — President's Establishment (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 18 — Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 19 — Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 20 — An Garda Síochána...

Supplementary Estimates 2006: Referral to Select Committee. (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I move: That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2006, the Supplementary Estimates be referred to the following Select Committees pursuant to Standing Order 152(3) and paragraph (1)(a)(ii) of the Committees' Orders of Reference, which shall report back to the Dáil by no later than 12th...