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Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: We have no objection to today's Order of Business. I welcome the Taoiseach's comments in the Dáil yesterday concerning Sinn Féin. Hard words were said and I welcome the way in which he put his case to the Sinn Féin leadership. The political establishment has finally woken up to the criminal threat posed to our State as a result of the continuation of a paramilitary political party — Sinn...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: This issue must be addressed and I ask that it is debated in the House. Government has expanded radically over the past ten years. I am not just attacking the Government as it was as much applicable when the Fine Gael Party was in Government. The size of government and the apparatus around it has expanded rapidly, yet I do not know what half these people do. Much of it is based on parish pump...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: He does not need any help.

Seanad: Tributes to Usher of Houses of the Oireachtas. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: Yes, we agree with those sentiments.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: On behalf of my Fine Gael colleagues in this House, I join the Leader in paying tribute to Eileen Desmond and extending our sympathies on this terrible loss to her family and to her Labour Party colleagues in the House. I did not know Eileen Desmond and never met her but as someone growing up in the 1980s I was very much aware of her contribution to politics from the television and reading...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: I welcome the decision of the President to refer the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004 to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality. Calls were made in this House before the Christmas recess requesting the President to do so. She has shown excellent judgment in asking the court to look at this Bill and test its constitutionality. I am aware a debate has been organised in the Dáil...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: I hope the Senator is not suggesting I did so.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: The Minister is correct that police forces routinely exchange information. However, the point made to me by Mrs. O'Loan at the time was that she thought it would be wise to have a definite legal position so that she and her commission, which is not a police force but a public body charged with the responsibility of upholding complaints made against members of the police force in Northern...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: The problem is that when all the checks and balances have been determined by this process, someone could smell a rat and the information could be removed. The Minister said it is possible that an investigating officer from the inspectorate could come from outside the State. Presumably, the officer is only there to get information on a specific complaint against a member of the force. It would...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: It is like the securing the scene of a crime to preserve evidence

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: We did not spot that one.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: That is impossible.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: The effect is important.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: I will not repeat what previous speakers have said. We had a good debate on these matters on Committee Stage and the Minister has taken on board many of our suggestions. The most important aspect of this issue — Senator Jim Walsh also adverted to it — relates to paragraph (c) of amendment No. 9, which states "the appointment as chairperson of the committee of a member of the local...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (17 Dec 2004)

Brian Hayes: I move amendment No. 28: In page 46, between lines 23 and 24 to insert the following: "72.—Notwithstanding sections 55 and 73, the exchange of any type of information or other form of co-operation between - (a) the Garda Commissioner or any member of the Garda Síochána and the Ombudsman Commission, (b) The Garda Commissioner or any member of the Garda Síochána and the Inspectorate, (c)...