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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am pleased to present the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012. The Government appreciates the work done on this issue by the Law Reform Commission, whose landmark report on spent convictions, published in 2007, provided the background research and a solid platform on which to build the robust legal regime this Bill delivers. The commission's report included a draft Bill that...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that sections 2 to 4, 6 to 12, 14 and 17 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 39 of 1998) shall continue in operation for the period of 12 months beginning on 30th June, 2012. The House will be aware of the background to the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998. It was enacted in the aftermath of the Omagh bombing in...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Are you worried you will be suppressed for not paying the household charge?

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Like Socialist Party members who do not pay the household charge. They could be suppressed under this provision. Is this the Deputy's case? Is this what is known as an invitation to treat?

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: It is called tax dodging.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: What do you call it?

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: It is called tax dodging.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Was Deputy Wallace engaged in a campaign against austerity?

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Does the Deputy have a solution to the Lebanon problem?

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: I thank Deputy Calleary for his considered response to and support for the motion. There remains a substantial threat from terrorist activity and particularly from so-called dissident republican paramilitary groups which warrants the continuing in force of the Act's provisions. This House needs to send out the clear message that the State will not bow to the self-serving interests of...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: -----the right not to be maimed or injured, the right not to discover a bomb under one's car, the right not to be shot as one walks down the street, and the right of a member of the PSNI, who happens to be a member of the Roman Catholic community, not to be targeted and shot by republicans who resent that the PSNI is now a force that substantially represents the different religious groupings...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Despite rage and revulsion it took 30 years to end the conflict in Northern Ireland. The conflict in Northern Ireland-----

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Despite Deputy Boyd Barrett's illusion that it ended because people rose up against violence, it ended because it took those engaged in violence 30 years to discover that violence was not getting them anywhere and they grew weary of it. Ultimately, political arrangements were put in place under the Good Friday Agreement which provided mechanisms to bring the violence to an end.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: Sadly and tragically, it was not the demonstrations that took place in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s that ended the violence.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: The reality was that many of the people perpetrating violence were slow learners and were impervious to demonstrations. If the Deputies are naive enough to think that expressing revulsion will stop the groups currently committed to terrorism on this island or that it is something they have any regard or consideration for, they are living in cloud cuckoo land. The reality is that there is a...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: There is very little real difference, other than scale, between the conduct some of the Deputies have condemned on the part of Deputy Wallace and their boasting of evading paying the household charge-----

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: -----which they are obliged to pay.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: A total of 60% of people in this country have already paid. The Deputies cannot be À la carte democrats.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: They cannot choose what taxes they should and should not pay. It is disgrace that Members of this Parliament consider it fit to lead people down the cul-de-sac of failure to comply with the law and withholding taxes-----

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Alan Shatter: -----which they are obliged to pay along with the majority who have already complied.