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Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House for the debate on this Bill. The purpose of the Bill is to resolve the need for legislation arising from a judgment of the High Court on 18 June in the McCann case, which found that section 6 of the Enforcement of Court Orders Act 1940 is incompatible with the Constitution on a number of grounds. I am somewhat surprised that this judgment was not...

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I am in a difficult situation on this side of the House. As a young lad, my father often told me that "those who are bound must obey, and those who aren't, can run away". I am probably under the cosh of the Whip, unless the Minister of State has a change of heart. If he has such a change of heart, I will not oppose it. Credit must be given to Senator Regan for the very fine detailed...

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I have no problem with this concept. Subject to correction, I am of the view that under the District Court rules, a judge can order a substituted service on any issue regarding people who might avoid service. From my experience, I know that people use all sorts of methods to try to avoid the service of a summons, especially if they know there is bad news coming down the track. I recall one...

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: Perhaps I should bow to the superior knowledge of the law of my colleague, Senator Alex White.

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: An old Latin maxim that was used in the interpretation of statutes - inclusio unius est exclusio alterius - suggests that my colleague could be right and I could be wrong.

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: It means that if one specifies one method of doing something, one excludes all the alternatives. B'fhéidir go bhfuil mé mícheart.

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I also ask the Minister of State to reflect on this section again between now and Report Stage. I have concerns because I was of the view that such interference, which would normally apply in road traffic cases involving criminal sanctions and possibly non-payment of fines, and the lobbying that went on by Deputies and Senators to have somebody released or the fine reduced were more frowned...

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: And support.

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: Tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: We will never know.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: When will it be possible to have a debate on the fishing industry? If it is not possible in this term, perhaps it will get priority when we resume in September. I welcome the opening this week in Garinish in the Beara Peninsula by the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, of the largest farm in Europe of abalone, referred to by some as the sea slug aphrodisiac. It represents the possibilities...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: Now.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I thank my colleagues on the other side of the House for their general support of the Bill. I listened intently to the very fair amendments put forward by Senators Regan and Bacik and to their arguments. Desperate measures are needed to deal with desperate situations. We are talking about very serious crime. I note the support for the Bill, subject to certain reservations. I listened to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister of State. It is important to provide additional funding for local authorities. They are somewhat cash-strapped and that is why I welcome this aspect of the Bill. Nobody welcomes a new tax of any sort. A friend, Michael Pat Murphy Jr., who died rather untimely, advocated as a young Independent councillor the imposition of a levy or tax on second or holiday homes. In...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I support this Bill and welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Curran, to the House. I compliment him on his endeavours in respect of the national drugs strategy and other such issues in community affairs. It is very appropriate that this Minister of State is present because, regrettably, one of the major problems we face in society at present, not only in Dublin, Limerick or Cork but...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: At this stage there are many fishermen and fishermen organisations agitating and planning a campaign for a "No" vote for the Lisbon treaty referendum - which I personally regret - because of disenchantment with Europe. I raise the question of debating the fisheries, particularly with a view to the Common Fisheries Policy, which is currently being renegotiated. I can never understand why the...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: Ag 10.30 maidin amárach.

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister. As someone who raised this issue last week on the Order of Business I am glad he is here to explain the situation. Whenever the epitaph of the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, is written I hope the author will acknowledge his tremendous and unstinting support for rural Ireland, both Gaeltacht and non-Gaeltacht areas, remote peninsulas and severely disadvantaged regions in...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Order for Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Denis O'Donovan: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."