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Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Yes.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Yes.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Ba mhaith liom a rá——

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Fuair mise níos mó ná 80 leasuithe ó Sinn Féin ar maidin. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The fact that this amendment is on a separate white sheet arises from an unusual situation in which the Bills Office, using what it terms editorial discretion, originally tabled this amendment in a form which materially differed from the amendment prepared by Parliamentary...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The amendment was also tabled on Committee Stage and I indicated I could not accept it. The Attorney General's advice through the Parliamentary Counsel is that a collective citation would not be appropriate because there would be a conflict between interpretation sections in various statutes and this Bill supersedes the other statutes.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: We are relocating the definition from one position to another and the Bills Office has indicated that, technically, I should recommit the Bill in respect of the amendment to move the definition in the text. I must obey the rules like other Deputies. The fact that we are moving the definition of the Committee of Public Accounts up the page requires a recommittal.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: That question has just been asked.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Was the Deputy asleep? He should take some pep pills.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: It is very arrogant of me.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: He is not being charged by the State, it is a tribunal matter.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I do not want to be provocative or confrontational. I published the heads of this Bill two years ago. The Bill has been the subject of extensive public discussion, including preliminary discussion before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and Law Reform. It was the subject of a Human Rights Commission report and was then brought to Seanad Éireann. It went through five Stages...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: At that stage, the Opposition parties asked to postpone the holding of Report Stage until they had an opportunity to discuss the Morris tribunal report. That was the sequence of events. We are now in a position to get this legislation on the Statute Book so that the implementation oversight body, chaired by Senator Maurice Hayes, can ensure that reform of the Garda Síochána gets going and...

Infrastructure Programme. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Or the odd culvert.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Deputy Rabbitte is the boy who left his satchel at home.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: That is an outrageous allegation. There is no substance in it. The Deputy has no principles.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: It is like the question "When did you stop beating your wife?". That is an outrageous allegation.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Those are wild allegations.

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (21 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: There is no record in the immigration division of my Department of an application for an extension of permission to remain having been received from the person concerned. The person in question should apply to the immigration division at 13-14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2 outlining her difficulties, and the manner in which she proposes to maintain herself in the State if her permission to remain is...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (21 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The position is that the persons concerned, a woman and her three children, arrived in the State in November 2001 and claimed asylum. Their asylum applications was examined, in turn, by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, both of whom concluded that the persons concerned did not meet the criteria for recognition as a refugee....