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Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: If the Minister produces an amendment, even one which is not formally part of the proceedings, Deputies can agree that it may be tabled in the Seanad and formally introduced in the House later. We will find a way around the problem if we take an agreed approach. On that basis, I am prepared to pass the ball back to the Minister to give him a chance.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I move amendment No. 73: In page 18, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: "(2) Subject to subsection (3), where a person (other than a person under the age of 18 years)— (a) has been convicted on indictment of an offence specified in Schedule 2 (in this section referred to as "the first offence"), (b) has been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than 12 months in...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: If the Minister is not happy to accept it as it stands——

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I will withdraw it on that basis.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I move amendment No. 79: In page 19, line 16, to delete "Subsection (1)" and substitute "Subsections (1) and (2)". My colleague, Deputy Perry, has associated himself with this amendment, which concerns a sea fisheries issue. Fishermen cannot have much to do with the gangland criminals we are targeting in this section. I might return to the issue on Report Stage. Has the Minister a note in...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: We are confused by them at this stage. I may return to the amendment on formal Report Stage.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: While we have the aim of a more finely focused and calibrated section, we will let it through at this stage.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I like the idea of crime prevention orders but have questions with regard to their practical application and benefits. They are a good idea in principle. I would like to hear more about their practical application in the UK and elsewhere and the benefits derived there. There is a lack of direction in terms of how the section is framed. Questions arise as to what practical measures have...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I am glad that, as a result of pressure, the situation has changed. Despite this, however, while there are a sergeant and four gardaí in Castletownbere and one other garda in Adrigole there is no inspector. The inspector crops up in every section where there is a reference to a member of the Garda Síochána. I am sure this will have no relevance in Beara, because thankfully the people...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Surely there would be a right to appeal against the original order which would probably be a combination of custody plus crime prevention.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Is there a case for including rape anyhow?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Somehow or other the Minister should find a way. Rape is the obvious instance in which the offender, upon release, should go nowhere near the victim.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Or divide the Schedule or draft another Schedule.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: What about the inspector issue?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: A number of areas are not covered by inspectors.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The Minister is suggesting the current Fine Gael Member for west Cork does not have the same interest in Beara. Sergeants should perform this function because they are deployed in every area. For example, the Garda deploys only two inspectors in my constituency, which is larger than many counties.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: There may not be inspectors in the area.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The officer in charge of the Garda station in the area the offender resides could be used.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I have a different approach from the Minister. It is not the job of the judges to provide a database any more than it is their job to provide a courthouse. It is the job of the Executive and the Oireachtas to provide the means by which the judges do their job. One of those means is the provision of courthouses, the other is the provision of databases or registers of sentences, which is...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I am glad of the source of the accusation. I would be quite prepared to accept, provided the enabling provision was there, that the detail is probably something that would be better spelled out in regulation. This is all the more reason to start, as was rightly pointed out by the Minister, with certain basic things on a register, subject to the development of the appropriate technology....