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Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I know, but the fact that we have come back to it so quickly means the Minister did not get it right.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister did not identify the problems. I did not agree with mandatory sentences, which is the reason for the amendments. I assume, if a mandatory sentence is to apply to somebody caught with a firearm in suspicious circumstances, it would apply to a wife who picks up an unlicensed gun kept in the home. If a person carries out a hijacking or an armed robbery he or she knows what they...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 122: In page 38, to delete lines 37 to 39 and substitute the following: "(4) Not fewer than 50 per cent of the members of the Board shall be women.". This is a standard amendment of mine and a proposal I have submitted to various boards. I have heard the Minister's arguments to the effect that such a provision would be awkward to implement but we should try, when...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My amendment was ruled out of order. It offered a separate model and formulation. If the Minister believes that at some stage we should have a police authority, this is the time to establish it. Has the Minister given any thought to the remuneration that would be available to the non-executive members? It will be subject to discussion between the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 125: In page 39, line 1, after "in" to insert the following: "the application of best practice in human rights compliance,". This amendment is self-explanatory and similar to other amendments I have proposed in respect of various pieces of legislation. It is also similar to amendment No. 126. Even though we are talking about strategic and financial management and...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 128: In page 40, line 8, after "review" to insert the following: "and advise the Garda Commissioner, the Minister and both Houses of the Oireachtas on". This amendment aims to ensure that the function of the board is to advise the Garda Commissioner even though he or she would be a member of the board. At the end of the day, the Commissioner will be making decisions by...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 130: In page 40, lines 17 and 18, after "performance" to insert the following: "including the distribution and stationing of An Garda Síochána members throughout the State". This amendment is self-explanatory. The amendment gives an additional job to the board to review. It is probably included the Bill, but I wanted it to be stated.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 131: In page 40, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: "(3) The Board shall also keep under review the recommendations of the various Joint Policing Committees and the implementation of those recommendations by the Minister and an Garda Síochána.". Joint policing committees were set up last year and they have a function to make recommendations. This...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 133: In page 40, line 39, after "receipt" to insert "and no later than two weeks". This is to ensure there is a timely publication of the report when submitted. A quick turnaround is required.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 134: In page 41, to delete lines 3 to 5 and substitute the following: "42.—(1) The Minister, both Houses of the Oireachtas or the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, with respect to any matter considered by him or her or them to be of public concern, shall by order appoint a person to-". The intent of these amendments is to ensure there is...

Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He needs a two week holiday.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste was in possession on a point of order and I do not know whether he had finished.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to speak on amendments Nos. 115 to 120. They are on the point I have made already about mandatory sentences so I will not repeat them except to say that we dealt with firearms in legislation last year. The fact that we are returning to the issue so soon shows that the Tánaiste does not think we got it right then. There have been several gangland killings in the meantime but we have...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following matter, namely, the MacEntee report and the other reports on collusion, in particular, the systematic failures and cover-up by the Garda Síochána and successive Governments who chose not to respond appropriately to acts of violence undertaken by the British State surrogates in the Twenty-six Counties; the need for the Garda...

Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As somebody who has engaged fully in the Second and Committee Stage debates on the Bill, I am opposed to the proposal. As we teased out this Bill, it became obvious the Minister was not on the sure footing he believed himself to be on. He undertook to re-examine a number of parts of the Bill, including section 24, and stated yesterday he would consider withdrawing it. This shows the...

Written Answers — Drugs Trade: Drugs Trade (4 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken, other than producing more legislation amending his earlier legislation, in anticipation of the expected impact in summer 2007 from the 49% increase in poppy production in Afghanistan in Spring 2006. [12977/07]

Written Answers — Garda Transport: Garda Transport (4 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cars in the Garda fleet; the person who has the contract for maintenance of the fleet; if that contract has been evaluated against value for money; and if it is intended to purchase more Garda cars. [12981/07]

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 101: In page 30, to delete lines 6 to 47 and substitute the following: "30.—Section 2 of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 is repealed.". This section deals with the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998. A jury does not have the opportunity to draw any inferences because there is no jury. We get annual reports on the Act in this House....

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendmentNo. 104: In page 31, to delete lines 3 to 47, to delete pages 32 to 34 and in page 35, to delete lines 1 to 14 and substitute the following: "31.—(1) Section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 is amended by the deletion of subsection (3B).". As far as I recall, we dealt with mandatory sentences for drug barons last year, but we are legislating for them again in section 31....

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not labour the point except to state that I welcome the fact that drug barons and drug dealers are convicted for ten years by judges, albeit infrequently, but I have a problem with taking away the discretion of the Judiciary. The more drug barons and drug dealers who are locked up, the better. However, I have a problem as to whether this will be effective and whether it will...