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Written Answers — Departmental Publications: Departmental Publications (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date the Barrington Report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12016/07]

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements for the appointment of an agent to deal with the purchase by the State of a site (details supplied) for €26 million; the amount paid to the agent and other costs associated with the purchase. [12286/07]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the withdrawal of funding from a society (details supplied) means that there is no support facility on the island for community projects and in particular for the DIT degree course in the community centre; and if he will arrange to provide the necessary funding at...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: It is an outrageous process.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: By way of request for information, I raise the issue of what exactly are the instruments that would be considered adequate evidence of title to property. Are we speaking of share certificates or what? As this deals with moneys being paid into a court as a surety or as a condition of recognisance and the possibility of other security being accepted in lieu of such payment, the question...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The only difficulty with that is that while one was handing over a letter from the bank manager, the account could be cleaned out the following day. I would have thought that this referred more to an instrument that might be a share certificate or a document like an old deposit receipt without production of which the bank account could not be cleared.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Essentially, the idea is to leave it up to the court to decide whether the instrument produced is acceptable evidence of title to a particular property.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Does the phrase "other than land or any estate, right or interest in or over land" refer to all property?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Does it refer to houses as well as land?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I move amendment No. 32: In page 10, line 9, after "bail" to insert "and shall otherwise be of good behaviour". I am advised that section 6 of the Bail Act 1997 requires a person, as a condition of bail, not to commit an offence and to be otherwise of good behaviour. Section 9, as framed, seems to remove the latter requirement and I wonder why.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: My difficulty is that the requirement seems to have been weakened. I am not suggesting the requirement to be of good behaviour should be added because it already is included in section 6 of the 1997 Act. It must have cleared all the legal obstacles then obtaining.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: A conviction would be required in order to breach the section as amended.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: The problem is that the accused cannot be brought back before the court on the basis of activities which do not involve good behaviour. According to the new version, he or she cannot be brought back, unless convicted of another offence.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: Such as anti-social behaviour.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I will consider what the Tánaiste has said.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: I strongly urge support for electronic tagging. I have examined documentation since our earlier discussion on this issue, which states electronic tagging works in other countries and it is cost effective. An early release programme, which uses such tagging, is provided for in previous legislation. If I had the option of being held in custody pending trial or being released on bail with a...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: It has also been found in the UK that very few offenders who completed curfew orders breached other community penalties that ran alongside. That is why I would like people to have an open mind regarding such new technology. It would be an addition to the range of instruments available to deal with criminals and significant savings could be made. For example, the cost of home detention...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: On a point of order, we have had an excellent, genuine and constructive debate for the past few hours during which we dealt well with 11 sections out of 51 and 34 amendments out of 156 with no filibustering. What is the Government's proposal for adequately debating the balance of the provisions of the Bill and the amendments?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: We have amendments tabled now.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Jim O'Keeffe: It is a sure recipe for disaster.