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Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: There has been substantial lobbying although not by registrars. As they are State officials, it would be highly unusual if registrars were to make representations, as alleged. However, to say there has not been lobbying or that representations were not made would be doing the people concerned a disservice. Many of them are genuine in their belief that an appropriate amendment to protect...

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Nobody suggested it came from a registrar.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I accept what was said but I ask the Minister to convince the House on this issue. Many of my party's backbenchers contacted me about this issue, many of whom hold very genuine views on it. I ask the Minister to reaffirm, if he can, that however benign the intentions may be, it is not possible under current law to accommodate that view. It is important that no doubt be left on this issue.

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the details of the Garda recruitment programme currently underway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28669/10]

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I remind the Minister that it is almost a year since, in response to media speculation, he, along with a number of his Government colleagues, stated that regardless of the state of the public finances or the depth of the recession front line Garda services would not be affected. In the context of the retirement last year of an unprecedented number of gardaí of varying degrees of rank,...

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I have asked about the Minister's commitments.

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: The Minister is conveniently abdicating responsibility.

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: They were in the system.

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: The Minister is responsible for the provision of front line services.

Garda Recruitment (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: In the context of the new panel and new recruitment campaign, what is the status of those who have already passed their examinations and who, in some cases, have completed the interview process and whose position is on hold owing to the embargo? Where stand these people in so far as the panel is concerned? I accept what the Minister had to say in regard to garda levels. Where stands any...

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: That is a weak argument.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: The Government has run it into the ground.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: He was at the Cabinet table.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to address prison overcrowding in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28667/10]

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: We on this side of the House have raised this issue continually over the past 18 months. The crisis was flagged to the Minister and I remind him of his comments in September 2009 on the publication of a most damning report on the Irish prison system by Judge Michael Reilly, the inspector of prisons. Judge Reilly spoke about prisons being dangerous and unsafe. In response, the Minister said...

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I asked the Minister to deal with this crisis now because it is deteriorating on a monthly basis.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I would not call it peddling.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: One prisoner said that to the Minister.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: As a brief supplementary, I say for the record of the House-----

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Charles Flanagan: -----I find it astounding that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should come to the House and say he met a prisoner who said, "Minister, everything is all right here", that he should accept that and place it on the record of this House over and above the comments of Mr. Justice Michael Reilly who stated last September that the situation in Mountjoy was unsafe and dangerous. I...