Results 18,661-18,680 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Justice; Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners granted temporary release from custodial institutions in April 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19717/10]
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister's reply is yet another letdown for the House. He claims it would involve too much effort for his officials and himself to provide the House with the important information on how many prisoners were on temporary release in April. It is also an important question when one considers the current prison crisis. That the Minister does not know or even bother to find out how many...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister is the last person to see the prison system crumbling all around him.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: We did not.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: That was in the last century.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Yes and the Curragh facility.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister wasted â¬40 million of taxpayers' money for the Thornton Hall site. Our prisons are dominated by gang bosses who continue to operate from behind prison bars. Mobile telephones and drugs are rampant in the prisons in spite of the Minister's repeated assurances that they would be tackled. The Minister cannot inform the House how many prisoners are on temporary release at any one...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister has already wasted â¬40 million of taxpayers' money on Thornton Hall which is now no more than a white elephant. He promised a slimmed-down and phased-in programme for Thornton Hall.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: There is a crisis in our prison system yet the Minister, regrettably, has no plan to resolve it.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Why did he not say that at the beginning of his reply?
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: No, that is not the average. The Minister is massaging the figures.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The figure is actually 16%.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister has abused this facility.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I am not. There is a crisis in the prison system yet the Minister has no understanding of it.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister does not even engage with the probation and welfare service.
- Tribunals of Inquiry (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Justice; Equality and Law Reform the number of times the Smithwick Tribunal has met in public session to date; and the cost of the tribunal to date [19718/10]
- Intoxicating Liquor (National Conference Centre) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: An issue arose on the publication of this legislation as to whether it is the National Conference Centre or the National Convention Centre. The documentation and most recent brochures of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport refer to it as the National Convention Centre, yet the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform takes the view that it is the National Conference Centre....
- Intoxicating Liquor (National Conference Centre) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Why does the Title of the Bill not accord with the title of the centre having regard to the fact that, as the Minister said in response to Deputy Rabbitte, the licence pertains exclusively to the convention centre? The licence will presumably issue to Joe Bloggs as nominee of the company that is authorised and has an estate or interest under the lease or agreement to run the National...
- Intoxicating Liquor (National Conference Centre) Bill 2010: Second Stage (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: We are entering the record books this morning in a number of ways. We have another intoxicating liquor Bill and I dare say it is the shortest Bill this House has been asked to consider for some time. It contains a mere three sections. I would like to commence my brief contribution with a quotation mentioned in Constance Cassidy's book, Cassidy on the Licensing Acts: It states: The...
- Intoxicating Liquor (National Conference Centre) Bill 2010: Second Stage (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister had first better get the immigration Bill out of the way.