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Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Charles Flanagan: ...duty of any State is the safety and security of its citizens. In this regard Fine Gael has never been found wanting. It faced down decades of threats of a most brutal type from Sinn Féin and the IRA and the broader republican movement. When Sinn Féin speaks about law and order and the rule of law it brings to mind the loyal and dedicated members of An Garda...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Charles Flanagan: ...beginning on 30th June, 2020 and ending on 29th June, 2021. The House will be aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the Real IRA in Omagh. Thankfully, through the efforts of the democratic people North and South of this island and, indeed, the ongoing watchfulness of An Garda Síochána and their...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...for taking these two important motions this afternoon. The House will be aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the barbaric murder by the Real IRA of 29 innocent people in Omagh in August 1998. That act of depravity was an affront to humanity and democracy, and it lingers long in our memory. This legislation is a robust and...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...beginning on the 30th June 2019 and ending on the 29th June 2020. The House will be aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the barbaric murder by the Real IRA of 29 innocent people at Omagh in August 1998. That atrocity demanded this response from the State as a necessary and wholly proportionate measure to defend the desire of the vast...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 and Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motions (14 Jun 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I thank the House for taking these two motions. The House will be aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the barbaric murder by the Real IRA of 29 innocent people at Omagh in August 1998, 20 years ago. That atrocity demanded this legislative response from the State as a necessary and wholly proportionate measure to defend the desire of the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...30 June 2018 and ending on 29 June 2019. I wish to share time with Deputy Brophy. The House will recall that the 1998 Act was a necessary and wholly proportionate response to the barbaric murder by the Real IRA of 29 innocent people at Omagh in August 1998, almost 20 years ago. These robust provisions of the criminal law play an important role in enabling the Garda authorities and the...

Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...collapse of the State. Today, officials are thinly stretched. A legacy of dealing with terrorism and serious crime has had an effect. I refer, in particular, to the period when the State was under serious threat from the Provisional IRA and other terrorists. What in modern times might be seen as secretive or siloed was at the height of the Troubles, no doubt, a necessary state of...

Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...European Union. I am sure we will have an opportunity to resume debate on these important issues. Deputy Breathnach made reference to the security assessment of the status of the Provisional IRA. The assessments relate to security issues and not to any political conclusions that might be drawn from them from time to time but it is important that those who have been committed to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Charles Flanagan: The recent assessment report makes for sober reading. It states that all the main paramilitary groups operating during the period of the Troubles remain in existence, including the provisional IRA and a number of loyalist groups and organisations. The assessment adds that the structures of the provisional IRA remain in existence, but in a much reduced form, and that the leadership of the...

Northern Ireland: Statements (9 Feb 2010)

Charles Flanagan: ...posed by dissidents on both sides of the Border, a threat that historically has grown out of the political situation in the North. I welcome the announcement yesterday by the INLA, the Official IRA and the loyalist south east Antrim brigade that their illegal weapons have been destroyed as part of the decommissioning process. These groups have recognised that political dialogue achieves...

Operational Co-operation on EU Internal Security: Motion. (20 Jan 2010)

Charles Flanagan: ...agenda of its meetings. Experts have been warning in recent months that there has been a realignment of terrorists in Northern Ireland with a new group emerging from hardliners among the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA. Between 2007 and 2009 there were more than 750 bomb alerts in the North - an average of one each day. Although nobody has been killed by the RIRA and the CIRA since the...

Garda Deployment. (22 Sep 2009)

Charles Flanagan: ...hands, and an upsurge of dissident republican activity along the Border. There was an improvised bomb in County Donegal on 10 September that was made safe by Army bomb disposal experts. The Real IRA planted two pipe bombs in Derry on 11 September. Óglaigh na hÉireann was behind a 600 lbs bomb that was defused at Forkhill, County Armagh on 8 September, the command wire of which was...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2009)

Charles Flanagan: ...the Act in question seeks to tackle would not only be appropriate, but helpful. We are well aware that the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was introduced in the wake of the Real IRA atrocity in Omagh which resulted in the death of 29 people, including a mother pregnant with twins. This month, in a landmark judgment, the High Court in Belfast declared that Seamus McKenna,...

Garda Operations. (3 Mar 2009)

Charles Flanagan: ...and similar matters? What contingency plans have been in place to deal with tiger kidnapping? When this State was under threat and attack from terrorist organisations and the Provisional IRA in the 1970s and 1980s, it always held firm and did not buckle under pressure. What action is the Minister now taking, or does he propose to take, to disabuse criminal gangsters of the notion that...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (19 Jun 2008)

Charles Flanagan: ...to a farm in Oram, County Monaghan, where he was beaten to death by up to 15 masked men using iron bars and nail-studded cudgels. Mr. Quinn's family say the attack was carried out by members of the IRA because of a personal feud between Mr. Quinn and certain south Armagh republicans. Sinn Féin has been alone among nationalist parties in maintaining that it stemmed from a row over diesel...

Killing of Paul Quinn: Statements (7 Feb 2008)

Charles Flanagan: .... It is clear that the Mafia-like situation that existed prior to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 persists at a certain level a decade later. The factors which created the vacuum and allowed an IRA dominated subculture to develop in south Armagh are well known. However, we are supposed to have moved on from the tragic era of the Troubles. The Good Friday Agreement was overwhelmingly...

Crime Prevention. (13 Dec 2007)

Charles Flanagan: ...last year we had the highest number of murders caused by illegal firearms in the history of the State. On a specific matter, it appears many of these illegal weapons were used by the provisional IRA in Northern Ireland in the past. What steps is the Minister taking to intervene in terms of the illegal importation of weapons formerly used in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by members of the...