Seanad debates
Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Criminal Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners) Bill 2001: Second Stage.
It would not be the first time that the courts have found the Government to be on the wrong side of the law and I remind the Minister of the five-nil decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Vincent v. the Attorney General, which emphatically stated that the Government had been making regulation after regulation on fisheries without any legal basis. If nothing else, that highlights the fact that the Government is prepared to stretch its own laws to the limit until it is brought to book by the courts. The Progressive Democrats were very fast in coming forward to tell us that they would be the Government watchdog. It is not they but the courts who are the Government watchdog and we must thank them for it.
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