Seanad debates

Wednesday, 22 October 2003

Criminal Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners) Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages.

 

There must be a consistent standard. The difficulties caused by not having a consistent standard are considerable. In any legislation, the court will view a corpus of legislation as a consistent code, taking both earlier and subsequent legislation into account. I do not accept that it is practical to have one standard of draughtsmanship for a Bill and a different standard for an earlier Act. There simply must be consistency in legislation that amends previous legislation. This is our central issue regarding this amendment.

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