David Norris (Independent)

Even the fact that the Criminal Justice Bill was introduced in 2004 is instructive as this is 2006. The situation is paralleled by the Disability Bill 2001, which was withdrawn, in that a Bill that was initially 34 pages long has had 340 pages of amendments added to it. The Bill is dwarfed by amendments that constitute ten times its bulk, which clearly suggests that it should be withdrawn and re-presented in an appropriate form. It is daft to have a Bill that is one tenth the size of the Government's amendments before this reviewing Chamber gets into operation.