Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)

I move:

That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to take part in the adoption of the following proposed measure:

a proposal for a Council Framework Decision on the recognition and supervision of suspended sentences, alternative sanctions and conditional sentences.

a copy of which proposed measure was laid before Seanad Éireann on 27 February, 2007.