Eugene Regan (Fine Gael)

-----and gave many elaborate explanations and clarifications on many of the issues we in Fine Gael raised but if more time had been allowed both in the Lower House and here it would have been possible for the Minister to accept some further amendments tabled, which would have improved the legislation. As the Dáil has gone on summer recess the Minister was set against taking any amendments but there has been some clarification of the legislation. Fine Gael supports this Bill because there is a major problem of gangland crime and criminality. Many innocent people have been killed and many communities have been disrupted and intimidated. If this legislation goes some way to addressing that problem, our work will have been justified.