Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The legislation is necessary to prevent the collapse of trials such the Keane trial, in which gangland criminals intimidated people to avoid paying for what they did. As I said, I wish we did not need a Special Criminal Court, but we do. Therefore, it is incumbent on all of us, as legislators, to ensure we have the most effective criminal justice system possible and to give the Garda the personnel, equipment and everything else it needs to fight these crimes.