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Justice Bills timetable

Summary

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn objects to Friday committee sittings for the Civil Debt Bill and seeks dates for several justice Bills; the Taoiseach offers to respond in detail after receiving the list.

The Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill is being forced upon the Select Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality and Defence this Friday. It is highly unusual that we must sit on a Friday to enforce the Government's will because it will obviously bring it forward for Report Stage next week. I want to bring a number of justice Bills to the Taoiseach's attention and I want an answer as to when they will be brought before the House. I think his behaviour is shameful. The Bills are the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill, the Garda Síochána (policing authority and miscellaneous provisions) Bill to set up a new Garda authority, the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill, the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, the international protection Bill, the mediation Bill, the judicial council Bill and the Legal Services Regulation Bill. None of these Bills has come through the Houses. Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting on these Bills, but the Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill is being brought through before the summer recess to enforce Irish Water's authority. When will all these Bills, some of which we have been waiting for for years to come through the Houses, finally get dealt with? The Taoiseach's behaviour is outrageous.

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Enda Kenny The Taoiseach Fine Gael

Sometimes when members of Deputy Mac Lochlainn's party sit here for five hours and delay time it is not in keeping with good conduct either. Some of the Bills mentioned have been through the Seanad, some are awaiting Committee Stage in the Dáil and some are not published. If the Deputy please gives me the list he read out I will respond to him in detail.

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