The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has indicated that it deeply regrets that the Minister for Justice has rendered it necessary for the President to convene a Council of State meeting to discuss the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009.
ICCL Director Mr Mark Kelly said:
“This is a legislative mess of the Minister’s own making, which could have been avoided if he had permitted the Oireachtas to rid his “gangland” bill of measures such as secret detention hearings, which have no place in our law”.