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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-11-27/10/
27 Nov 2012 -
In September 2008, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children published...The Bill will provide a statutory basis for the existing procedures whereby the Garda criminal records...The scheme of the Bill was considered in detail by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence...system Bill, which will provide for enhanced co-operation in exchanging criminal records information..., the concerns about the relationship between this Bill and the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions)
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-05-24/31/
24 May 2017 -
The last thing I want is the Irish Prison Service or aspects of our criminal justice system to be privatised...However, amendment No. 4 would require that any contracts for the performance of monitoring duties entered...applicant who is seeking bail because the alternative is that he or she will not be granted bail, this amendment...I oppose the amendment for this reason.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-11-20/26/
20 Nov 2012 -
Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter) Unfortunately, I cannot accept the Deputy's...amendment....debate on Committee Stage, the Data Protection Acts apply to all data stored by the bureau, including criminal...The Data Protection Commissioner has also been consulted on the provisions contained in the Bill and
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1993-06-03/7/
3 Jun 1993 -
Minister for Justice (Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn) Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh....I see no justification for maintaining suicide as a criminal offence and I hope to see this Bill decriminalising...My aim in introducing this Bill is to take the act of suicide out of the scope of the criminal law and...Section 3 is a straightforward repeal of section 9 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Amendment Act..., 1871, which was amended by section 85 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936.
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Debate: Select Sub-Committee On Children And Youth Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_sub-committee_on_children_and_youth_affairs/2015-07-02/2/
2 Jul 2015 -
that I accepted during the passage of the Bill in the Seanad....In the Seanad, following consultation with the Minister for Justice and Equality, I accepted an amendment...Amendment No. 5, which I have brought forward, proposes an amendment to section 143 of the Act to provide...I will continue, however, to have close co-operation with the Minister for Justice and Equality on criminal...justice matters relating to children.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-06-28/7/
28 Jun 1995 -
children and step-children violated by their adoptive father or stepfather are not treated as being the victims...has sexual intercourse with, say, his 17-year old adopted daughter is not deemed to have committed a criminal...to the Bill....Therefore, an essential part of amendment to the Bill is that we deal with that procedural aspect of...There is a need to examine the crime of sexual abuse, but I think the Law Reform Commission got it wrong
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-03-25/20/
25 Mar 1998 -
If an action is unlawful it is of itself a criminal act, so it does not matter if the victim has consented...No person can licence another to commit a crime....Specifically, it is imperative that the law on bouncers be amended soon....I compliment Deputy Farrelly on introducing the Bill....Previous speakers have applauded the Bill but it is disappointing that the Government has not seen fit
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-02-11/3/
11 Feb 2021 -
Minister of State at the Department of Justice (Deputy James Browne) I move: "That the Bill be now...The current law on counterfeiting is contained in Part 5 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences...Department of Finance officials have been actively engaged with the Department of Justice, the Central...It sets out the amendments to the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001 to give full effect...Sections 29 to 31, inclusive, provide for consequential amendments to other Acts arising from the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-02-21/3/
21 Feb 2014 -
Deputy Catherine Murphy I thank Deputy Shane Ross for bringing forward this Bill....In the debate on Second Stage of the Twenty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration...) Bill in September 2011 the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, said: The Irish...There are things about the Bill I would like to change but it needs at least to get to Committee Stage...judge clearly indicated a considerable lack of understanding in a rape case and the impact it had on a victim
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-05-19/4/
19 May 1993 -
Post on 13 September 1993 raised two issues which the Minister needs to address in the context of this amendment...That raises the question as to whether it was the widespread practice of Ministers for Justice in the...I accept, for reasons of tackling crime and protecting the security of the State, it is not possible...having taken transcripts of conversation from the Department of Justice when he left office....newspaper article stated: "when Doherty left office he took stuff with him out of the Department of Justice
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-02-13/8/
13 Feb 2019 -
The more one reads into it, the more one realises that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice...I think it will be an important opportunity to stand in solidarity with a family that deserves justice...I ask as many Members as possible to come to the House for the debate on the Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative...Periods) Bill 2018 if they are free to do so.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-03-06/20/
6 Mar 1996 -
O'Malley I am pleased to see this Bill before the Dáil....regrettable that the Government and the Minister for Justice, who had made such heavy weather of her...measure that is so obviously needed, that is well prepared and which, if it has any defects, is open to amendment...Quite some time ago I was Minister for Justice and I recall the atmosphere of the times, both inside...The present Minister for Justice, whatever woes she may feel have befallen her, finds herself in the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-11-28/22/
28 Nov 2017 -
an arrestable offence would be problematic, as arrestable offences are by their nature more serious crimes...disproportionate departure from the intention of the Oireachtas to provide for the swift administration of justice...While the intention is understandable, this is an overly broad amendment for this Bill, which is focused...Aggravating circumstances for criminal offences are not usually listed in statute....to that Act would not be appropriate to be dealt with in this Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1973-07-25/11/
25 Jul 1973 -
This Bill does three very good things....So much for the actual text of the Bill....As I have said, for a Bill so short it contains three very important and very welcome amendments to the...criminal procedure....It is a long time since we had a White Paper from the Department of Justice—the early 1960s.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2013-07-02/14/
2 Jul 2013 -
I compliment the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on its recently published report and...The amendments made by the Dáil, particularly the amendment to section 4, are very positive....alarmed to read during the week the comments of PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggot on the proposed national crime...agency in the North to combat crime, including trafficking, across the Border....The Chief Constable said lives would be put at risk by curtailing the powers of the national crime agency
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-04-21/42/
21 Apr 1971 -
charges involving various types of offences including inter alia malicious damage, larceny and other crimes...It is, of course, the general common law rule that a crime cannot be committed unless there is mens rea...advised that no such contrary intention is expressed or implied in either section 2 or section 3 of the Bill...possibility of a bona fide claim to ownership by a person charged with an offence under section 2 or 3, the Bill...Claim of right is only one of many grounds of exemption from criminal responsibility which exist at common
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-10-07/4/
7 Oct 1999 -
Ryan I too welcome the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Bill....I cannot understand how an intelligent woman can argue against this man being charged with crimes he...Could we charge people who committed crimes prior to the implementation of this Bill?...Whereas Pinochet has been caught, what can the UN do about crimes such as this?...I welcome the Bill and ask the Minister to respond to my point about Pinochet.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1991-11-13/20/
13 Nov 1991 -
The Criminal Damage Bill, 1990, is before the House....One of those is the Solicitors (Amendment) Bill, which I circulated at the end of last month....There will be a Bill to provide for the confiscation of the proceeds of crime, to provide for the seizure...The Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill is under preparation to amend the law on criminal insanity....The Juvenile Justice Bill is a very important example.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1923-04-12/26/
12 Apr 1923 -
If we are to have any sort of fair administration of justice in the country, and if we are to have judges...a crime that involves a six months' sentence is a crime sufficiently heinous to disqualify a member...The thing should be decided automatically by the Justice dealing with the offender brought before him...Now, it would have to be a very gross miscarriage of justice if, within 30 days after being sentenced...feeling of the members of the Government when they considered the question of the acceptance of this amendment
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2010-01-14/2/
14 Jan 2010 -
the Minister of State has not seen it, I would ask that he look at it before the completion of the Bill...difference in the current section 42, dealing with the reporting of money laundering, and section 57 of the Criminal...Justice Act 1994....An amendment has not been tabled on Committee Stage but that is not sufficient reason for this to be...In the event of there being merit in the point made, I would support any amendment the Minister of State
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-09-03/6/
3 Sep 1998 -
Costello I move amendment No. 17: In page 12, subsection (1), lines 38 to 40, to delete ", unless...He has now further committed himself to implement a Fine Gael amendment which sought an annual review...in the forthcoming Criminal Justice Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2014 -
Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn I welcome Deputy Collins's Bill and its aim of making the Garda Commissioner...Sinn Féin will support the passage of this Bill to Committee Stage and we will seek to work with Deputy...We also propose that the crime and security branch of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces Directorate...and Equality, applied by An Garda Síochána and benchmarked by a new criminal justice inspectorate which...The criminal justice inspectorate we propose is based on what is in place in the North.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1961-08-09/5/
9 Aug 1961 -
twice in this Bill....and amend these Bills and comes to examine this provision, he probably will find that it would not work...When it comes to addressing the judge in court in the tense atmosphere of a criminal trial, when it falls...Act one finds that all proceedings, whether civil or criminal, which were pending were transferred into...could have no doubt that all pending proceedings, civil and criminal, were effectively transferred to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-27/5/
27 Oct 2005 -
I also strongly support amendment No. 14 and commend Deputy Cuffe for proposing amendment No. 12....McGrath receives the full support of Members of the Oireachtas to bring this miscarriage of justice to...is talking about human rights and the rights of prisoners, one must not lose sight of the rights of victims...It is vital that the voices of the victims are heard....The victims of that atrocity are constantly pleading with the Government and the British Prime Minister
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-02-05/3/
5 Feb 1976 -
Cooney Senator Robinson's amendment is acceptable to us in a redrafted form....to take a cut-off point and we decided that three months represented the type of seriousness of the crime...from serving on a jury and would not denote a person who would be sufficiently biased or of sufficient criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1946-02-01/3/
1 Feb 1946 -
the Parties in this House, who have the advantage of better advice than I have, to see that suitable amendments...In my opinion, that is the very same as having the devil as a justice and holding the court in hell....independent person appointed to deal with such appeals, such as an ordinary High Court judge or the Chief Justice...of which they will throw unfortunate victims on the roadside....last night what provision it is proposed to make for the unfortunate people who are going to be the victims
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-11-26/9/
26 Nov 2020 -
Moynihan, who spoke on the Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill...2018, Committee Stage of which will be taken next Wednesday....Amendments will be tabled, including one on the issue of the citizenship fee that Senator Moynihan mentioned...2018....I have also engaged with the Minister of Justice on the Bill and she has made some positive noises about
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1990-06-21/5/
21 Jun 1990 -
I compliment the Minister for Justice on bringing this Bill before the Oireachtas....Even though the 1964 Criminal Justice Act abolished the death penalty for all but a small number of very...Indeed, as the Minister for Justice stated, our experience since the passing of the 1964 Criminal Justice...of which they were victims....I compliment the Minister for Justice again on bringing forward this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-01-27/9/
27 Jan 2021 -
Deputy Peadar Tóibín I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the...Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences )Act 2001 to make specific provision for sentencing for certain...I thank my colleagues Deputies Canney and Verona Murphy for co-signing this Bill....It shows that there is a viable market for criminal enterprises....I have conducted a good bit of research into this criminal market in recent years.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1974-07-10/32/
10 Jul 1974 -
One amendment was accepted much to my surprise and pleasure....and now we have the Minister for Justice to give the Bill the kiss of death from the point of view of...Nevertheless, it will be interesting to hear the views of the Minister for Justice and I am sure they...I placed my amendments and there was a wide acceptance of them....I do not know how many people went to the Minister for Justice or the Attorney General but, in view of
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Debate: Special Committee On The Judicial Separation And Family Law Reform Bill,1987
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/special_committee_on_the_judicial_separation_and_family_law_reform_bill_1987/1988-09-22/33/
22 Sep 1988 -
Ms Colley I move amendment No. 112: In page 15, subsection (1), line 4, before "Proceedings" to insert...33 and the effort to make the proceedings as informal as possible, consistent with administration of justice...proceedings before the District Court", under the various Acts listed in the section, "the district justice...I also added in at the end of the amendment the words "shall be heard separately from other proceedings...separation of family law proceedings, in particular in areas outside Dublin, as between contract cases, criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-07-03/35/
3 Jul 2019 -
Deputy Charles Flanagan I move amendment No. 37: In page 16, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the..., present an undue risk to the safety and security of members of the public (including the relevant victim...any, to which rules under section 2 of the Act of 1960, made before the coming into operation of the Criminal...Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners) Act 2003, applied, (f) the risk of the parole applicant committing...There was a section in the original Bill on giving comprehensive information, that is, section 18(2)(
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2004-07-07/9/
7 Jul 2004 -
We had a good discussion on this Bill on Committee Stage yesterday....launched by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform....I acknowledge that the Minister of State is particularly active in the Department of Justice, Equality...State knows that when this matter came to public attention some years ago, the Government told the victims...clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin diocese so that the Government can honour its commitment to those victims
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-09-30/10/
30 Sep 2004 -
Designation means that we must be satisfied with the criminal justice system in the sentencing state....Deputy Broughan gave a general welcome to the Bill and indicated he would be putting forward amendments...McGrath got justice or not....The Minister will put forward appropriate amendments on Committee Stage....The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform drew attention to the safeguards of the Bill in his
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1979-07-18/6/
18 Jul 1979 -
Fitzgerald) The Dangerous Substances Act was passed in 1972 to amend and up-date the law relating to...The 1972 Act could not be used to control the criminal use of explosives....An undertaking was given at the time of the passing of the Act that it would not be used in the criminal...leaving the legal position with respect to explosives as it is for the present, that is the Minister for Justice...I commend the Bill to the House.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-03-09/5/
9 Mar 2018 -
We did not have a Bill. We did not have the so-called explanatory memorandum....We got the Bill online at 10.15 a.m., and several hours later we were expected to deal with this legislation...These speakers included victims of rape, women who were conceived in rape and others....We need that Chamber because legislation is rushed through here and this Bill is evidence of that....It has admitted that, yet Ms Justice Laffoy is happy to say that everything is okay.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-03-20/10/
20 Mar 2018 -
All of us must make a difficult decision on the eighth amendment and we will all agonise to some degree...One tries to put oneself in a position where a daughter is the victim of rape or a fatal foetal abnormality...face this, we will fail the hundreds of thousands of women who have left this country stigmatised as criminals...I will support the repeal of the eighth amendment and I would be delighted to take part in the subsequent
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1990-06-06/4/
6 Jun 1990 -
Despite the fact that it has taken so much time to get this Bill concluded, there were certain amendments...To have the Bill rushed through without careful consideration would have been improper....Hopefully, these amendments will be agreed unanimously....Any hardened criminal or any person who intends to commit a serious crime, such as a bank robbery, will...All in all, I welcome the amendments and I trust that this House will endorse the support for this Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-06-06/3/
6 Jun 1984 -
Bill....In amendment No. 21, no offence new to our law is being created....Section 7 (4) of the Criminal Law Act, 1976, has a similar provision: Any person who obstructs or attempts...consider that that is necessary and it is not provided for in the Litter Act, the Road Traffic Act or the Criminal...but it is certainly a very strong argument that the higher the maximum fine available to a district justice
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-01-31/3/
31 Jan 1996 -
interest to commentators on the report of the Law Reform Commission asking when will the Minister for Justice...What it emphasises is not that we need a constitutional amendment, to put behind bars people charged...with criminal offences, but that there is a series of alternatives available to tackle the difficulties...justice system but because of the cumbersome nature of our legal procedures, some of which are a throwback...released early from prison have during the course of the so-called temporary release committed other crimes
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-06-14/32/
14 Jun 2016 -
Justice (Amendment) Act....If we really wanted to deal with crime and organised crime this is where we would start....The Special Criminal Court is in part at the heart of some of these emergency powers....Court to include organised crime....for example, dealt with and initiated the Criminal Justice (Joint Investigations Team) Act, which has
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1923-07-30/8/
30 Jul 1923 -
order and ordinary law in the public mind—an evil that will last long beyond the six months of this Bill...the next six perilous months; for the enactment evidently contemplates the capture of a multitude of criminals...But no change has been made in the Bill as before us, and no may has been permitted as regards the last...It lies within the view of any plain believer in accustomed justice....The amendments I have suggested in this Section have been entirely with regard to this desire to free
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2013-07-24/11/
24 Jul 2013 -
divisions and which heard appeals from the High Court in all civil cases and cases of serious crime....Justice Ronan Keane are persuasive....He continued: There would appear to be no necessity to amend the Constitution in order to provide for...I commend the Minister's reforming zeal but I am not sure about all of the proposed amendments of the...It has been said in relation to the composition of any court of appeal that the experience in criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-10-15/18/
15 Oct 1996 -
to put the Minister out of whatever minor agony she might be in by saying that I do not oppose this Bill...and this proposed amendment....They were not addicted to anything worse and they were not seen in a criminal context in those times....Justice Finlay, in Ryan v....notable recent case in which the High Court granted bail to an accused person who had a previous serious criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-07-09/3/
9 Jul 2009 -
of Business is No. a 1, Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Bill...2009 [Seanad] — Second and Subsequent Stages; No. b 1, Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 —...Amendments from the Seanad; No. 1, Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009 [Seanad] — Second and Subsequent...Stages; No. 23, Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009 — Committee and Remaining Stages (resumed)....to the Seanad amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Health and Children
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-02-01/12/
1 Feb 2021 -
As the Minister of State outlined, the Bill is significant legislation for tracking money laundering....Money laundering is a crime that helps serious criminals and terrorists to function....Criminals are always alert to opportunities to exploit the EU's borders....I understand that many amendments will be discussed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-10-17/130/
17 Oct 2002 -
Board Person Appointed Method of Selection National Crime Council Dr....Justice Frederick Morris Appointed by the Minister on the basis that he is the most suitable person...Assistant Film Censor Tom Fitzgerald Appointed by the Minister (section 2 of the Censorship of Films (Amendment...) Act, 1992) Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Dr....from various backgrounds representing community interests, including the Chief Executive Officer of Victim
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-03-11/11/
11 Mar 1993 -
amendments....Unless our criminal justice system is a deterrent against crime, it does not serve its function....The power to reduce fines should not be vested in the Minister for Justice....The amendment is not unreasonable....to one's house and advertise it in the newspapers it is not unreasonable that a fine imposed for a criminal
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1967-04-05/7/
5 Apr 1967 -
O'Quigley I move amendment No. 5....on various occasions I have taken exception to the phrase "is satisfied that" occurring in various Bills...Justice Gavan Duffy, and the Supreme Court later, held that the phrase "is satisfied that" involved a...It surprised me, therefore, to find that in this section—section 8—where we have a justice of the court...I am aware that there are provisions in our criminal code to enable the Attorney General to send somebody
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-07-03/50/
3 Jul 1998 -
provisions of the conventions of protocols to be seized, I made inquiries and established that under the Criminal...Justice Act, 1994, there is a possibility of confiscation....Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, 1996, it is possible to make an order freezing specified assets....Members who have contributed to the enactment of this important legislation on behalf of combatants and victims
