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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-26/42/
26 May 1970 -
"That the Bill be now read a Second Time."...The main object of the Bill is to give formal legal sanction to the "open" centre at Shanganagh, County...To return to the Bill....Patrick's is reduced under the provisions of section 6 of this Bill....I commend the Bill to the House and ask that it be given a Second Reading.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-06-12/24/
12 Jun 1990 -
subsection (3), line 43, after "1960", to insert "(including that section as applied by section 4 of the Prisons...Act, 1970)"....By virtue of section 4 of the Prisons Act, 1970, the power to grant temporary release in the case of...in places of detention provided under the 1970 Act....tabled to make it clear that the restrictions as to temporary release specified in section 5 (3) of the Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
O'Higgins ——were put into prison at the same time, that the place might become overcrowded and there...be juveniles, so that it seemed to me that it was contemplated in relation to the Criminal Justice Bill...job and our job to see to it that in our legislation we say what we mean and we do not put into the Bill...If it is not the intention of the Minister to have the power to transfer prisoners of this kind to military...custody let him be quite clear about it and provide it in the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-07-30/4/
30 Jul 1970 -
sent to prison....If you put your foot on the doorstep you are committing the act of entry under this Bill as drafted....The milkman delivering milk could be sent to prison for a month....If a doctor calls to see a patient he can be sent to prison....Vincent de Paul Society calls, he can be sent to prison.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-10/6/
10 Jun 1970 -
is a section being set up in Mountjoy to keep the 19 to 21 age group separate from the other adult prisoners
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
For many years the Minister has had power to transfer as between different prisons....The Minister has always had power to direct the transfer of prisoners from ordinary prisons like Limerick...and Mountjoy to what used be known as the convict prison in Portlaoise.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-27/3/
27 May 1970 -
Bruton I was, yes, but I believe that when this House is considering the Prisons Bill they should have...to ensure these reports would have been available to Members before they were asked to consider this Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-26/42/
26 May 1970 -
when I first discovered this but apparently it is much easier for people to get employment on leaving prison
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-12-15/10/
15 Dec 1970 -
It is a pity that in this year of 1970 our nation will suffer because important legislation was not put...Government are the people who must give a lead, must prepare the legislation and bring in the appropriate Bill...good but there has been an unnecessarily long delay in including, in this session of Parliament, a Bill...to rehabilitate the first offenders and the younger prisoners....past year where farmers' co-operatives have suffered, in one case to the extent of £400,000, by these 1970
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
O'Malley With regard to the 19 to 21 age group, there are two courses open under this Bill: I can transfer...contained in section 6 for some time because we are at present preparing a special section in Mountjoy Prison
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
O'Higgins No, but if he does and if it contains a section authorising the transfer of civilian prisoners
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-27/3/
27 May 1970 -
Section 4 of this Bill will apply for the time being the 1947 rules to the new institution of Shanganagh...it and not being made use of as mere manual workers in the prison....Rule 12 provides for the classification of prisoners on entry to the prison....As I said earlier, we should open up all our prisons and the question of opening up our prisons to community...Section 6 of the Bill proposes to reduce the maximum age for persons who are remanded or committed to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
Is it constitutional for the Minister to direct the transfer of prisoners?...If a judge sentences a prisoner to St....Patrick's the Minister is surely acting unconstitutionally if he directs the transfer of that prisoner
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-11-24/41/
24 Nov 1970 -
the Deputies on the Labour benches accused me of cowardice because I did not make provision in this Bill...for putting workers in prison.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
Bruton There is a possibility that under this section a prisoner who is originally sentenced to Saint...could, by a rather devious process of the application of different subsections here, find himself in prison...In other words, the Minister could by application of these subsections get him into prison, whereas he...I have in mind here, first of all, subsection (b) (i) which provides that a prisoner may be sent "from...Under subsection (a) (ii) he may be transferred "from such a place to a prison."
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-06-27/8/
27 Jun 2013 -
Deputy Simon Harris I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill....was a teenager growing up in Greystones, attending a presentation by the then governor of Mountjoy Prison...population in Ireland has increased by 400% since 1970....Deputy Clare Daly is right in regard to the socioeconomic linkage with our prison population....I welcome the Bill. The Government has taken a progressive approach to these issues.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-10/6/
10 Jun 1970 -
O'Higgins At any rate, whether the Minister's stay in office be long or short this Bill is intended...As far as section 2 of the Bill is concerned—I do not intend making a Committee discussion of this—I...Minister may, for the purpose of promoting the rehabilitation of offenders, provide places other than prisons...As the Bill stands there is authority under this section for the Minister to provide alternative places...However, if the Minister were to have any bad thoughts about returning to the Criminal Justice Bill he
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-26/42/
26 May 1970 -
Bruton It has been suggested to me that in some prisons throughout the world the prisoners do not maintain...I do not know if this applies to our prisons but I would welcome an assurance on this matter....While the average stay of prisoners might be only four months, many of them return again for another...I should like to know how much time per day is spent by the average prisoner in being trained....What facilities are there for those people in the prisons?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
not want to bring it in until I am in a position to keep the 19 to 21 group apart from the remaining prisoners...The work of providing a particular section of Mountjoy Prison for the occupation of the 19 to 21 group...been completed but not earlier than that, because I do not want to put them in with the ordinary adult prisoners
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-10/6/
10 Jun 1970 -
Patrick's or from other prisons....does not exist in the same close sense as it exists in other prisons....The second object—and I regard this also as a principle—of the Bill is the proposal to reduce the upper...Patrick's Institution must be sentenced to prison....This is one of the weaknesses I see in the Bill.
