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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-27/3/
27 May 1970 -
Bruton The Minister referred to the necessity for a punitive element in our prisons system.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
Patrick's to a prison he does so after consultation with the visiting committee at St....way in consultation with expert bodies of this nature and whether this needs to be written into the Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-11/4/
11 Jun 1970 -
I want to talk very briefly about three matters, two of which are very relevant to the Bill under discussion...and prison reform....This is true of all our prison institutions, especially in Mountjoy....Department of Justice to go into the question of penal reform at any deep level although I welcome this Bill...I look to the results of this Bill as providing at least a beginning.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
Patrick's is not a prison.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
The only qualification is on the words "provide places other than prisons".
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
Bruton With regard to this reference to the application of the existing prison rules and the visiting...committees, I made a number of points on the Second Reading about the prison rules which I feel are...social work who would perhaps be able to adopt a more critical view towards the administration of the prisons...The parts of their reports published in the annual reports of prisons have been so uncritical as to be...adopting the positive, critical role which visiting committees are supposed to adopt in relation to prison
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1972-05-24/25/
24 May 1972 -
amendment is that we believe the Minister could have got out of this very easily by designating the prison...in which these people are being kept as being a prison under the Prisons Acts, 1826 to 1970.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-27/3/
27 May 1970 -
Up to now I have been talking about the institutional treatment of prisoners....The cost of keeping a prisoner in an institution works out at about £800 or £900 a year....I am afraid that the visiting committees to prisons are not as critical as they should be or, perhaps...These committees are independent bodies; they are the watchdogs for the community on the prisons....I asked a question yesterday about the prison reports and it is a fact that the prison reports for 1967
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
If the Deputy refers to subsection (1), the first line of paragraph (a) refers to the transfer of a prisoner—that...is, a person committed to prison....If one reads subparagraphs (a) (i) and (a) (ii) one sees it is possible to transfer from a prison to...an open institution and from an open institution either to a prison, to Saint Patrick's Institution or
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
Section 17 (3) of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914 gives a court power to commit direct to prisons
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
open to the possibility of experimenting in this area of providing small centres and providing open prisons...As the Minister pointed out we have a relatively small prison population and one which is not as dangerous
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-06-17/4/
17 Jun 1970 -
there will be a necessity for a very definite amount of screening and selectivity in deciding on what prisoners...In other words, there will be factors other than the sex and age of the prisoners which must be taken...Minister should be entitled in making his regulations not merely to have regard to the age and sex of prisoners...should be entitled to set out guidelines which could be acted on as regards the general suitability of prisoners...conduct and demeanour and should also be entitled to have regard to the question of whether or not the prisoner
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1970-07-22/5/
22 Jul 1970 -
rise from about 13,000 houses a year in 1968-69 to between 15,000 and 17,000 houses a year by the mid-1970s...houses 1,249 square feet would be paid only if the house or flat is commenced on or before 31st August, 1970...dwellings with floor areas exceeding 116 square metres be put back from 31st August to 31st December, 1970...authority dwellings an offence, for which the penalty, on conviction, will be a fine not exceeding £50 or a prison...I commend the Bill to the House.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/35/
3 Jun 1970 -
Justice, for the purpose of promoting the rehabilitation of offenders, to provide places other than prisons...or to detention in Saint Patrick's Institution, and to amend in other respects the law relating to prisons
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1971-08-19/4/
19 Aug 1971 -
situation in which the possibility will arise that two persons engaged in an activity which, but for this Bill...their cases, are going to find themselves in the situation where one can be prosecuted and sent to prison...citizens before the law, and I solemnly warn the House and the Minister that the possibility of this Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
to act as an independent, semi-judicial body, independent in the sense that they stand between the prisoners...and the Minister and that complaints can be made by the prisoners to the visiting committee about any
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
Bruton Would the Minister not agree that it is highly desirable that nobody under 19 should be sent to prison
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Section 2 deals with the provision of places of detention other than prisons
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-06-03/36/
3 Jun 1970 -
refer to my point under subsection (2) about the question of giving some road to self-government for prisoners
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-05-27/3/
27 May 1970 -
I particularly appreciate that the Bill was approached in the proper spirit—it was a non-party approach...Indeed, all of what is proposed in the Bill and a great deal of what I referred to in my speech is the...The prison service is no exception....Deputy Bruton referred to some of the 1947 Rules for Prisons....In particular, in regard to Shanganagh, which is the place to which this Bill refers most particularly
