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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/4/
24 Jun 2020 - Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act of 2009 has given us legislation on tackling organised...crime throughout Ireland....However, we have seen how gardaí are sent by themselves to crimes or altercations in houses....We do not have the equipment to deal with gangland crime and anti-social behaviour....Statistics show that criminal gangs are moving into rural areas where it is harder to detect them because
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-08-04/47/
4 Aug 1971 - Both these offences are new offences being written into our criminal law for the first time, but the...As I have told the Minister for Justice, they are not only newspapers which from time to time criticise...with me and in an editorial on 27th July an appeal was made to the Government and the Minister for Justice...We are voting in favour of every amendment that is down as an expression of our opinion that the Bill...I learned of this episode only this evening, but we had the Minister for Justice cracking Deputy de Valera
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-07-11/11/
11 Jul 2013 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter) Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair...I am pleased to present the Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013 to...Delay is truly the enemy of justice or as the old maxim goes, justice delayed is justice denied....Usually Bills providing for an amendment to the Constitution are relatively straightforward....That Bill cannot be enacted unless the people approve the amendment and even then, it will take some
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-07-11/12/
11 Jul 2018 - Senator Kelleher and the Senators who supported her in bringing forward this timely and very important Bill...attention to the work of the psychologist, William Ryan, who in the 1970s wrote a book entitled Blaming the Victim...When the justice committee of the previous Oireachtas tasked itself with looking at the issue of Traveller...That is at the root of where we are today and why the Bill is so important.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1945-04-25/20/
25 Apr 1945 - Minister for Justice (Mr. Boland) I move that the Bill be now read a Second Time....The Bill is intended to meet the need for more station sergeants and inspectors in the Gárda Síochána...the Dublin Metropolitan Division comprise the main central city and port areas and almost half the crime...In each of these districts an extra inspector is badly needed for crime investigation, control of street...allocated to headquarters and the depôt, one is required for the Technical Bureau (Fingerprints and Criminal
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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/2009-11-11/2/
11 Nov 2009 - The proposed amendment would have the effect of reducing the period proposed by the Government by half...If we were to accept the amendment, it would seriously hamper the law enforcement authorities in their...constant efforts to bring serious criminals, including terrorists, to justice....was acknowledged that when discussing the retention of data as a weapon in the fight against serious crime
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-11-01/10/
1 Nov 2007 - Higgins I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill....We must ensure that whatever amendments are made on Committee Stage will make the Bill a genuine instrument...It is a feature of the research into crime over the years, particularly in the case of the old fashioned...approach that must be dismissed is the suggestion that one discovers the person as a participant in a crime...I am told the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has no responsibility for what eccentric
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-11-28/22/
28 Nov 2017 - of the particular case, the court considers it necessary or expedient to do so in the interests of justice...to the courts for victims and survivors of domestic abuse....It is an issue that has been raised by quite a number of groups and NGOs working with victims of domestic...That is what all of these amendments seek to do....other amendments.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-04-21/6/
21 Apr 1999 - O'Donoghue: The amendments in the name of Deputy Higgins take a different approach....These amendments, together with further proposed amendments dealing with the nature of the sentence to...In such circumstances it seems proper that a person whose activities are a mainstay of such a criminal...In this context I wish to point out that, in addition to substantial criminal law reform measures which...I will introduce, it is intended that criminal justice miscellaneous provisions legislation will be
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-06-12/24/
12 Jun 1990 - Burke I move amendment No. 1....As to Deputy McCartan's proposed amendments to the new section and section 5 of the Bill, I consider...because he represents the forces of law and order which we, as a society, have established to prevent crime...and apprehend criminals....Four, very heavy maximum penalties are already prescribed for the types of crimes which might give rise
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1967-10-24/23/
24 Oct 1967 - I have introduced the Criminal Justice Bill which I hope to have circulated in the coming months....There will be a number of other provisions in the Criminal Justice Bill designed to give additional power...In the new Criminal Justice Bill we are strengthening the hands of the police....There will be a number of amendments and one of the reforms is that mentioned by Deputy O'Higgins providing...Justice Bill, is the question of having some form of restitution or compensation which might be more
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-12-05/2/
5 Dec 2007 - That reply from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated: "The number of bench warrants...Indeed, the previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform introduced Operation Anvil, which...When the Criminal Justice Bill was before the House last year, the Labour Party through Deputy Howlin...with people whom judges have decided should be arrested, either because they have been convicted of a crime
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-10-25/12/
25 Oct 2007 - Deputy Mary O’Rourke I welcome the publication of the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007....I know the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Michael McDowell, had done a...When introducing this Bill, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated he would introduce...Ruhama's biennial report for 2005-06 states: It is now more controlled by criminals with an increasing...and his officials review the comments made by Deputies today, I hope they consider drawing up some amendments
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-25/15/
25 Sep 2019 - The savagery and inhumanity involved reveal the continued existence of a minority criminal underground...These criminals have no respect for State authorities or the law and they operate in a twilight zone...I subsequently met his parents, Stephen and Breege, and their campaign for justice has continued....The 2018 cross-Border threat assessment prepared jointly by the Garda and Police Service of Northern...Ireland, PSNI, estimated that 43% of organised crime gangs in Northern Ireland have a cross-Border dimension
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1984-10-02/4/
2 Oct 1984 - to a Bill of this kind....In fact, amendment No. 5 is only changing the Bill in the event of amendment No. 7 being accepted....this Bill is going back to the other House....It is a different approach towards the investigation of crime than we have had in the past....That is quite a reasonable approach towards the investigation of crime and is one with which I would
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_and_equality/2017-11-08/2/
8 Nov 2017 - Court of Justice jurisprudence in the area....Access to such data is very important in the context of both combating serious crime and safeguarding...Justice Murray took account of the Tele2 judgment....taken up with an analysis of the Data Retention Act 2011 with recommendations on how the Act might be amended...Justice Murray’s review together with the revised heads of the Bill in order that the committee could
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-06-16/9/
16 Jun 2004 - is need in the Ireland of today to continue the relevant sections of the Offences against the State (Amendment...The first, as mentioned by the Minister of State, is the horrendous crime of the Omagh bombing....We must also remember the murderous people who perpetrated that dreadful crime and are, unfortunately...With only one of them convicted, there are still those who await the scales of justice to be weighed...In such circumstances, we must continue these measures under the Offences against the State (Amendment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-13/17/
13 Jun 2001 - reasonable grounds for believing that the conduct of the adult amounts to an obstruction of the course of justice...If anything, it could be regarded as furthering the course of justice....Such a decision could have major implications in any subsequent criminal trial and any advice to this...For example, under section 7 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, and section 5 of the...I referred to this matter in a previous amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1992-06-24/10/
24 Jun 1992 - Minister for Justice (Mr....point to make that legislation designed to prevent criminals living off the backs of the victims of...and misdemeanours which complicates the criminal law unnecessarily; a Criminal Procedure Bill which...will deal with the recommendations of the Martin Committee; a Juvenile Justice Bill to repeal the Children...Act, 1908 and replace it with a modern Bill; a Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill which
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-05/27/
5 Nov 2008 - Moreover, it mirrors the fines and penalties as laid out in the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences...If I deem the figure to be inappropriate, I will take the opportunity to amend the provision in the Seanad
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1991-11-20/7/
20 Nov 1991 - Section 9 provides that a district justice or a judge may order a person accused of causing damage to...compensate the victim to some degree....for 12 months, that amounts to only £260, whereas if he could be ordered to pay it for two years the victim...With regard to Deputy McCartan's statement about some district justices adopting a class attitude, or...Therefore, even if the amendment is well intentioned and even if the wording of the 1940 legislation
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-07-09/37/
9 Jul 2009 - Flanagan We are dealing here with the burden of responsibility in proving what in effect constitutes a criminal...Second, it underlines the gravity of the offence in terms of what is a criminal organisation because...Part 2 deals with organised crime and the new section 71B(1) states: "In proceedings under this Part...might confirm that there are no circumstances in which that could happen, given the proposals in the Bill...arise here and I ask the Minister to explain not only the rationale behind his introduction of a late amendment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1935-12-11/20/
11 Dec 1935 - is nothing short of criminal....Deputy MacDermot says that their conduct is nothing short of criminal. I specified the crime....He says, vaguely and indefinitely, "nothing short of criminal." Embezzlement is my application....Or, since I dealt with the Public Safety Act—the Constitution (Amendment) Bill (No. 17)—perhaps he had...another possible crime in mind.
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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. 6: In page 6, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute...release from prison on parole, the governor of the prison from which he or she is so released; “relevant victim...”, in relation to a parole applicant or a parolee, means the victim of the criminal offence in respect...imprisonment to which the application for parole or the parole order, as the case may be, relates; “victim
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-11-19/5/
19 Nov 1987 - I welcome the Bill....in the same open-minded fashion that he approached amendments in the Seanad....under normal criminal law....They are wider than the powers of search granted in the criminal justice legislation which caused such...However, if the same Bill emanated from the Department of Justice we would be here for months trying
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1927-04-28/2/
28 Apr 1927 - There is not any such balance and will not be any such balance even under the provisions of this Bill...B." is not believed by the State to have sufficient detestation of this particular form of crime to...That is the position under the amendment. It is an absurd position. It is wholly unsound....question and if he had any experience of the Courts, or had made any close study of the administration of criminal...Attorney-General's stand by was a thing of the past, and was no longer necessary for the administration of justice
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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/2003-02-18/2/
18 Feb 2003 - laid down by the Oireachtas under the Constitution and by reference to the Interpretation Act and this Bill...the issue as to whether, as a State, we agree to be bound by that proposition or to keep, say, the Criminal...by the Roman Curia, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg or the International Court of Justice...One could, for instance, envisage a Bill stating that all previously enacted law that is incompatible...with the European Convention on Human Rights is hereby amended accordingly and now stands amended as
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-05-05/5/
5 May 1993 - The referee might be snowed under with complaints from all types of semi-criminals....I have not put down an amendment in this regard....I do not know if it is possible to cover this matter by way of an amendment, as the Ombudsman's office...Complaints to the Ombudsman's office are generally genuine but people involved in crime and who come...activity, could that person delay a criminal investigation on the basis that a complaint was before
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-10-20/21/
20 Oct 1993 - barrister both prosecuting and defending offenders and I have a great deal more experience in the area of crime...Members of the Judiciary know the criminal mind very well....The Department of Justice would do a worthwhile service by informing a District Court judge that a person...In that way the people could judge who is to blame for the inadequacies in the criminal justice system...cannot be expected to make decisions in isolation about what should happen, as if he or she disbursed justice
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-04-29/22/
29 Apr 2009 - The Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform assured the Garda Commissioner that...gangland crime in Limerick to date....Theirs is not a criminality born of want or need....My colleague the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has set out the main provisions of the...Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-09-02/7/
2 Sep 1998 - opportunity to contribute on Second Stage but I followed with interest the debate on this and previous amendments...delineated and contained in the legislation enacted by the House prior to the summer recess, namely, the Criminal...Justice (Release of Prisoners) Act, 1998, will not be utilised by the Government to effect the early...likely to benefit from the type of early release system for which structural provision is made under the Criminal...Justice (Release of Prisoners) Act.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-04-21/14/
21 Apr 1999 - O'Donoghue: I move amendment No. 22: In page 13, to delete lines 11 to 50, and in page 14, to delete...case the person's evidence is to be given through a live television link pursuant to Part III of the Criminal...Evidence Act, 1992, or section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1999, through such a link, whether or...(2) If satisfied that it would be in the interests of justice to do so, the trial court may order a...(b) securing the attendance of the accused, as the District Court has in relation to witnesses in criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-11/5/
11 Jul 2014 - We welcome the Bill as the implementation Bill facilitating the establishment of a new court of appeal...Ireland is also a signatory to a Council of Europe protocol which states that everyone convicted of a criminal...Appeals lodged today may not be heard until 2018....in favour of this necessary reform of the court structure in Ireland and hopes to offer constructive amendments...as the Bill passes through the Oireachtas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-29/35/
29 Nov 2018 - Deputy Mattie McGrath I rise to support this very good amendment....However, the amendment does not do that but is instead a carefully couched proposal for a timely review...This amendment asks the Government to look at that and to lay the results before the joint committee....It is criminal....We need to have a root and branch examination and I wholeheartedly support this amendment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-09-24/624/
24 Sep 2008 - Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Deputy Dermot Ahern) Legislative, administrative and...measures have been put in place to provide a comprehensive, holistic and effective response to the heinous crime...of 45 days in the State for alleged victims of trafficking....An administrative framework, reflecting the provisions in the Bill, was introduced on 7th June, 2008...of such criminal activity is adequately provided for, and to commence prosecutions where criminal activity
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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/2006-05-03/2/
3 May 2006 - I am sympathetic to the intent encompassed by the amendment as proposed by Deputy O'Keeffe and I am pleased...Subsections (3) and (6) of amendment No. 118 provide that the court, in imposing sentence on a person...I support his amendment....namely, the existence of a person with a reservoir of important information in uncovering more serious crimes...and bringing to book more serious criminals.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-09-25/12/
25 Sep 2019 - Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (Deputy David Stanton) I agree with the...I sincerely thank the Members present for their considered contributions and their views on this Bill...thank everybody for their co-operation in making extra time available to deal with all Stages of the Bill...Deputy Ned O’Sullivan rightly raised the issue of hate speech, hate crime and racism....The Department of Justice and Equality is completing the review of the Defamation Act.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-06/25/
6 Dec 1989 - As I said earlier, these amendments go to the core of this Bill....the concept of recklessness in the Bill....been obliged to be addressed emphatically by the Court of Appeal in the English administration of justice...fence who passes on goods, who secretes them and provides the wheels and oil for the whole industry of crime...and crucial to the effective workings of the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1928-07-12/3/
12 Jul 1928 - DOWDALL I move amendment 1:—Section 5, to delete the section....This section deals with and restricts the liberty given to a person accused of a criminal charge to appeal...The Minister, speaking on the Second Reading of the Bill, stressed that it was a novel thing in our administration...of justice to have an appeal in a criminal case except in cases referred to as Crown cases reserved....one sort or another, it is open to a litigant to appeal, I think it peculiar that the Minister for Justice
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2000-02-02/6/
2 Feb 2000 - Ms Hanafin The amendment is opposed....It seeks to introduce to the Bill a definition of the term "of good character" for the purposes of the..., with the modification proposed by the Senator's amendment, it is unlikely that a Minister for Justice...by those who tabled the amendment....It is not difficult to imagine circumstances where a crime of a particularly heinous nature, committed
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-09-24/15/
24 Sep 2015 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Frances Fitzgerald) I move: "That the Bill be now read a...We have a criminal justice steering group to provide greater co-ordination between all bodies operating...in the criminal justice system....The Bill comprehensively amends the Garda Síochána Act 2005 - the principal Act - to incorporate the...In particular, the amendment to section 40, provided for by section 32 of the Bill, specifies that the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1928-06-06/37/
6 Jun 1928 - Rather it is the authorities, perhaps the Attorney-General or perhaps the Minister for Justice who will...When a citizen of this State has been convicted on a criminal charge and he has appealed against that...entirely for the Attorney-General or for the Minister for Justice....use repeating the statement made by myself and others on the occasion of the Second Reading of this Bill...I for one certainly if this matter goes to a division will vote in favour of the amendment.
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Debate: Select Committee On Legislation And Security
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_legislation_and_security/1993-05-21/3/
21 May 1993 - The confiscation of the proceeds of crime Bill is in the final stages of being drafted....Garda automatically refer victims of crime to the IAVS....In relation to pain and suffering experienced by a victim of crime, it would cost £8 million to £10 million...However, under the Criminal Justice Act, 1993, compensation for the effect of a crime on a victim has...to fundamentally change and amend the situation that has existed up to now in this area.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-06-10/6/
10 Jun 2010 - It has initiated legislation not just in this area but also in the area of white collar crime, etc....The definition of a public place is contained in the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994....to some amendments if we can tailor them....Justice (Public Order) Act 1994, the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 and the Criminal...Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-06-28/22/
28 Jun 2006 - offence under the Firearms Acts 1925 to 2006 , the Offences Against the State Acts 1939 to 1998 or the Criminal...Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, or (ii) an offence under the law of another state involving...I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 108: In paragraph ( f ) of the inserted paragraphs, to insert...The amendment to the amendment proposes that, for example, a tourist coming to Ireland would not be excluded...I propose that both the amendment and the amendment to the amendment be accepted.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1953-07-29/36/
29 Jul 1953 - it is unwise to take away from him the right he hitherto had of applying for transfer to the Central Criminal...It is one that will need amendment....With the goodwill that we generally get from the Minister for Justice, I feel that this Bill will emerge...he should not contemplate any drastic reduction in the number of Circuit Court judges or of district justices...I suggest he will then find that the complaints which have been suggested of district justices not having
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1967-08-09/4/
9 Aug 1967 - O'Quigley The Bill is defective in that none of these reasonable amendments was accepted, and with all...It is wrong that a breach of a condition should give rise to a criminal offence....In that connection, the Minister might well consider asking the Chief Justice or the President of the...constitutional issue is raised by the fixing of a condition in such a way that its breach gives rise to a criminal...I hope that when the Minister comes to make regulations, he will not fall victim to a suggestion made
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-23/10/
23 Nov 1989 - On 26 October 1989 the Minister for Justice gave various figures in the Dáil in relation to six Garda...There are fewer people now to do the job, to combat crime and arrest criminals....We must ensure that the gardaí win the battle against criminals....The savings will treble in other areas with insurance costs, medical bills for people who are injured...and various other bills in relation to running the prison service.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-04-29/21/
29 Apr 1997 - For example, a district justice may disqualify a person from driving for a period of two years because...In Fianna Fáil's Bill on aggravated robbery I specifically provided for minimum sentencing for syringe...If something is not nipped in the bud, particularly if it relates to a criminal offence resulting from...In such circumstances, it would be remiss of me not to put these amendments to a vote....of such crime.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-09-29/746/
29 Sep 2010 - The 1875 Act was amended by the Criminal Justice Act, 2006 which came into effect in August, 2006 to...The amendments also provided for significantly increased penalties governing the illegal importation,...in place covering the period coming up to and including Hallowe'en night and the provisions of the Criminal...Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 will be rigidly enforced....initiatives supported by plain-clothes personnel, including District Detective and Drug Units, Divisional Crime
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-11-15/18/
15 Nov 1995 - The Minister for Justice has informed the House that the Government is prepared to back the Bill, subject...to certain amendments likely to be required....means to ensure that these individuals will not be able to avoid the consequences of their terrible crimes...As the Minister for Justice, Deputy Nora Owen, pointed out in her statement, there are gaps in the Bill..., and she will bring forward a number of amendments on Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-11-02/29/
2 Nov 2016 - predators, new and strengthened offences to tackle child pornography, harassment orders to protect victims...of convicted sex offenders and new provisions to be introduced regarding evidence by victims, particularly...against solicitation but also to create a new solicitation crime and leave brothel keeping as a criminal...law poses a risk that sex workers, particularly the most marginalised, would not receive redress for crimes...safety of sex workers, and reluctantly, we will be abstaining on Second Stage with a view to tabling an amendment
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2014-05-27/11/
27 May 2014 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Frances Fitzgerald) I thank all Members who have contributed...to the debate and welcome the support for the Bill across the House....a quantifiable and immediate impact on the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of crime...Some amendments that were accepted in that House give stronger and greater protection on that issue....a Senator and while this issue was addressed during the Dáil debate, I certainly will consider any amendments
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-12-12/13/
12 Dec 2012 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter) While I understand the intent behind the amendments...If accepted, these amendments would contravene the provisions in the Bill that exempt private arrangements...If I did not have them vetted, I could be committing a criminal offence because I had not complied with...the provisions of the Bill....This is why private arrangements must be excluded from the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-09-02/3/
2 Sep 1976 - The Emergency Powers Act, 1940 is expressed to be "An Act to amend the Emergency Powers Act, 1939, for...) (No. 2) Act, 1940, is expressed to be "An Act to amend and extend the Emergency Powers Act 1939, for...nor the Criminal Law Bill which more or less goes with it, repeal any provision of the Offences Against...purpose of questioning for a period of up to 48 hours of a person who is suspected of particular types of crime...or having been involved or about to become involved in a particular type of crime.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-02-14/14/
14 Feb 2017 - We are on section 22 and we will move to amendment No. 4 and the question of a person in authority....I am sure if we laid all the provisions of our criminal legislation alongside each other, we could argue...There are a number of crimes and a number of ceilings that are hit at different points....to it, and I am not sure how the groupings work now that we are on Committee Stage, but I know that amendment
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-02-14/15/
14 Feb 2017 - We are on section 22 and we will move to amendment No. 4 and the question of a person in authority....I am sure if we laid all the provisions of our criminal legislation alongside each other, we could argue...There are a number of crimes and a number of ceilings that are hit at different points....to it, and I am not sure how the groupings work now that we are on Committee Stage, but I know that amendment
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-06-19/4/
19 Jun 2003 - Ryan I move amendment No. 26: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following new subsection...failure to act in a manner compatible with a Convention provision, a person has been convicted of a criminal...I am not our party's spokesperson on justice....Therefore, I came to deal with the Bill later than would normally have been the case....The purpose of the amendment is to at least raise the issue by stating that if someone is convicted,
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1946-06-27/25/
27 Jun 1946 - Costello I do not wish unduly to prolong the discussion on this amendment....Last night I made the points that I wished to make in favour of the amendment....set of facts an ordinary deduction: that were it not for the Special Military Courts administering criminal...said last night, that the effect will be to create a spurious sympathy in the public mind with the victims...that he will at least exercise the greatest possible control over cases that will be sent under this Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-06-27/21/
27 Jun 2006 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh I move amendment No. 6: In page 14, line 37, after "prescribed" to insert the following...Amendments Nos. 46 and 409 relate to section 14 which allows for the taking of bodily samples, a topic...I have listed these in amendment No. 409....They already exist, for example in the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990....The amendment brings this part of the Bill into line with existing legislation.
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Debate: Select Committee On Legislation And Security
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_legislation_and_security/1993-11-10/2/
10 Nov 1993 - Ms O'Donnell I support the amendment....It would be fair to suspect that major miscarriages of justice would arise or would have their genesis...At the moment there are various safeguards; the right to remain silent, the Judges' Rules, the Criminal...Justice Act, Treatment of Persons in Custody in Garda Stations Regulations, 1987 and the constitutional
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-03-27/23/
27 Mar 2001 - Neville I support Deputy O'Sullivan's amendment....One hundred years ago it was accepted practice to turn the key and lock away criminals....Staff from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform operate the programme....They do not understand the effect the abuse has on a victim....am convinced that rehabilitative programmes have an important role to play and I fully support the amendment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-02-20/20/
20 Feb 1979 - Andrews I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 2: In page 3, to delete lines...( b ) A justice of the District Court shall have jurisdiction to try summarily an offence under this...section if— (i) the justice is of opinion that the facts proved or alleged against a defendant charged...ii) the Director of Public Prosecutions consents, and (iii) the defendant (on being informed by the justice...( c ) Section 13 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967, shall apply in relation to an offence under
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1940-01-04/4/
4 Jan 1940 - The Minister for Justice has come in here to-day; we heard a member of his Party in the Dáil yesterday...making a most blackguardly speech in defence of the criminals we are now trying to deal with under this...Bill, but we do not blame the Minister for Justice for that....that they are going to act, and act rigorously and expeditiously against this organisation and this criminal...And the Constitution as it is amended is integrally whole in its amended condition.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-21/3/
21 Apr 1977 - This Bill is a perpetuation of the policy embarked on by the Coalition since 1973 and it reflects strongly...In the Isle of Man it has been proved that corporal punishment has been a deterrent for criminals and...of wrongdoers are brought to justice....The cold facts that emerge possibly two years late when we see the crime statistics should cause much...In many cases well over half the people who commit crimes go free.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-06-09/23/
9 Jun 2015 - As the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, mentioned in her introductory remarks...Significant progress has been made in implementing the Government's comprehensive justice reform programme...the Oireachtas joint committee are being considered, including the establishment of an overarching criminal...justice inspectorate along the lines of the model adopted in Northern Ireland....The Minister is grateful for the support expressed for the Bill in this House.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-03-04/5/
4 Mar 1998 - The Minister will find it is virtually impossible to operate the criminal justice system unless the...It is contrary to our system of justice, which has always operated on the basis of allowing some judicial...Heroin addiction costs at least £100 a day, which addicts obtain by committing crime....The proposal will target those who are victims and are supplying a small amount of drugs, which could...I know the intention is genuine but this is an unfortunate provision in the Bill because it will run
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1935-07-19/14/
19 Jul 1935 - Ruttledge I move amendments Nos. 164 to 172 inclusive:— 164....The object of these 11 amendments is to establish a single rulemaking committee for the Supreme Court..., the Court of Criminal Appeal and the High Court, instead of the three separate committees which the...Bill as at present drafted proposes....The adoption of the amendments will involve the deletion of Sections 63 and 64.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1994-03-24/3/
24 Mar 1994 - Minister for Justice (Mrs....Geoghegan-Quinn) The primary purpose of the Extradition (Amendment) Bill, 1994, is to amend and clarify...Section 2 of the Bill provides for the amendment of the existing provisions in the Extradition (European...Criminal Justice (No. 3) Bill, 1993, which is also before the House at present....This amendment, made by section 2 (a) of the Bill, reflects the existing law as decided in the case of
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1975-05-14/7/
14 May 1975 - of bringing them to justice....The crimes being committed at the moment in Ireland are against the Irish people....person who was caught in the Twenty-six Counties would opt to go back to Northern Ireland to look for justice...I would say he would get much more justice here....The Minister has no room at all for amendments to this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-06-23/27/
23 Jun 1999 - Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Miss M....There is a great deal of international interest, for example, in the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Proceeds...of Crime Act....Purely technical drafting difficulties could be overcome, albeit with amendments on a considerable scale...As the House knows, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform clarified earlier this year that
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-11-24/18/
24 Nov 2016 - Deputy Jim O'Callaghan I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend...The purpose of the Bill is to amend the 2004 Commissions of Investigation Act to permit the disclosure...Justice O'Higgins....In fact, it makes it a criminal offence to publish or disclose such evidence as it is given....She stated that she is not inclined to proceed with such a Bill at present because the advice she has
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2016-06-29/10/
29 Jun 2016 - Therefore, I give the Minister of State 24 hours to consider my amendment....Also, the justice committee of these Houses, as indicated by the Minister of State herself, also supports...I will press the amendment on Report Stage tomorrow....Peter McVerry, and the report that was done by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and...support, compassion and medical attention, and does not need to be sitting in a courtroom or have a criminal
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2011-10-12/7/
12 Oct 2011 - Trafficking utilises a plethora of control strategies to ensure compliance by victims....These include deception in their recruitment — victims are often promised an education or good jobs —...The Criminal Assets Bureau has valued the Irish sex industry at €250 million a year....to buy sex from someone who had been trafficked as a result of the enactment of the Criminal Justice...To date, however, no one has been identified as a victim of trafficking under this law because no convictions
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-10-04/25/
4 Oct 2006 - Perhaps the previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform was no different, but I do not like...confront the accuser, confront the evidence and question those giving evidence, with the vulnerability of victims...We will have to examine that matter which largely refers to the criminal law, although section 51 deals...On the last occasion I was my party's spokesperson for justice, we had a great debate about the taking...By and large, I have no difficulty with these amendments.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1981-11-12/4/
12 Nov 1981 - but that mandatory sentence was recommended in a situation where the provisions of section 23 of the Criminal...It is difficult to see why the Minister is foregoing this legislative power in the Criminal Justice Act...That cannot be taken away except by a Constitutional amendment necessitating a referendum, and the President...Justice Act, 1951....Justice Act, 1951, it is going to be from inside the Department of Justice, inside the prison service
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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 appreciate the Minister's difficulty and it was for that reason that I worded my amendment...free legal aid was left to the discretion of the District Court, the Circuit Court and the Central Criminal...District Justices who have most of these cases to deal with have exercised their powers under the free...Here again District Justices will prove themselves to be very practical people and if application is...I do not wish to press the Minister because I appreciate that the whole tenor of the Bill is redolent
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-10-20/28/
20 Oct 1976 - One of the reasons is that there was substantial amendment and updating of the Merchandise Marks Acts...I hope in the course of reasonable discussions on amendments that we might be able to improve the Bill...The first point I want to deal with is the fact that all the offences created in this Bill are criminal...Justice Act, 1972, and the Criminal Court Act, 1973, when a prosecution for one of these offences under...They do not follow logically why the result of a criminal prosecution should not be relevant to the
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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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-06-27/27/
27 Jun 2006 - I am speaking on amendment No. 38 but I will also discuss amendments Nos. 39 and 403....This judgment has implications beyond the 1939 Act and the detention provisions in section 2 of the Criminal...Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 are also affected....Amendments Nos. 39 and 403 to sections 10 and 184 of the Bill propose amendments to the relevant provisions...Paragraph ( b )(ii) is simply a restatement of subsection (3) of section 184 of the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-12-12/16/
12 Dec 2012 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter) I must still oppose the amendment....This amendment does not work....We do not need an uncertain provision in the Bill that generates a grey area, particularly a grey area...that could result in somebody being criminally prosecuted....are no relevant definitions to ensure the provision could be applied in an appropriate manner in the Bill
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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: 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/2006-03-02/2/
2 Mar 2006 - Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Mr....Deputy Costello's amendments effectively amount to a proposal that the Genocide Act 1973 remain on the...The decision to repeal the Genocide Act 1973 was taken because the crimes concerned are totally and comprehensively...It affirms that the crime is punishable not only when committed in armed conflict, but when committed...of the genocide convention, is already appended to the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1994-02-23/6/
23 Feb 1994 - Lanigan I welcome this Bill which has been introduced not before time....In certain cases Governments have been bought off by these international criminals....The Garda Drug Squad and the Department of Justice have tried to eliminate these problems but they were...We must compliment the Customs officers, the Department of Justice personnel and the gardaí for the major...However, that does not come within the provisions of this Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-17/6/
17 May 2018 - opportunity to indicate that I intend to reintroduce - for Committee Stage debate - the Electoral (Amendment...) Bill 2013 to the Order Paper next week....The Bill passed Second Stage during the lifetime of the previous Seanad....I ask the Deputy Leader to work with the Leader to ensure that the families of those victims get the...justice they deserve and the truth of exactly what happened 44 years ago.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-12-09/19/
9 Dec 2015 - 20, 21, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38 and 40, back from committee; and No. 2, Legal Services Regulation Bill...2011 - amendments from the Seanad (resumed)....Tomorrow's business after Oral Questions shall be No. 2, Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 - amendments...from the Seanad (resumed); No. 36, Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015 - Order for Report...No. 2 b , Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-11-15/20/
15 Nov 2005 - Connolly I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill which is designed to update criminal law relating..."insanity" Bill....Why does being mentally ill excuse someone from criminal guilt?...Amendments to the Bill proposed the removal of the terms "insanity" and "mental handicap"; the inclusion...justice system which meets international standards of best practice, including human rights instruments
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-05-15/16/
15 May 2003 - Deasy The detail of the Bill has great merit....It is still the case that we have dissident republican groups who remain active, and that organised crime...The Government should reconsider this idea of an organised crime unit....Commissioner Kevin Carthy stated very simply that the police are required to stop at borders, but the criminals...I know that the Criminal Justice (Joint Investigation Teams) Bill 2003 was in the Seanad yesterday.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-05-02/25/
2 May 1990 - In speaking about the raid in Enniscorthy it is also appropriate that we bear in mind the extent of criminal...with this state of affairs and even if this means putting through the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill...hope the manner in which the raid was dealt with by the Garda Síochána will be a clear signal to the criminals...unacceptable to all civilized members of this community and there is absolutely no support for such criminal...Therefore, I suggest the Garda request is a reasonable one and the response of the Minister for Justice
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2002-12-18/11/
18 Dec 2002 - The amendment moved by Senator Tuffy seeks to distinguish between well-organised criminal gangs that...I do not think it is beyond the wit of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to cater for...Senator Norris is right to say that this section of the Bill does not apply to the United Kingdom, including...of asylum seekers and where the majority of incidents of the type catered for in this section of the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-10-30/13/
30 Oct 2008 - I will now set out more fully the provisions of the Bill, which amends section 1 of the Prevention of...Section 2 of the Bill amends section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 as amended by section...Since the publication of this Bill, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has received comprehensive...recommend in their forthcoming evaluation report that the Government should support the work of the Criminal...While it is early days yet in the work of the Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee, 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/2014-03-07/2/
7 Mar 2014 - to the wider criminal law....an aunt or an uncle, not covered by incest offences and household members who are not related to the victim...consequences of the State's failure to actively review and modernise legislation in the area of sexual crimes...In August 2012, the Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable...Amendments to the law on incest together with amendments to the wider criminal law will enhance the protection
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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/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: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-03-11/27/
11 Mar 2015 - , it needs to be amended....their summary as follows: One consequence of the rule that no one may benefit in law from his own crime..., is that, in general, if one joint tenant criminally kills another, the killer cannot take any beneficial...or whether a constructive trust is imposed to prevent the killer from obtaining any benefit from his crime...I commend Senator Quinn's careful drafting of the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-07-02/5/
2 Jul 1993 - The answer to social problems in society and crime are dealt with largely through ensuring that there...This legislation, like much criminal legislation coming before the House, provides dual sanctions of...providing a fine or a term of imprisonment for criminal offences....I will table an amendment to this section on Committee Stage....from the Progressive Democrats' Bill.
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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: 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/2006-04-26/2/
26 Apr 2006 - offence under the Firearms Acts 1925 to 2006, the Offences Against the State Acts 1939 to 1998 or the Criminal...Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, or (ii) an offence under the law of another state involving...persons of intemperate habits, persons of unsound mind and persons who have been sentenced for any crime...to imprisonment for an offence under the Firearms Acts, Offences Against the State Acts or Criminal...Justice (Terrorist Offences) Acts and an offence under the law of any other state involving the production
