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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: 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: 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/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/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/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/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: 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/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: 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: 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: 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
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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: 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: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-11-28/4/
28 Nov 2001 - The Bill is certainly radical in those areas concerning criminal procedure....This reduction is the result of the Government's commitment to investment in the criminal justice system...Sections 21 and 22 amend aspects of the money laundering provisions contained in the Criminal Justice...56( a ) of that Act as inserted by section 15 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act...amended section 31 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1994 that is being made by section 21 of this Bill.
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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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-23/31/
23 May 2018 - Deputy Martin Kenny I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after “hereby annulled”: “and...The document, on page 6, states, "The Determination Panel, having regard to the interest of justice,...we refer directly in our amendment....The only place we see anything about this is where it states that criminal proceedings are not valid....All people are looking for is the sense that common justice will apply.
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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/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: 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: 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/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: 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: 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: 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: 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/2014-10-03/2/
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: 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: 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/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: 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: 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: 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/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/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: 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/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: 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: 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/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: 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/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: 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/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: 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: 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: 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/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
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-02-04/27/
4 Feb 1998 - The Bill before the House removes one such barrier....Where an abuser pleads guilty in a criminal trial, the abused victim should be allowed to describe the...a comprehensive brief for children which will not only include his Department but the Department of Justice...This morning on RTE radio a victim and the mother of a victim outlined the horror story of sexual abuse...This Bill is an important step in ensuring that children's rights are upheld.
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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: Select Committee On Education And Social Protection (Select Sub-Committee On Education And Skills)
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_education_and_social_protection/2012-06-28/2/
28 Jun 2012 - Deputy Seán Crowe I move amendment No. 14: In page 9, after line 45, to insert the following subsection...raised with me was that moneys spent on administration and solicitors should have been paid directly to victims...Sean Leonard of Justice and Healing for Institutional Abuse notes that the legal fraternity has made...I welcome the clause that ensures the information and documentation relating to victims presenting for...The amendment seeks to have this view reflected in the Bill.
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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/2008-07-08/100/
8 Jul 2008 - Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Deputy Dermot Ahern) As the Deputy will know, effective...anti-money laundering legislation has been in place in this jurisdiction since the enactment of the Criminal...Justice Act 1994....Later amendments to this Act are contained in the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001...and the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-05-27/31/
27 May 1986 - Almost three years ago when the then Minister for Justice introduced the Criminal Justice Bill, 1983,...Those measures were included in an extensive series of amendments which I put forward on behalf of Fianna...Fáil on the Committee Stage of the Bill....In another amendment we dealt with the establishment of a Garda Síochána complaints commission....I pointed out at that time that the new complaints system had been incorporated in the Police 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/2006-05-03/2/
3 May 2006 - McDowell I move amendment No. 121: In page 25, before section 24, but in Part 4, to insert the following...Amendment No. 121 provides general penalties under the firearms Acts and Deputy O'Keeffe's amendments...My amendment substitutes a new section for section 25 of the Firearms Act 1925....will note that five years means the offences become arrestable offences and the provisions of the 1984 Criminal...Justice Act in relation to detention applies to them.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-01-27/52/
27 Jan 2016 - Deputy Thomas Pringle I move amendment No. 45: In page 7, to delete lines 42 to 49....The amendment seeks to remove the courts' ability to use spent convictions during a person's trial....convictions to be used as evidence during a trial, even when the spent conviction may not be relevant to the crime...There is a proviso in the text that the court must be satisfied in all circumstances that justice cannot
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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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-03-05/18/
5 Mar 1996 - I thank Deputy O'Donnell for her work in preparing this substantial Bill....It said this Bill pre-empts proposals and is like a curate's egg....The Minister for Justice at the time, Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn, said that, with Government approval, she...The criminal justice plans were referred to and while they are welcome in so far as they go, the Minister...premises have been damaged and private property owners who are unable to cope with the onslaught from criminals
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-04-11/34/
11 Apr 1984 - I introduced many safeguards when the Bill was first published and I have tabled a lot of amendments...The amendment does not constrain me, or my successors, in any way from bringing in amendments if the...It would not be possible for the House on the information presented to it by a Minister for Justice in...They would have to be examined and reviewed in the light of the general crime situation, the incidence...of serious crime and prison committals.
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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/2018-12-11/12/
11 Dec 2018 - Senator Colette Kelleher I am speaking in support of amendments Nos. 30 and 32....for vulnerable women to whom Senator Ruane movingly referred, particularly when there is a threat of criminal
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-11/13/
11 Dec 2018 - Senator Colette Kelleher I am speaking in support of amendments Nos. 30 and 32....for vulnerable women to whom Senator Ruane movingly referred, particularly when there is a threat of criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/29/
17 Dec 1986 - Dukes This amendment proposes to introduce three new grounds for refusal of extradition to Northern...He proposes to insert this amendment into section 50 of the 1965 Act....cases which run the whole gamut, from the kind of offences we are talking about in the context of this Bill...down to what we might call the ordinary, everyday run of the mill criminal activities....In my opening statement on Second Stage of this Bill I outlined a number of areas in which progress has
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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: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1929-07-04/5/
4 Jul 1929 - Cathaoirleach Before the Senator proceeds to speak to his amendment, might I point out that in Amendments...That being the case, perhaps Senators in whose names these amendments stand would agree to take a discussion...The amendments are:— 14.—Section 3....the section a new sub-section as follows:— "(3) Whenever a person is to be charged in the Central Criminal...Court or in the Circuit Court with any crime or offence, the prosecutor or the accused, as the case
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-03/21/
3 May 2006 - Quinn I have some experience of dealing with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform which...regards every Irish citizen as a potential criminal, if not today, tomorrow....I urge the Minister to consider the Fine Gael amendment. Let it be enacted....When the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform introduces its legislation, the Minister will...However, if he does not accept the amendment, he will have no such power and be shown no mercy in St.
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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/2000-03-29/2/
29 Mar 2000 - This is required if we are to conform to the principles of justice we have espoused and our obligations...If the Minister rejects the amendment it will cast doubt on the intention of the entire Bill as genuine...Is he suggesting a person who for reward helps a bona fide asylum seeker should be classified as a criminal...and subject to the penalties outlined in the Bill, namely, up to ten years imprisonment?...The amendments in my name will improve the Bill to that end.
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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 - I refer to the Minister's response to my amendment....Judges have been consulted on this Bill....The Bill is flawed because it provides for a further submission to the courts....application to the Court of Criminal Appeal where it is alleged that a new or newly discovered fact...The Minister said the last thing we must do is to pass a vote of no confidence in the Court of Criminal
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1972-06-07/7/
7 Jun 1972 - When a man is convicted of a crime, he has the right of applying to a judge for leave to appeal, which...He then has to go to the Court of Criminal Appeal for leave to appeal....In this case, as the Bill stands, you apply to the examiner for a right, saying that you want an inquiry...give evidence at all, and his evidence might be absolutely essential for the purpose of ensuring that justice...I should like to support Senator O'Higgins's amendment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-09-01/3/
1 Sep 1976 - The editorial in this issue says: The Minister for Justice, Mr....preventive and detective—has been so reduced throughout the country as to give virtually free rein to the criminal...criminality going back over many decades....in the larger towns and cities, where many citizens, victims of crime perhaps more than once, have simply...That is one of the provisions of one of these Bills.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-09/33/
9 Apr 2019 - Therefore, Fianna Fáil will oppose the Bill just as we opposed similar Bills in 2015 and in 2003....If we were to amend Article 28, as proposed in the Bill, in the event of an international emergency where...On the amendment of Article 29, the definition of a military alliance is open to interpretation....dedication to the ideal of peace and friendly co-operation among nations, founded on international justice...If the provisions of this Bill become law, that could well be for the Supreme Court to decide because
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-10-21/31/
21 Oct 1993 - I do not agree that this amendment will meet the problem because provisions made in law should be capable...I agree with Deputy Wallace that this issue should be dealt with in a juvenile justice Bill and not in...a criminal justice Bill which proposes a fairly blunt way of dealing with this problem....I would much prefer this issue to be dealt with by way of a juvenile justice Bill....I am sure she will address the problem of juvenile crime at the earliest possible opportunity.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-06-11/11/
11 Jun 1998 - I said in the 1970s and almost every time I spoke on a justice Bill in the House that the hooligans of...The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is responsible for law and order....It is his job to lock up the criminals and those who are terrorising people and making life a misery...I do not know whether this can be inserted into a Bill....I welcome the Bill. Anything that contributes to a reduction in crime has to be welcomed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-05-18/27/
18 May 2011 - The question is whether this Bill will help to achieve that end....Bar Association conference on white collar crime: If lessons are to be learnt from the 2008 crash,...Justice Peter Kelly was not heeded when he urged Anglo Irish Bank to reconsider some of its claims to...While the Bill primarily deals with white collar crime, is there scope to deal with other matters such...It was clear people with serious criminal convictions were working in the industry and members of the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-05-05/5/
5 May 1993 - whose telephones are tapped would not be released, for their own sake and because of the security and crime...State at the Department of Finance made a speech a few days ago about a new Freedom of Information Bill...If a Freedom of Information Bill is introduced then the basic information sought in this amendment should...Therefore, basic information is not forthcoming from Government, particularly from the Department of Justice...The amendment strikes a balance between the need to protect sources so that crime and the possible subversion
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1984-09-18/3/
18 Sep 1984 - Ellis In my opinion this legislation, the Criminal Justice Bill, 1983, will leave many scars and many...Before I deal fully with the Bill there are a few things I should say....At the moment there are three or four types of crime prevalent in this country....After all, in many cases they have not the experience and many times known criminals escape on technicalities...it is not directly relevant to the Criminal Justice Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2016-06-23/11/
23 Jun 2016 - Minister for Health (Deputy Simon Harris) I am pleased to present this Bill to amend the Misuse of...I am presenting the Bill as one part of the whole-of-government approach to dealing with serious crime...This will be done by amending the Schedule....The Bill provides for the amendment of two sections of the Act to allow for commencement of section 7...justice approach to drugs use.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1995-03-22/7/
22 Mar 1995 - Other Senators have said it is inconceivable that there could be consent to a sexual act where the victim...This may be acceptable in other areas of criminal law but it is a nonsense in sex abuses....problems of sexual offending generally and a special understanding of the plight and the real needs of the victims...It certainly administers punishment, but our system of justice should do more than administer justice...The Minister should outline whether this Bill addresses that situation.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-02-24/25/
24 Feb 1999 - Not alone is the Government's promised Attachment of Earnings Bill not among the list of 16 Bills to...The Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act, 1983, is amended and extended in the Bill to enable community...cases spend more time in prison than convicted criminals....It also states that "There is a much greater use of imprisonment in the Irish criminal justice system...I commend the Bill to the House.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-07-06/16/
6 Jul 2010 - The Taoiseach It is proposed to take No. 16, Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [...Seanad ] — Committee and Remaining Stages, and No. 1, Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2010 [...at 7 p.m. tonight by one question, which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in regard to amendments..., include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Justice and Law Reform; Private Members...at 10 p.m. tonight by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in regard to amendments
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-03-21/5/
21 Mar 2017 - Deputy David Stanton I am here on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...The new Bail (Amendment) Bill, which recently completed Second Stage in the Dáil, will expand the factors...account in refusing bail, will increase the range of conditions that may be attached to bail, will enable victim...In parallel with the progress of the Bill, the Department of Justice and Equality has established a working...The group is comprised of officials from the Department of Justice and Equality, the Irish Prison Service
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-04-01/6/
1 Apr 1998 - Upton I support these amendments....If one looks at the Department of Justice as a company, it has a huge turnover but its expenditure on...Justice policy in Ireland is made up as we go along in relation to the ebbs and flows of public opinion...He did a magnificent political job for his party on the crime issue....In the process of modernising the courts system, I hope the Minister accepts these amendments which seek
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-04-12/57/
12 Apr 2005 - Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Mr....It is my intention to bring forward this proposal by way of an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-07-28/7/
28 Jul 2020 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Helen McEntee) I will not hold it against the Cathaoirleach...I refer to Senator Ó Donnghaile's amendment and the focus on the sunset clause....the criminal procedure Bill....capability review that was carried out in the context of the Civil Service renewal plan completed in 2018...Christine Keegan, who was instrumental in advocating not just for her two daughters but many other victims
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-05-18/36/
18 May 2011 - Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter) I propose to take Questions Nos. 47, 53 and...One of the first Bills I brought before this House was the Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment...) Bill....The criteria for determining the temporary release of a prisoner are set out in section 2 of the Criminal...Justice Act 1960 as amended by the Criminal Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners) Act 2003.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-02-01/34/
1 Feb 2017 - In the context of our second amendment, the Minister's provision as drafted is, in effect, singling out...people with intellectual and mental disabilities as the victims of an offence of being exploited sexually...One does not need to create a separate criminal offence, which is what is being done here....among disability service providers and others that they might be aiding and abetting the commission of criminal...Like Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, I think the amendments should be pressed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-08/31/
8 Jul 2014 - Deputy Joe Higgins I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following...are in the throes of very serious business here relating to the National Treasury Management Agency Bill...Agency, NAMA, which in turn has tens of billions of euro of bad debts for which the people have been criminally...are people who have expertise advocating for these groups, who represent the majority in society, the victims...of the profiteering that went on in the property bubble, the victims of the crash and the victims of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-10-03/19/
3 Oct 1995 - O'Dea I welcome this Bill....It is obvious, therefore, that there was a startling rise in the number of detected crimes committed...The then Minister for Justice, Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn, responded by referring this complex matter to...that she would do the decent thing and initiate legislation to ask the people whether they wanted to amend...The Bill proposes to do precisely what the Minister for Justice said it was right and proper to do in
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-07-16/5/
16 Jul 1971 - The Government do not like criticism, neither does the Minister for Justice....Sunday Press published a front page news item drawing to the attention of its readers the fact that the Criminal...Law (Amendment) Act, 1935, was being violated.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-03-12/24/
12 Mar 2013 - Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 provides that, subject...Criminal Court....The Penal Reform Trust made an interesting submission on the Bill....There is a strong link between homelessness, crime and reoffending....We must differentiate between different crimes.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-06-12/17/
12 Jun 1996 - Soldiers could be doing this duty while the gardaí deal with the crime problem, not just in Dublin but...The escalating crime level in all areas needs to be tackled....I am not being critical of the Department of Justice but someone in the force should have had the ability...force will not serve any purpose and will not be in a position to fight its case with the Department of Justice...one representative organisation which is unified in terms of purpose and the desire to deal with the criminal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-05-07/3/
7 May 1998 - Even when there is such support, it is rare that a Bill is not in need of amendment....Amendments could have been made to this Bill but the Minister has chosen not to make them....That is the effect of child sex abuse on one victim....whereabouts of convicted sex offenders and of valuable information in the investigation and prevention of the crime...The then Minister for Justice, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, promised to introduce her own Bill within two weeks
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1996-07-09/6/
9 Jul 1996 - Henry There is much merit in this amendment....to show that if long-term beds had been available, certain people might not have become involved in crime...We will not be dealing with major hardened criminals all the time — they manage to elude this kind of...situation — but with people who are referred to by those involved in crime as being disposable because...This psychiatrically vulnerable group, although criminals, are involved and many of them are dependent
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-12-03/26/
3 Dec 1987 - In respect of those Irish citizens — in many cases who have been the victims of a campaign of genocide...What is involved here is a simple amendment which is designed to ensure that the process of extradition...Deputy McCartan spoke about the fact that in criminal law there should be certainty and finality....not even a preliminary investigation but a procedure that will take place even before the question of criminal
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2007-02-06/7/
6 Feb 2007 - This Bill has been approved by the Attorney General....Several Senators asked whether it will be possible to appeal judgments of the military justice system...There is no difference between that and the ordinary criminal law....If it is not clear enough we may need to amend it....In ordinary criminal law there is no appeal to the President.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-22/118/
22 Nov 2006 - Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Mr....McDowell) I have been informed by An Garda Síochána that details of the activities of the Criminal Assets...Bureau are contained in the Annual Reports of the Criminal Assets Bureau since its establishment in...Disposal Orders under Section 4 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and Section 4A of the Proceeds of Crime...(Amendment) Act 2005 realised €2.02 million in 2005.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1996-05-02/3/
2 May 1996 - It seems that, in terms of natural justice, applicants for asylum should have the same right of recourse...They are not criminals but persons whose status in terms of asylum is to be determined....I wish to comment on how the amendment affects this section....This is not the way it is phrased in the Bill....I may table an amendment on Report Stage to insert a phrase of that nature.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-12-10/7/
10 Dec 2015 - the announcement by the Minister of Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, about the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill...Many colleagues in this House have called for this Bill. When will it be brought before us?...Can we have a debate on crime in the new year?...Commission report on search warrants has some very practical suggestions for greater efficiency in the criminal...justice system.
