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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/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: 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: 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: 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/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/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: 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: 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/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/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: 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/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/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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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/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/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: 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/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: 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: 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: 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/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/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: 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: 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: 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: 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/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: 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: 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/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: 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: 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/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: 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/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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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/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/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/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: 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: 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/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/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
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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: 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: 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/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: 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 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/1998-03-25/20/
25 Mar 1998 - If an action is unlawful it is of itself a criminal act, so it does not matter if the victim has consented...No person can licence another to commit a crime....Specifically, it is imperative that the law on bouncers be amended soon....I compliment Deputy Farrelly on introducing the Bill....Previous speakers have applauded the Bill but it is disappointing that the Government has not seen fit
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-02-11/3/
11 Feb 2021 - Minister of State at the Department of Justice (Deputy James Browne) I move: "That the Bill be now...The current law on counterfeiting is contained in Part 5 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences...Department of Finance officials have been actively engaged with the Department of Justice, the Central...It sets out the amendments to the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001 to give full effect...Sections 29 to 31, inclusive, provide for consequential amendments to other Acts arising from the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-06-28/7/
28 Jun 1995 - children and step-children violated by their adoptive father or stepfather are not treated as being the victims...has sexual intercourse with, say, his 17-year old adopted daughter is not deemed to have committed a criminal...to the Bill....Therefore, an essential part of amendment to the Bill is that we deal with that procedural aspect of...There is a need to examine the crime of sexual abuse, but I think the Law Reform Commission got it wrong
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-03-06/20/
6 Mar 1996 - O'Malley I am pleased to see this Bill before the Dáil....regrettable that the Government and the Minister for Justice, who had made such heavy weather of her...measure that is so obviously needed, that is well prepared and which, if it has any defects, is open to amendment...Quite some time ago I was Minister for Justice and I recall the atmosphere of the times, both inside...The present Minister for Justice, whatever woes she may feel have befallen her, finds herself in the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1973-07-25/11/
25 Jul 1973 - This Bill does three very good things....So much for the actual text of the Bill....As I have said, for a Bill so short it contains three very important and very welcome amendments to the...criminal procedure....It is a long time since we had a White Paper from the Department of Justice—the early 1960s.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2013-07-02/14/
2 Jul 2013 - I compliment the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on its recently published report and...The amendments made by the Dáil, particularly the amendment to section 4, are very positive....alarmed to read during the week the comments of PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggot on the proposed national crime...agency in the North to combat crime, including trafficking, across the Border....The Chief Constable said lives would be put at risk by curtailing the powers of the national crime agency
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-10-07/4/
7 Oct 1999 - Ryan I too welcome the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Bill....I cannot understand how an intelligent woman can argue against this man being charged with crimes he...Could we charge people who committed crimes prior to the implementation of this Bill?...Whereas Pinochet has been caught, what can the UN do about crimes such as this?...I welcome the Bill and ask the Minister to respond to my point about Pinochet.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-27/5/
27 Oct 2005 - I also strongly support amendment No. 14 and commend Deputy Cuffe for proposing amendment No. 12....McGrath receives the full support of Members of the Oireachtas to bring this miscarriage of justice to...is talking about human rights and the rights of prisoners, one must not lose sight of the rights of victims...It is vital that the voices of the victims are heard....The victims of that atrocity are constantly pleading with the Government and the British Prime Minister
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/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: 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/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: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2010-01-14/2/
14 Jan 2010 - the Minister of State has not seen it, I would ask that he look at it before the completion of the Bill...difference in the current section 42, dealing with the reporting of money laundering, and section 57 of the Criminal...Justice Act 1994....An amendment has not been tabled on Committee Stage but that is not sufficient reason for this to be...In the event of there being merit in the point made, I would support any amendment the Minister of State
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-09-03/6/
3 Sep 1998 - Costello I move amendment No. 17: In page 12, subsection (1), lines 38 to 40, to delete ", unless...He has now further committed himself to implement a Fine Gael amendment which sought an annual review...in the forthcoming Criminal Justice Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/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: 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: 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/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: 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: 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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-07-03/35/
3 Jul 2019 - Deputy Charles Flanagan I move amendment No. 37: In page 16, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the..., present an undue risk to the safety and security of members of the public (including the relevant victim...any, to which rules under section 2 of the Act of 1960, made before the coming into operation of the Criminal...Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners) Act 2003, applied, (f) the risk of the parole applicant committing...There was a section in the original Bill on giving comprehensive information, that is, section 18(2)(
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2004-07-07/9/
7 Jul 2004 - We had a good discussion on this Bill on Committee Stage yesterday....launched by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform....I acknowledge that the Minister of State is particularly active in the Department of Justice, Equality...State knows that when this matter came to public attention some years ago, the Government told the victims...clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin diocese so that the Government can honour its commitment to those victims
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/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
