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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-07/19/
7 Nov 1989 -
Children Bill, 1989: Motion.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
Children Bill, 1989: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-07/25/
7 Nov 1989 -
Children Bill, 1989: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-07/19/
7 Nov 1989 -
Brady) I move: That Standing Order 51 shall not apply to any discussion on the Children Bill, 1989.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/11/
8 Nov 1989 -
Children Bill, 1989: Committee and Final Stages.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/20/
8 Nov 1989 -
Children Bill, 1989: Motion for Earlier Signature.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-07/28/
7 Nov 1989 -
. - Children Bill, 1989: Committee and Remaining Stages.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/20/
8 Nov 1989 -
Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Children...Bill, 1989, on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
which has arisen as a result of the Supreme Court judgment of Thursday, 2 November 1989....The judgment of 27 July 1989 dealt solely with the pre-trial procedures of a trial itself in the District...the court reserved its judgment and its decision on these points were delivered Thursday, 2 November 1989...I want to assure Senators that the Children Bill, 1989 is not a replacement, nor has it been intended...I do not accept, therefore, that there is any need to try to spell out in this Bill the rights of children
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
in care as a result of the unanimous Supreme Court judgment of 2 November 1989, delivered on behalf...Referring to the Supreme Court judgment of 2 November, 1989, the Minister stated: While the court found...The Supreme Court in their judgment of 2 November, 1989 indicated quite clearly that the taking of a...much delayed Bill....A comprehensive new Children Bill would have obviated the need for action by the courts.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
On this Bill, we should recollect why we have not only this Bill but the many other Bills which preceeded...Cruelty to children is widespread....We have 800 children in care, four to five children every week going into care....This Bill is necessary, it is urgent....Bill of 1988, and we will be looking forward in this House to seeing this Bill and debating it in detail
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
In relation to the emergency Children Bill, I have a question to the Minister of State and it concerns...I welcome the commitment given by the Government to revive the 1988 Child Care Bill at Committee Stage...My point here is that while we are actually debating the emergency Bill it is important to realise the...consequences of this emergency Bill if it goes through....in 1989.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
This is a short Bill....We all know that there are over 800 children in the care of the various health boards as a result of...More than 800 children are in the case of health boards on foot of court orders....What we are doing is bridging a gap until the passing of the Children Bill of 1988....of the Child Care Bill of 1988.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
I certainly welcome this Bill....The 800 or so children who were in care were adequately looked after and nobody had any need to fear....and children in care....Early on many people who are fostering children and have children in care were very worried because the...It will be superseded by the new Child Care Bill, 1988.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-07/25/
7 Nov 1989 -
I am satisfied that this Bill deals with the difficulty that has arisen....that the Bill before the House does that....I want to assure Deputy Howlin and the House that the Children Bill, 1989, is not a replacement, nor...has it been intended as a replacement for the Child Care Bill, 1989....undoubtedly, part of a health board's function is "to provide for the reception or protection of poor children
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
Continuing with the Bill, we are looking at, a Leas-Chathaoirleach, we are really basically talking about...a Bill in relation to cruelty, or preventing cruelty to children....or the prevention of cruelty to children"....he is considering this archaic and inappropriate term be removed from each and every section of the Bill...a list of legislation, including such Acts as, for example, the corresponding Act of the Child Care Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
We warned then of the urgency of passing the Child Care Bill particularly in respect of the rulings in...the powers on the District Court to have a fit persons order made in respect of a child or to have children...the House, not least because up to 800 children were in what could have been termed a state of limbo...The implications for those children in care were enormous and, therefore, this Bill alleviates enormous...Nevertheless, we must now look forward to the introduction of the Child Care Bill to this House.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
for the 900 children who are in involuntary care....I might mention that there are in fact 2,500 children in care altogether and indeed many children in...for children....and there should be a Bill of Rights for children....children but we are also suggesting that a supervision order be put within the terms of the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-07/25/
7 Nov 1989 -
O'Hanlon) I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."...or the prevention of cruelty to children....The main purpose of subsection (4) is to apply the Boarding Out of Children Regulations, 1983, to children...placed in foster care under this Bill....Section 8 provides that the Bill is to be known as the Children Act, 1989, and that the Children Acts
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-11-08/10/
8 Nov 1989 -
The existing law in relation to child care is contained primarily in the Children Act, 1908....or the prevention of cruelty to children....The main purpose of subsection (4) is to apply the Boarding Out of Children Regulations, 1983 to children...Section 8 provides that the Bill is to be known as the Children Act, 1989 and that the Children Acts...large number of children who are in care.