John Gormley
Ceist:320 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of barring orders granted in the Dublin Family Court for each of the past ten years. [26518/98]
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320 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of barring orders granted in the Dublin Family Court for each of the past ten years. [26518/98]
Statistics on the number of barring orders granted by the Dublin Metropolitan District Court during the last ten years are set out in the following table:
Year |
Number of barring orders granted in the Dublin Metropolitan District Court |
01/08/89 - 31/07/90 |
607 |
01/08/90 - 31/07/91 |
655 |
01/08/91 - 31/07/92 |
657 |
01/08/92 - 31/07/93 |
581 |
01/08/93 - 31/07/94 |
747 |
01/08/94 - 31/07/95 |
744 |
01/08/95 - 31/07/96 |
822* |
01/08/96 - 31/07/97 |
735* |
01/08/97 - 31/07/98 |
644* |
321 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the proposals, if any, he has to allow access to the family courts for granting a barring order to persons who are affected by a decree of nullity and fail to qualify as cohabitants, cohabitants who do not satisfy the residence requirements or property entitlement requirements for a barring order, adult siblings who want a barring order, people who have a child in common but who have not cohabited and a parent who wants to bar an adult child but the property is owned by the adult child. [26519/98]
The law on barring orders was the subject of a recent comprehensive review which, I understand, took into account detailed consultations on the legal and constitutional issues involved. That review led to the Domestic