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Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The appeal to the Supreme Court provided for in section 14 is intended to be available to both parties, the acquitted person and the Director of Public Prosecutions. In the case of the acquitted person, he or she may wish to appeal in the event of a retrial order being made by the court under section 10. In the case of the DPP, he may wish to appeal in the event that the court refuses to...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Dermot Ahern: The Senator is seeking to remove the criterion for an appeal to the Supreme Court by either party for an application for a retrial order. The criterion is long established, namely, that the court, the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions must certify that the determination involves a point of law of exceptional public importance and that it is in the public interest that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Discussion (18 Nov 2015)

Ms Joanne Hyde: I am the chairperson of the employment and equality committee of the Law Society of Ireland. I am accompanied by the vice chairman, Mr. Loughlin Deegan and another member, Ms Deirdre Malone. The employment inequality committee of the Law Society of Ireland is made up of a number of specialist lawyers in the area of employment and pensions. In making our submission I am...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank the staff for the work they have done on this matter. I counted 40 Acts, passed between 1922 and 1924, to be repealed. This indicates the dedication and commitment of the people who worked in the brand new Civil Service and State who were starting from scratch. There were also many more Acts passed in that short time which are still in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Reform of Family Law System: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2019) See 2 other results from this debate

Dr. Carol Coulter: I am grateful to the joint committee for the opportunity to address it. My experience of the family courts is twofold. I ran a project for the Courts Service between 2007 and 2008, reporting on private family law cases. For the past six years I have been running the Child Care Law Reporting Project which reports on public family law cases. It is important to emphasise...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: Two years ago, Deputy Jonathan O'Brien called for a comprehensive review of this emergency legislation. He said such a review "should focus on how to modernise the criminal justice system to make it responsive to the needs of Ireland in 2017". No review was ever conducted. We have seen little serious reform of our criminal justice system in the lifetime of this Government. Instead, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Dr. Clíona Saidléar: I echo what Ms Benson said. Women's Aid and the Rape Crisis Network Ireland work together with a number of NGOs and we are particularly concerned about how family law courts, in particular private family law courts, intersect with domestic and sexual violence. We are concerned based on what is coming to us with regard to sexual violence but is anecdotal and this is a...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Séamus Healy: I have never witnessed such a display of arrogance, dishonesty and double talk as I witnessed today from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. He has refused to accept any responsibility for the appalling vista that has opened up or any regret for the horrifying shambles surrounding the law on statutory rape. Last week the Minister told the House he knew nothing about the issue....

Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossessions (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: In light of the recent High Court judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Barrett in AIB v. Counihan on 21 December 2016 as well as in the light of the serious concerns expressed recently by the Master of the High Court, what assurances can the Minister for Justice and Equality give to families facing the repossession of their homes that she has done all in her power to protect them properly? Can...

Seanad: Communications Regulation and Digital Hub Development Agency (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 21, line 7, to delete “shall” where it firstly occurs and substitute “may”. These sections of the Bill are a matter of serious concern. I am surprised they have not got more attention. We are usually very careful of anything potentially seen as interfering with the separation of powers and the due course of our courts....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Professor Allyson Pollock: Most countries that have put in a national health service began from an imperfect base. The UK was no exception. It was highly fragmented. There was a patchwork of services with significant inequalities. For that reason, a law is needed that places on the Minister a duty to provide services throughout Ireland. That is the only way to overcome the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Professor Mary Donnelly: It is a very fair point that Professor Jones has made on the specifics of the American situation. It is a very different kind of model in general. In our situation, if we decided to introduce a measure, or to legislate for a measure, to accept that our citizens were entitled to that measure, then we would be required to ensure that mechanisms were put in place to...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: This morning, we heard the disturbing news that homelessness levels in Ireland have gone above 7,000 for the first time. Some 68% of this homelessness is in Dublin. As the Simon Community report published today reveals, 83% of property in the capital is now priced out of the reach of those on housing benefits such as rent supplement or the housing assistance payment. Home repossessions are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Irish Prison Service Bill and of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Bill: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Ms Sara Phelan: At the outset, I would like to extend thanks to the Chair and the members of the committee for their invitation to us, as representatives of the Bar Council of Ireland, to participate in this public session of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice to establish our views on the general scheme of the criminal justice (legal aid) Bill 2023. It would be somewhat remiss of me...

Seanad: An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I pushed strongly for "Yes" and "Yes" on the last referendums and was deeply disappointed with the results. It is probably one of the biggest votes for inequality since the citizenship referendum. I do not believe that was the intention of all those who voted "No" but that is the effect. The care proposal was disappointing but I look to everything on balance. I weigh up my positions. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Ms Noeline Blackwell: Deputy Boyd Barrett is absolutely correct about the whole business of inequality and the feeling that one is up against a big, powerful organisation. That is a real problem of the legal aid system in general. The legal aid system could give assistance in the Circuit Court but because of delays and the rest of it, may not and is prohibited by law from giving assistance...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I can understand the effort by the Senator to have this principle discussed but this has been examined in recent years and the strong conclusion is that there are constitutional impediments to full separate legal representation for a complainant during the duration of a trial. The weight of legal advice available to the Department is that full separate legal representation would tilt the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Equality and Fairness of State Pension: (Resumed) Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Mr. Fergus Whelan: I will answer the second question first. It is even bigger than that. The industrial relations aspect comes from a far more fundamental thing in law, that is, legitimate expectation. There is a thinking in law whereby if an employee pays for something on the basis that he has been told this is what he will get, then he has a legitimate expectation. This proposition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Ms Ailbhe Smyth: Action on X welcomes this opportunity to make a presentation to the Joint Committee on Health and Children and to contribute to this public discussion on the issue of legislating for abortion in Ireland. This is, in many respects, a historic event, not least for those of us who have been seeking to achieve reproductive integrity autonomy and choice for women in Ireland...