Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of the Civil Liability (Amendment) (Prevention of Benefits from Homicide) Bill 2017
Professor John Mee:
The Bill as drafted provides that a murderer cannot benefit from a pension but it includes the phrase "in which the victim had an interest". If that phrase is deleted, the provision provides that a murderer cannot benefit form a pension. I am not sure if that is going too far but it does specifically address the question of pensions. The New Zealand legislation does that. I think that is doable in legislation.
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