Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
2:00 am
Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
While the Bill protects procedural rights based on the person's age at the time of the offence, can the Department confirm that children will not be remanded or sentenced to serving time in adult prisons simply because of delays in the system that push them past 18 years?
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