Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

Recently we had a report from the Irish Research Council stating that the Irish children's justice system is failing young people and causing many to enter into an endless cycle of offending often resulting in inappropriate custodial sentences. We read in today's newspapers that the Minister is going to the UN to trumpet the Irish system of dealing with children in the justice system as exemplary. What he is proposing is to dilute——

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