Dáil debates

Thursday, 23 March 2006

Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages.

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Joe CostelloJoe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

——for the Judiciary all over the country and for every citizen who may or may not have the beliefs of their childhood or do not understand exactly what the law states about this. They still will not understand and if the judge states in court that if a person is entitled by law he or she can affirm, the person will ask how he or she is entitled by law to affirm. The judge would answer that the Minister stated in the Dáil that it is one's beliefs that count. What if the person states his or her belief and that the law states something different,——

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