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Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I might respond in one sentence to that but I wish to deal with this amendment. In the context of the definition, this is the only time we are going to get to discuss it. I believe the amendment we propose is of some additional assistance in addressing the issue of being more specific as to the nature of the substance. I was hoping the Minister would support it but I will not delay the...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is possible to do either.

Overseas Missions (7 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on whether a Defence Forces mission at battalion level should occur within 18 months; further failure to provide for such could damage the Defences in view of agreement (details supplied) that is lifeblood organisation; international contacts he has made, or had made behalf, bodies ensure participation mission; and if will make...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 431: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will grant the permission required to allow the school project team prepare the necessary documentation to apply to the local authority for planning permission in respect of a new permanent school building to the board of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18. [30801/10]

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "PART 2TREATMENT OF VICTIMS 4.—(1) Any person who deals with a victim (for example, a member of the judiciary, lawyer, member of court staff, member of an Garda Síochána or other official) shall— (a) treat the victim with courtesy and compassion, and (b) respect the victim's dignity and privacy, save...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: We have not yet been introduced. I suspect the reason the Minister-----

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----for Justice and Law Reform is not in the Chamber at present is that he is probably having a photo opportunity with the penguin in Dublin Zoo. We will discover that tomorrow, I presume.

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: It will be difficult for the media to notice the difference between the two of them. I will turn to more serious matters relating to the Bill. The amendments that have been tabled are all to do with the treatment of victims of crime. The provisions in the Bill seek to extend the use of victim impact statements to some victims of crime but not to all of those to whom it should be extended....

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: This is Report Stage.

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is not because of the penguins.

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I must take with a grain of salt the Minister's comment about how one can deal with matters pertaining to protecting victims more quickly through administrative arrangements. Fine Gael introduced a Bill in this House three years ago that would have addressed all the issues in respect of victims and would have addressed those matters that fall outside the victim's charter at present and which...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I knew the Minister was going to say that.

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I will put the amendment to enable Members to move on.

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: 5.—A victim or member of a victim's immediate family who has welfare, counseling, medical or legal needs arising from the commission of an offence or as a result of anti-social behaviour shall have access to services that are responsive to those needs insofar as resources are available.".

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "PART 3 INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN TO VICTIMS 6.—(1) A victim shall, as soon as practicable after the victim comes in contact with a State agency, be given information by the personnel of the agency about services or remedies available to the victim by such agency and by any other State agency and by any local...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: 7.—(1) A victim shall as soon as practicable, be given information by an Garda Síochána or, as the case requires, by the Courts Service Board or the Director of Public Prosecutions about the following matters: (a) the name of the member of an Garda Síochána who has the primary responsibility to...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: 10.—(1) This section applies to a victim of a sexual offence after a person accused of such offence has been convicted of the offence. (2) No court shall order that the anonymity of the person convicted of a sexual offence shall be protected where a victim to whom this section applies informs the court that...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister was right to point out that my colleague, Senator Regan, raised this matter in the Seanad. The amendment was first contained in Fine Gael's Victims' Rights Bill 2008. The Minister for Justice and Law Reform has had more than three years in which to consider this issue, but the thought process does not appear to have advanced far in that time. The Minister stated that the draft...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: How soon will the Bill be published?

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is extraordinary that, given the revelations about child sexual abuse, institutional abuse, abuse within the church and the number of alleged rapes that do not produce prosecutions, the difficulties that have arisen with regard to children, particularly young teenagers, who are preyed upon by older people - usually men - and the publication of a report by an all-party committee ably...