Results 21-40 of 1,035,204 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Chris Andrews)
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: This is specific to the case because four or five current cases specific to this issue are potentially impacted. There will be-----
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Further change.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: -----possible further change but there are ongoing cases that need to be resolved before this.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: May I ask the Minister one more question?
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: If a child commits a particularly heinous murder - and we have seen some - and ages out, and is committed to prison for that terrible crime by a court, is it the Minister's view then that the same challenge could be available to them for that custodial sentence, as was available in the case of the recent High Court decision that gave rise to this legislation?
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: My understanding is that there are a small number of cases that this could be applied to but, again, case law suggests that would perhaps not be successful. The advice is despite the fact there are a small number of cases where this has been applied, there is a strong reason to move forward with this specifically. There are a small number of cases. That is not to say a case would not be...
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is Deputy Howlin going to press the amendment?
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I am actually still of the view that for consistency, we should have this in statute. What the Minister intends to apply should be determined by the Oireachtas as opposed to common law.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: I do not think we disagree but the very clear advice I have is that by doing this we will still have to come back-----
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have an irreconcilable situation.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I am not going to win the argument so I am going to withdraw the amendment.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Section 2 agreed to.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Sections 3 to 5, inclusive, agreed to.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Title agreed to.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister for that, and for that stimulating and important conversation as well.
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There are no amendments tabled on Report Stage.