Results 41-60 of 1,035,326 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Paul Donnelly)

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Bill received for final consideration and passed.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Bill will be sent to the Seanad. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: That was the easiest thing yet.

Messages from Select Committees (25 Sep 2024)

Messages from Select Committees (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the Agricultural Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024 and has made no amendments thereto. The Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has completed its detailed scrutiny of the Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021 and in accordance with Standing Order 178 has...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That is not possible.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: By using and specifically referencing murder where it does not exist at the moment, there is the potential to put in place a discrepancy on the other side of things. Our objectives are the same, but the legal advice I have is to comply with the High Court ruling. We need to change it.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I do not reference murder. Where the Minister's proposals in her Bill apply, my amendment seeks to leave it up to the court to determine what the appropriate order or sentence is. This is the difficulty I have. You cannot have equality between a person aged under 18 and a person who is 18 or older. That is not possible because the Children Act no longer applies to that person. Somebody...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The fact that it is silent on the type of offence in the 2001 Act, by disapplying it to aged-out persons they automatically fall under that category. However, by inserting the words "when he or she committed the murder", there is a specific-----

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: The 2001 Act does not apply to anyone over 18.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: By disapplying the mandatory life sentence of murder to this person, the person automatically falls back under this.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Under what?

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: It is going back to when the crime was committed, not when the person is being sentenced. That is what it is looking at.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I do not understand that.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The amendment specifically refers to murder, which is not referenced in the 2001 Act for children. Deputy Howlin's amendment would include that where it is not included at the moment.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I am not referencing murder at all.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The amendment refers to it. That is the challenge here.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Where in the amendment?

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The amendment states: “(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the sentencing of a person convicted of murder who was under the age of 18 years when he or she committed the murder but has attained that age on or before the date of such sentencing."

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That is taken directly from the Minister's Bill. That is a simple recitation of section (2)(b) of the Minister's Bill, where it states: “(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the sentencing of a person convicted of murder who was under the age of 18 years when he or she committed the murder but has attained that age on or before the date of such sentencing.”