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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I understand the difference between dynamic alignment and mutual acceptable standards. Is it envisaged that an agreement would be that the European Union would accept UK veterinary standards or, more problematically, that it would accept EU standards and dynamic alignment adjusting for ever?

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Ten minutes is ridiculous for two motions.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: You are right, Deputy Smith.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Soft landings.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has recently reviewed the designation of South Africa as a safe country for asylum applicants; the number of other EU Member States that have designated South Africa as a safe country; the criteria used in evaluating safe-country status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38501/24]

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

Brendan Howlin: As would my amendment.

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)

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)

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)

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)

Brendan Howlin: That is not possible.

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)

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

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)

Brendan Howlin: I do not understand that.

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)

Brendan Howlin: Where in the amendment?

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.”

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

Brendan Howlin: I am restating the subsection the Minister has in the Bill in relation to a person convicted of murder who was under the age of 18. Whether my amendment is passed or rejected, that statement will be in the Bill and in the law. The only new thing is the new subsection which specifically states it will be up to the court to determine the order or sentence. The Minister said she cannot do...

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

Brendan Howlin: The Children Act cannot apply because it states that it applies to children under the age of 18.