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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State for coming to deal with this matter. The sewerage system in Dublin, particularly in south Dublin, is Victorian. When I say "south Dublin", I refer to an area of Dublin around Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock and further south that experienced extraordinary development during the Victorian era. The sewerage system built at that time still services that area. They...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State. I acknowledge he is deputising for another Minister but that is a real pro forma answer. Talking about identifying bathing spots and when people use them by 24 March 2025 is a little bit of a nonsense. If Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council wants help identifying the places people are swimming, I will tell the council now. As to when people are...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I welcome the Bill. It is overdue. We did not need to wait until the High Court told us last month that this needed to be done. I drafted a Bill that came before the House in March 2023, namely the Criminal Justice (Juvenile Offenders) Bill, Bill No. 30 of 2023, which sought to do the same thing in a different way and went slightly further. The idea behind this Bill is simple. The...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Now.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1990 2. The Act of 1990 is amended by the substitution of the following for section 2: “Sentence for treason and murder 2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person convicted of treason or murder shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life. (2) Where a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: That senior counsel was clearly not practising criminal law because given the state of the fees in criminal law nobody complains about them. I hear what the Minister of State is saying. I do not agree but so be it. I do not propose to press the amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Amendment of Children Act 2001 4. The Children Act 2001 is amended, in section 151, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3): "(3) Subject to subsection (4), the Court shall specify, in its absolute discretion, which portion of a period for which a detention and supervision...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Application of section 99 of Criminal Justice Act 2006 4. The provisions of section 99 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 (as amended) shall apply to criminal proceedings involving a person who, at the time the offence was committed, had not reached the age of 18 years, as if the term "imprisonment" were...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: There is a temptation to press the amendment to see how the vote goes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The issue I wish to raise today relates to the foreign birth registry. This is in respect of children who are de facto Irish by dint of their parentage but who are born outside the island of Ireland. Specifically, I refer to grandchildren of Irish-born grandparents or the children of parents who were Irish at the time of their birth. It does not apply to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State. I agree with what he said in acknowledging the excellence of the Passport Office. I would never doubt that and it does exceptional work. I also acknowledge the fact the number of applications under the scheme has increased greatly, as the Minister of State said, from about 5,000 to about 35,000 per annum, a massive increase. It is not enough to say, however,...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 3: In page 14, line 3, to delete “a primary” and substitute “the paramount”. This amendment relates to section 8 of the Bill, which sets out the guiding principles for Part 2. In section 8(2), it refers to the principle in subsection(1) and section 8(2)(a) refers to "proceedings of which the welfare of a child is involved or likely to be...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I have heard what the Minister has said and I am conscious of the other amendments she has made, so in the circumstances I will withdraw it.

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: The Acting Chairperson acknowledged Deputy Coveney, who is in the Gallery. I would like to do so too. I also acknowledge councillor Jack White from Carrigaline, who is a councillor on Cork County Council. I know he has done great work recently with regard to the Occupied Territories Bill which is before this House at the moment. He may have been forgiven for coming into the Chamber...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I noted my opposition to section 68. The proposed section 68 within the Bill at the moment relates to family law proceedings where concurrent jurisdictions are conferred on the Family High Court, Family Circuit Court and Family District Court. It restricts an application from commencing family law proceedings in the High Court, unless there is a special reason for doing so. I am also...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I will be brief. Section 69 essentially confers an unlimited jurisdiction, monetarily, on the District Court. It specifically states that where there is consent, that is, where the court is satisfied that an agreement has been reached between the parties and they have consented to proceedings being in the District Court, the family District Court, without limit as to monetary jurisdiction,...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I had registered my opposition to sections 70, 71 and 72, which arise on foot of the need for the jurisdiction of the District Court to be expanded. I will not speak again, but it is convenient to come in now in relation to what the Minister said. If the Minister is not with me in terms of the issues that might arise from the enormous expansion of the District Court jurisdiction, then these...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I have already registered my opposition to this. What section 76 proposes to do is to amend section 10 of the Family Home Protection Act 1976 and therefore to confer on the District Court a jurisdiction it does not have at present. The Family Home Protection Act is massively important legislation that transformed the status of women in relation to family law proceedings because before that,...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 87: In page 64, to delete lines 33 to 40. This amendment relates to section 77(a), (b) and (c). It concerns the Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act 1976 and would amend it in a number of different respects, but would permit a District Court to make a separation agreement as a rule of court. Paragraph (c) confers jurisdiction on the District Court to...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 88: In page 66, lines 29 and 30, to delete “Subject section 69 of the Family Courts Act 2022 and subsection (4),”. If I may speak very briefly, this is a similar issue. However, the amendment relates specifically to the context of the land jurisdiction.