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- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)
James Browne: ...into a life of crime. Two programme for Government commitments are being delivered through this Bill. The first is to legislate against the coercion and use of minors in the sale and supply of drugs and, second, to criminalise adults who groom children to commit crimes. This new legislation will outlaw the grooming of children into crime. For the first time, it will be an offence for...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: ...in the morning include the mothers in Cherry Orchard who go and do three cleaning jobs in the day so that they can buy the Canada Goose jacket for their child or the fancy designer runners so that some drug dealer does not do it in order to induce a child into carrying or holding drugs. How many times have we come across young people when they are asked to do this and this is what they...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)
Diarmuid Wilson: ...constantly at risk of being recruited and used by criminal networks throughout the country, according to a national survey of Garda juvenile liaison officers, carried out in 2020. A 2019 study of drug dealing and organised crime in Dublin's south inner city found that children as young as 12 were being lured into gangs. Dr. Sean Redmond, adjunct professor of youth justice at the...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)
Paul Gavan: ...long enough for a hardened criminal who will wilfully use a child for their own benefit? Other areas have sentences of up to ten years. Criminals need to know they will pay a high price for grooming. There is also the scourge of drug debt intimidation in the communities. Through fear, families are forced to pay this debt. Deputy Ward addressed this intimidation in his Coercion of a...