Seanad debates

Thursday, 27 February 2003

Suicide Incidence: Statements.

 

Every Tuesday evening in my constituency a group of about 30 or 40 men meet. They are very angry, bitter people. The reason they come together is because of their dealings with the courts. Many of them are young men with kids of one or two years of age. They are young fathers aged 18, 19, 20. They cannot get close to their children because they are not married to the mother. They cannot get housing from the local authority because they have no dependants, according to the State. They meet to discuss their situation in the courts. It is a very negative discussion. They believe that the courts are totally structured against them. They believe that the application of the law by the Garda is totally against them and that the experience they have is not being replicated.

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