Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 April 2003

I was taken by the force and emotion of Senator Ormonde's reflections on parental responsibility. I would not agree with her on putting parents in jail, but we need to think of the needs of children, particularly those who come into contact with the law at an early age. Some of these are very difficult children. It is also difficult to get the resources mobilised to deal with them. There may well be jurisdictional difficulties and clashes in legal interpretation, but that might be done on a North-South basis by providing one decent facility on the island.

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