James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These are proposed amendments to section 30, which, as published, amends section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1999 to provide for the arrest by the Garda of a child in detention on a detention order or on remand in a children's detention school for questioning in respect of an offence or offences other than those for which he or she is in detention or on remand.

The amendments proposed would bring within the category of persons who may be arrested for questioning, in connection with offences other than those for which they are on remand or in detention, children currently detained or remanded in St. Patrick's Institution or a place of detention. The amendments proposed include a number of amendments to definitions in section 30 and consequential technical amendments required to bring this cohort of persons within the application of section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1999.The effect of the amendment is to bring the cohort of children currently on remand or detained in adult facilities within the remit of section 30 of the Criminal Justice Act 1999 for a limited period pending the accommodation in a children detention school of all children remanded or detained.