Written answers
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Public Order Offences
9:00 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 582: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to introduce new laws to prohibit vagrancy and begging in public places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1324/10]
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I plan to bring new legislation on begging to Government for its approval to publish.
The new legislation arises from and will take account of the High Court judgement in the Dillon case. The Court held in that case that the current law, i.e. Section 3 of the Vagrancy (Ireland) Act 1847, was unconstitutional.
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