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Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Sections 77 to 82, inclusive, agreed to.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

SECTION 83

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 15 to 46, inclusive, and 56 to 58, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 15: In page 75, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(a) in section 2, by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1D): “(1E) A reference in this Act to a justice shall, where the context so admits, include a reference to a judge of the Family Circuit Court.”,”. Section 83 of the Bill provides for...

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am around long enough to remember when courthouses were the responsibility of local authorities, which did not really want them. Courthouses were run down because of the lack of finance and resources going into them. There are many things we could vote against or criticise but this is constructive and positive. It is important to separate out family courts. This is a very good start....

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I warmly welcome this Bill and thank the Minister for her determination in bringing it this far. The Ceann Comhairle can take a lot of credit for allowing the discussion that brought about this situation to take place. Legislators cannot legislate, even for the courts, unless they can discuss the legislation in the Legislature. I therefore thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing that debate...

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the Bill. It is very important that we have proper facilities and that family court proceedings, which are often difficult, can be carried out with dignity and respect for those involved. I support the Bill.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I congratulate the Minister on having achieved such unanimity.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I think there is unanimity. I thank colleagues for the general broad support for the Bill. As I have said many times before, the overall objective of the Bill is to make sure that we can, insofar as possible, make what is often the most difficult time a family will go through that little bit easier by putting in place these structures, making our family courts...

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Section 1 agreed to.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

SECTION 2

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 1, 4 to 13, inclusive, 52, 55, 59 and 60 are related and may be discussed together.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 1: In page 10, to delete line 26. This series of amendments, including some related technical and consequential amendments, provides for the substitution of the provisions relating to the mechanisms of the making of family court rules and for certain practice and procedural matters in the family court divisions. While it was originally proposed when the Bill was...

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Pa Daly: As the Minister said, we are mostly dealing with technical amendments here and we will support this Bill. Legal reform and the construction of a dedicated family law court for Dublin are important but any credible family law plan must go further with supports and maybe the Minister should take a White Paper approach to the whole Bill. Not every issue before the courts can be addressed at...

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I too welcome any efforts made to reform the family law courts. Courthouses like those in Clonmel, Tipperary and Nenagh do not have the facilities for separation of families from criminal law, so they are all in the one building. That does not make for good, pleasant or easy management for anybody, but most importantly for the family. The Minister will say I am always critical but I...

Estimates for Public Services 2024: Message from Select Committee (5 Nov 2024)

Estimates for Public Services 2024: Message from Select Committee (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2024: Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (5 Nov 2024)

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Seanad Éireann has passed the Health Insurance (Amendment) and Health (Provision of Menopause Products) Bill 2024 without amendment.