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- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Sections 3 to 5, inclusive, agreed to.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Title agreed to.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister for that, and for that stimulating and important conversation as well.
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There are no amendments tabled on Report Stage.
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Bill received for final consideration and passed.
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Bill will be sent to the Seanad. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Emer Higgins: That was the easiest thing yet.
- Messages from Select Committees (25 Sep 2024)
- Messages from Select Committees (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the Agricultural Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024 and has made no amendments thereto. The Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has completed its detailed scrutiny of the Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021 and in accordance with Standing Order 178 has...
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: That is not possible.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: By using and specifically referencing murder where it does not exist at the moment, there is the potential to put in place a discrepancy on the other side of things. Our objectives are the same, but the legal advice I have is to comply with the High Court ruling. We need to change it.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I do not reference murder. Where the Minister's proposals in her Bill apply, my amendment seeks to leave it up to the court to determine what the appropriate order or sentence is. This is the difficulty I have. You cannot have equality between a person aged under 18 and a person who is 18 or older. That is not possible because the Children Act no longer applies to that person. Somebody...
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: The fact that it is silent on the type of offence in the 2001 Act, by disapplying it to aged-out persons they automatically fall under that category. However, by inserting the words "when he or she committed the murder", there is a specific-----
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: The 2001 Act does not apply to anyone over 18.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: By disapplying the mandatory life sentence of murder to this person, the person automatically falls back under this.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: Under what?
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Helen McEntee: It is going back to when the crime was committed, not when the person is being sentenced. That is what it is looking at.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I do not understand that.