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Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The discrepancy we are trying to remove inserts this on the other side. There is a second element to this. There is a Supreme Court case which is looking at murder as it applies to a child. Apologies that I did not say this earlier but this particular case has the potential to require further changes in legislation. The Children Act is being worked on at the moment, and there is an...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I am trying to follow the Minister's logic. We can only deal with the law as is and the laws we are creating, not what might come down from another judgment of the superior courts that might have implications for the law. My difficulty with this, to follow the Minister's logic, is that any child under the age of 18 who is convicted of murder and sentenced in court cannot, under the 2001...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The objective of the Bill is to provide that level playing field and that equality. Where the 2001 Act is silent is specific to murder, so by including the amendment, where we are specifically referencing murder to the aged-out child, where it is not specifically referenced to children in the 2001 Children Act, and I appreciate this is where we are talking about-----

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: To clarify, Minister, it is the use of the term "murder" as distinct from the sentence.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: There is no specific reference. The 2001 Act is silent on murder.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is the use of the word "murder".

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: It is the use of that. It does not exist, so to disapply it for the aged-out child brings it onto a level playing field and brings it back to where it was. I am not saying we should not have on the Statute Book something specific about murder as it relates to children but it does not currently exist. Applying the amendment as it stands inserts something specific to murder for the aged-out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increasing Employment Participation for Persons with Disabilities: Disabled Persons' Organisations Network (25 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: One of my first questions was going to be to ask whether there is a shortage of ISL interpreters in Ireland. In his comment that there are 140 of them in the country, Mr. Sherwin indicated there is a shortage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increasing Employment Participation for Persons with Disabilities: Disabled Persons' Organisations Network (25 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: I received an email today from a parent of a young lad who is in college and is deaf. Sometimes an ISL interpreter is available but sometimes there is none. When no interpreter is available, he has a note taker and that takes away his independence. I do not know whether the problem is that the college fails to make the effort to book all the time or whether it cannot get an ISL...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increasing Employment Participation for Persons with Disabilities: Disabled Persons' Organisations Network (25 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: The point Mr. Sherwin has made has been made by many people who have come before the committee. They are often the only unpaid person in the room but they are the experts in the room. Some smaller DPOs that have been formed are told to get charitable status and then they can apply for various forms of funding. They say they are not charities but disabled people advocating for themselves....

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is not right either because-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: I assure Deputies Collins and McGrath-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----it is a Government Department.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: -----that there will not be any additional costs for SMEs due to the passage of this Bill. I reassure them that, as Minister of State with responsibility for this matter in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, my commitment is to reducing bureaucracy and unnecessary red tape and making it even easier to do business here in Ireland. We heard statistics earlier from a...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)

Section 1 agreed to.