Showing results 1 - 10 of 17 for the category: Justice.
Funding People with Disabilities Ireland, National Women’s Council
Call to review disability sector There were further echoes to the end of government funding for People with Disabilities Ireland (PwDI), covered in earlier bulletins. In the Seanad, Martin Conway (FG, Galway E), reiterated that what was needed was an…
Waiting lists for civil legal aid
Michelle Mulherin (FG, Mayo) raised the issue of the lengthening waiting lists for civil legal aid, the numbers rising from 1,681 people in January 2009 to 4,500 this September (Dail Eireann, Debates, 15th December 2011, 360-2). 74% of these cases,…
Review of Joint Policing Committees
The Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter, told Jonathan O’Brien (SF, Cork NC) that that the review of the Joint Policing Committee was now well advanced in preparations to contact all members in the coming weeks to ascertain their…
Appeal for action on begging
Several senators raised the issue of begging. John Kelly (Lab, administrative) told of how he was approached every night by two, three or four more people (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 4th October 2011, 503). One night last week, he was approached…
Children in prison
Ivana Bacik (Lab, Dublin University) raised the continued detention of children in St Patrick’s Institution (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 6th October 2011, 662-4). It was a medium security building dated to 1850 and the government had given a commitment to close…
Joint policing committees review and white paper on crime
The Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter, told Dessie Ellis (SF, Dublin NW) that his department was engaged in a major consultative exercise that would lead to a white paper on crime (Dail Eireann, Debates, 20th September 2011, 835). …
Recognition of Travellers as an ethnic group
The Minister for Justice & Equality, Alan Shatter, told Gerald Nash (Lab, Louth) that the Traveller Policy Division of his department had held discussions with five national Traveller groups about the issue of the recognition of the Traveller community as…
Complaints systems for people living in direct provision
The Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter, told Caoimhghin O Caolain (SF, Cavan Monaghan) that the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) was satisfied that the structure of complaints contained within the current house rules for residents in direct provision…
Joint Policing Committees
The Minister for Justice & Equality, Alan Shatter, informed the Dail on the progress of the Joint Policing Committees, which involve voluntary and community organizations (Dail Eireann, Debates, 18th May 2011, 744). They had now been established in all…
Joint Policing Committees
The Minister for Justice & Equality, Alan Shatter, told Jonathan O’Brien (SF, Cork NC) that he had begun a review of the system of Joint Policing Committees, which provided for participation of the voluntary and community sector (Dail Eireann, Debates,…
