Showing results 11 - 17 of 17 for the category: Justice.
Prison conditions
The Minister for Justice & Equality, Alan Shatter gave details to Clare Daly (United Left Alliance, Dublin N) onprogress in addressing concerns about prison conditions, especially over-crowding and slopping out (Dail Eireann, Debates, 7th April 2011, 638-9). Alan Shatter described…
Begging Bill in the Seanad
The Criminal justice (public order) Bill, 2010, passed the Seanad (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 26th January 2011, 363-373), being guided through by the Minister for Justice & Law Reform, Brendan Smith. The Bill was given support by Eugene Regan (FG, agricultural)…
Prison conditions
Overcrowding in the prisons was the focus of a short senate debate in November (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 11th November 2010, 693-704). Ronan Mullen (independent, National University) drew attention to an October report which found that Mountjoy was overcrowded, unsafe, unhygienic…
Legislation
The Child care (amendment) Bill [Seanad], 2009 was debated on second stage (Dail Eireann, Debates, 5th October 2010, 312 – 333), concluded second stage (Dail Eireann, Debates, 7th October 2010, 777-793) and referred to committee. The Immigration, Residence and Protection…
Referendum on children
The Taoiseach was questioned as to the reasons for the delay in holding a referendum that would protect the rights of children (Dail Eireann, Debates, 30th June 2010, 11- 16; 29th June, 775-6). He told the Dail that the senior…
The new law on begging
The Dail debated a new law on begging, the Criminal justice (public order) Bill, 2010 (Dail Eireann, Debates, 25th May 2010, 57-70; 26th May, 404-8, 430 – 461)). Joe Carey (FG, Clare) referred to the numbers of people homeless in…
Progress on Joint Policing Committees
The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern, told Brian O’Shea (Lab, Waterford), that joint policing committees had now been established in 98 local authority areas (out of 114), representing 84% of the total (Dail Eireann, Debates, 4th…
