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13. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total expenditure incurred by the State on criminal legal aid in respect of persons aged under 18 years in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and the estimated amount of that expenditure attributable to juveniles who had previously been convicted of one or more criminal offences. [70303/26]
The right to defence is a key legal right in any liberal democracy to make sure individuals can challenge a prosecutor in relation to a particular case. However, how it is delivered is a key issue, and is a key issue at the moment. We have the ongoing battle between the Minister and both solicitors and barristers over this particular issue but we also have a high level of recidivism among young criminals. Does the Mi…
This is the "I do not know coalition Government". I asked a question earlier about security in IPAS centres and the Minister of State said, "I do not know."
Deputy Lawlor asked the Minister about the nationality of people in prisons and the Minister said, "I do not know." I just asked how much the State is spending in relation to young people receiving free legal aid, and the Minister of State said, "I do not know." How in the name of God is the Government meant to manage the taxpayers' money if Ministers' instinct is to be oblivious to the way they are spending it? For …
The Minister for justice is in a battle with the legal profession at the moment. It is one on which his reputation is dependent upon. We understand the Minister for justice seeks to be the Taoiseach of this country very shortly yet one of the issues the Minister is focusing on is one that the Department does not know. The reason I asked this question is that there are potential solutions to the battle the Minister is…
Has the Minister ever looked at the cost of a public defence office? Are there any feasibility studies? Is there any research happening in the Department in relation to that possible solution?
Over the last ten years, this Dáil has become increasingly distanced from the people it is supposed to serve. On a range of different issues, the political establishment is completely disconnected from its citizens. For example, 80% of the population wants a stricter immigration system but the majority of TDs in here oppose it. The majority of people opposed the referendum to delete mothers from the Constitution but …
People all around this country will be absolutely shocked by this budget. The biggest issue in this country for the past six months has been the price of energy and fuel. The streets have been filled with tens of thousands of people protesting the excruciating cost of energy. Public meetings have been jammed with thousands of people in hotel rooms across the country. Anybody who has been politically aware over the pa…
They are not, though. That is the problem.
The decision to allow the Orange Order to march down Garvaghy Road was the most destabilising decision that has been made in the North of Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement. Twenty eight years of improved community relations are now in jeopardy. The people in the North are in real fear. It is hard maybe for people in the South to understand that and the stress that has been created. There were 21 Catholics murde…
The British do.
The Secretary of State can change it.
I welcome this SLAPP Bill. Legislation on this issue is long overdue. I have been in the ear of a number of Ministers for justice for at least five or six years, looking for legislation in relation to this. I am glad the European Commission saw fit to begin infringement proceedings against Ireland last May for its failure to transpose the 2024 anti-SLAPP directive into Irish law.
SLAPP is among the worst forms of ab…
I was contacted by a woman whose husband has multiple myeloma. It is a type of blood cancer, and it develops in the plasma cells. She stated that her husband is cold throughout the whole winter. He needs help with the either fuel allowance, which he does not get, or lower fuel prices. Another man contacted me and said that they need two cars to get to work. They have to commute huge distances in extreme traffic every…
Cuirim fáilte roimh an gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha seo ó Independent Ireland inniu. A bill was presented to me this week by an 89-year-old woman who is a constituent in my county. She paid €860 for less than half a tank of home heating oil for her house. That is the equivalent of about three weeks' income for her. The amount of oil she bought is unlikely to do her until the other side of Christmas. That is an incred…
It has been reported to me by a worker in the national children's hospital that there are major problems with 400 bathrooms in the new hospital in terms of the insulation that was used. I have been told there will be massive delays while the defective bathrooms are being fixed and this will cost the taxpayer dearly. As we know, portions of the insulation used previously at the hospital were similar to those involved …
Will the Minister come back to me with specific details?
I move:
That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the withdrawal of the State from European Union legislative measures comprised in the Migration and Asylum Pact of the European Union; and to provide for related matters.
Six years ago, we in Aontú, called for a proper debate on the issue of immigration. We were the first party to do so in this House. We said very clearly that if there…
I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
This Bill is a three-card trick. It is dressed up as an effort to help people with disabilities and special needs but it is little more than a press statement in the form of legislation. It costs very little to produce and draft a Bill, but there is a cost to providing services and to providing the professionals needed to be able to deliver those services. The assessment of need system is under enormous strain. More …
Before I start, I want to mention two young people who have been killed on the roads in Meath in the past few months. Mia Lily Keogh O'Keeffe was a wonderful young girl. In her short life, she brought enormous happiness and love to her friends and family. She was gifted, creative and engaging with all who knew her. Her life was stolen from her. She was struck while walking her dog on a pedestrian crossing in Navan in…
There is a growing number of people who support full Irish independence. Polls show that the majority in this State believe that the people who live on the island of Ireland should make decisions over what happens on the island of Ireland. Brexit has shown that London neither cares nor knows much about the North of Ireland.
Irish independence and Irish self-determination are in touching distance of this generation. …
-----with his Government partners and also with his own party. Indeed, Fianna Fáil supporters came into our Aontú tent at the ploughing yesterday and stated that they were angry and frustrated with the fact that Micheál Martin is gutting such a core value of Fianna Fáil.
The Taoiseach has given many excuses as to why not to proceed with a unity campaign. At one stage he said that we have to have reconciliation first…
That is not correct.