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very much for her question. I am committed to trying to ensure that the situation that operates at present, where counselling notes are routinely provided to the legal team of an accused, comes to an end. I brought forward proposals to the version of the miscellaneous provisions Bill … this House and some of the important stakeholders have said, and I am going to introduce a statutory form of non-disclosure for counselling notes. The Deputy’s question asks that I should ban them completely. In listening to people, be they in this House or stakeholders

credibility to David French and others who have campaigned for it. It has been a long time coming but we need much more legal change in the area of gender-based violence. While I welcome this Bill and also welcome the fact that other Bills such as Jennie … misogyny in the court system. It is something that has come up, and I know that the Minister is dealing with the counselling notes issue, and we had a debate only the other day on this. Survivors and therapists were hugely upset and disappointed after that committee meeting

introduce amendments to the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2025 on Committee Stage which will ensure that the Bill delivers, in a practical and legally robust manner, the policy objective of providing protections for cancer survivors in accessing mortgage protection insurance cover for their principal private residence. A cancer … programme for Government commitment to legislate in this area. Following detailed analysis and extensive engagement with stakeholders, including the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, the Central Bank, the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, Insurance Ireland, the Irish Cancer Society, the Irish Society of Medical Oncologists and the Society

Forces charged with, or convicted of, serious criminal offences. There has been extensive engagement between the Department and the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel on the drafting of the Bill, and the Minister intends to bring the Bill to the Government for approval shortly. As previously outlined … Council. Had the mandate for UNIFIL not been renewed - as was the case for a short period of time - Ireland would have been legally obliged to plan for the immediate withdrawal of Defence Forces personnel from that mission. Similar issues arise in respect of other operations, with concerns

these definitions in the principal Act or from what was proposed in section 2 but, rather, enhances them in the interest of legal clarity and ensures compliance with the 2017 directive on combating terrorism in respect of the acts required to be codified as terrorist offences … State. While the definitions as they currently stand in section 4 of the principal Act provide for this, it was advised by parliamentary counsel that rewording was needed in the interests of clarity and precision. The amendment also expands the definition of terrorist activity to include making

register; Valerie's law for the removal of guardianship rights of those convicted of killing partners; and laws to restrict the disclosure of counselling notes in sexual assault court cases. The Minister is pushing the outer limits of legislation to give protection to women and to deal with … additional funding or ring-fencing funding for any specific purposes. We are open to any constructive proposals on that. We have modernised the legal framework to better protect victims. The engagement of the Family Courts Act 2024, the Criminal Justice

publication gives rise to the reasonable apprehension that the commission of a terrorist activity could thereby result. The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel has confirmed the revised text affords greater protection to someone exercising their right to freedom of expression than the current section 4A, which simply refers … apprehension that someone might as a result of such publication commit a terrorist act. The use of a reasonableness test is an objective legal standard used in law to prevent against arbitrary or irrational interpretation, assessing circumstances against a hypothetical reasonable person's response or action. I assure

Finance could control each element of the system and ensure that each transaction was rubber-stamped by Revenue, regardless of whether it was legal or not". That is hard to understand. I now refer to a Revenue Commissioners' Collector General receipt, dated 21 February 2015, notice No. 0973138/001310 … attempt to use this dissolution as a way of dissolving responsibility. The people affected by NAMA and the citizens deserve closure, support, counselling and to have some modicum of their lives back. Transparency is essential but it is a very scarce item in this House with this Government

Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the amount paid in each year since 26 April 2023 to external legal firms, counsel, expert witnesses, guardians ad litem, advocates or other professionals arising from High Court proceedings concerning contested care placements, nursing-home admissions, delayed hospital discharge, capacity

Legal Aid Board to develop a methodology to estimate the full cost of legal aid services provided to international protection applicants, including pay, law centre overheads, administrative costs, private practitioner costs, counsel fees, interpretation, translation, medical reports and related service-delivery costs; and if he will make