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crime, as well as serving to reduce reoffending. This is an integral part of the work of the Probation Service, which established a restorative justice and victim services unit in 2018. Restorative justice programmes are available across the country and at most stages of the criminal justice process … provision of restorative justice in budget 2025, with an additional €4 million for the Probation Service, bringing the total budget to over €60 million. A key role of the Probation Service is to support the expansion of restorative justice and crime diversion programmes, as well as step-down

Bill. The statute law revision project is hugely valuable which has been going on for more than 20 years. When I worked as legal adviser to Enda Kenny TD, as he was then, when he was leader of Fine Gael in opposition, the first of these Bills … Attorney General and particularly in the Law Reform Commission, which does fantastic work. Credit is due to the Law Reform Commission. As a State agency, it delivers time and time again on what it says it will do. It delivers reports that bring common-sense solutions to these

modern, bespoke legislation. It is my view that it is now time to call time on the Offences Against the State Acts. Those Acts have served the State very well since they were introduced back in 1939 by my predecessor, P.J. Ruttledge. Their enactment and amendment was designed … threats the State faces today from paramilitarism have reduced and significantly altered. These changes should prompt a change of policy while also recognising that any legislation to replace the Offences Against the State Acts must maintain the legislative basis for an effective State capacity to deal with terrorism

because of where she was born and raised? I am sure the Minister of State would not do so. Yet, in a legal and democratic sense, we do exactly that to well over 700,000 passport holders in the North of Ireland. Irish citizens from the North … wrong lies on the shoulders of the people here. It is over 100 years since the Irish Boundary Commission. If the Minister of State knows her history, she will know that the Boundary Commission was just one in a long list of bitter blows against Northern nationalists

online services on a digital-by-desire basis, rather than to require or compel customers to use the online options. In designing and in delivering digital services, accessibility is always a key focus in the Department, with accessibility testing completed on all services being developed on our digital … provides for amendments to section 263 to allow a public services cardholder, at his or her request, to inscribe his or her date of birth on the public services card to enable the public services card to be used as a means of verifying age. The cardholder

expand our international options to drive even further the opportunities to travel, both in Europe, and for additional surgeries in the United States. At the moment we have the New York-Presbyterian Hospital and we have Great Ormond Street Hospital but CHI has gone through a tender process … House before. To support improvement, we have appointed a spinal patient advocate liaison co-ordinator. There is a patient panel for spinal services to try to improve communication. There are 14 members on that panel at the moment. A key worker, or patient advocate function, is also being

this area, as does my party, and I support a new model of care for gender identity services. I want to see an holistic, properly resourced, modern service that is safe, accessible and delivered closer to people in their own communities. I support an expanded role in primary … feels like to be delayed, dismissed or treated as if their reality is up for debate. If we want a service that works, we must build that service with the people who rely on it. Listening also means recognising the emotional aspect of their lived experience. When trans

Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has estimated that between 2016 and 2019 treating just five air pollution-related conditions cost the State over €56 million. Furthermore, research now shows that long-term exposure to fine-particle matter is linked to many conditions, including depression and anxiety. This … Another important measure is the provision of enhanced solid fuel registers for producers, retailers and transporters, ensuring that only compliant operators can legally trade. The Bill provides greater clarity about the function, appointment and powers of a registration body and the processes for registration, removal, appeals and transparency

Ireland's carbon tax is an integral part of the Government's response to the need to address climate change and meet the legally binding commitments established in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021. As annual increases in the carbon tax are implemented … operators, respectively, representing approximately 81% and 74% of the overall road haulage operators licensed in the State. The support scheme operated under the EU temporary crisis framework on state aid was adopted to address the economic impacts, in particular on energy prices, of the war in Ukraine

majority of member states to agree under the qualified majority voting, which Deputies will be aware. This would require other member states to give up existing quota shares. Any change to the relative stability would involve a loss for some other member states and, therefore, pose particular challenges … believe the outcome reflects the strong co-operation and unity of purpose between the eight member states whose fisheries have been most impacted by Brexit, with support from the remaining member states and the Commission. Another issue that is of interest today is Rockall. Deputy Mac Lochlainn

have had a central role in the developments that have brought us here today. Of course, this is not the first time the State has had to confront an appalling legacy of child abuse and a need to inquire into past failings. The Commission to Inquire into Child … early days. The commission also has discretion in its work with regard to whether any part of its investigation is subject to ongoing legal proceedings. It is important to say that the commission will also have a survivor engagement programme which runs in parallel with its formal investigations