Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2024-09-25
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Brendan Howlin (LAB), Wexford

I do not reference murder. Where the Minister's proposals in her Bill apply, my amendment seeks to leave it up to the court to determine what the appropriate order or sentence is. This is the difficulty I have. You cannot have equality between a person aged under 18 and a person who is 18 or older. That is not possible because the Children Act no longer applies to that person. Somebody aged under 18 cannot be committed to prison. The aged-out person can be committed to prison. There is no equality there. That is the reality, is it not?

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Sitting date: 2024-09-25