As drafted, the Bill excludes convictions dealt with summarily in the District Court yet many domestic violence offences, including the offences of coercive control, assault causing harm and breaching a protection order, can be prosecuted either summarily or on indictment. Deputy Gannon's amendment, No. 1, asks me to include within the legislation a provision applying the legislation not only to convictions on indictment, that is, convictions in cases heard by the Central Criminal Court or the Circuit Criminal Court, but also to summary convictions.
As has been mentioned, Women's Aid has warned that many domestic violence-related offences under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act are prosecuted summarily in the District Court and, therefore, would not be captured by the proposed register.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Matt Carthy and Gary Gannon; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 39–99 |
| Question put: | Carried | 114–28 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 81–69 |
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