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Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2019
- Sponsor
- Jim O'Callaghan · Fianna Fáil
- Introduced
- 10 Apr 2019
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2020
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends Domestic Violence Act 2018 to create Domestic Homicide Reviews: formal inquiries into deaths from domestic violence, abuse or neglect when the offender dies before prosecution concludes.
- Minister, Garda Commissioner or High Court can order reviews conducted by independent reviewer; six State bodies (gardaí, Policing Authority, Probation, Tusla, HSE, departments) must cooperate and share information.
- Reviews identify circumstances and lessons learned; reports given to victim's family and published unless inappropriate; reviews cannot assign blame or interfere with ongoing criminal investigations.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 32nd Dáil10 Apr 2019
Debates
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