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In July 2018, Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan announced the intention of the government to hold a referendum deleting Article 41.2 from the Constitution. [8] This was to be held on the same day as the 2018 presidential election and a referendum to remove the offence of blasphemy. However, a decision of the Joint Oireachtas ...
8 March The report of a 20-year survey by The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland revealed that 56% of Ireland's native plant species are in decline due to habitat loss, altered grazing pressure, and degradation (re-seeding, over-fertilising, nitrogen deposition, herbicides, soil drainage, mineral enrichment), rather than rising temperatures whose botanical effects – so far – are minor.
The Minister for Justice (Irish: An tAire Dlí agus Cirt) is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland and leads the Department of Justice. The Minister for Justice has overall responsibility for law and order in Ireland. [1] The current Minister for Justice is Helen McEntee, TD.
31 December – Hate crime legislation came into effect when the minister for justice Helen McEntee signed the commencement order for the Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act 2024. Ireland was one of the last countries in the European Union to enact such law. The Act joined the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 which penalised hate ...
Date Effect 2 June 1924 Establishment of the Department of Justice [9] 1 January 1983 Transfer of Adoption to the Department of Health [10] 3 February 1993 Transfer of Civil law reform, civil legal aid and the family mediation service to the Department of Equality and Law Reform [11] 8 July 1997
The 32nd government of Ireland (27 June 2020 to 17 December 2022) was led by Micheál Martin, leader of Fianna Fáil, as Taoiseach, and Leo Varadkar, leader of Fine Gael, as Tánaiste. It lasted 906 days. The 33rd government of Ireland (17 December 2022 to 9 April 2024) was led by Varadkar as Taoiseach and Martin as Tánaiste. It lasted 480 days.
Charles Flanagan (born 1 November 1956) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality from 2017 to 2020, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence from 2020 to 2024, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2014 to 2017, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs from May to July 2014 and Chair of the Fine Gael parliamentary party from 2011 ...
[27] [28] [29] What was the Minister of Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan and others claimed the 25 November 2018 fire at a hotel-turned-direct provision centre a week before 100 asylum seekers were going to move in was arson. [30] Anti-immigrant members of far-right groups were involved in some of the protests. [31]