Legislation

With the advent of the new vetting regime (for checking a person’s criminal background when working with children or vulnerable persons), there are now two ways in which an application for a vetting disclosure can be processed. The first is the same way as before, with completion …Read More

In this essay, the next in our series on the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 To 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as garda vetting – we’re going to check out what’s meant by the phrase ‘specified information’ …Read More

In this essay, the next in our series on the National Vetting Bureau (Children And Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 To 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as garda vetting – we are going to look at what it means to be a …Read More

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In this essay, the next in our series on the National Vetting Bureau (Children And Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 To 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as garda vetting – we are going to look at the National Vetting Bureau’s register of …Read More

In this essay, the next in our series on the National Vetting Bureau (Children And Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 To 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as garda vetting – we’re going to look at two aspects of the vetting legislation. First, …Read More

In this essay we take a look at a couple of situations that the vetting legislation specifically says fall outside of the remit of the vetting legislation. We look at family relationships, personal relationships, and also occasional assistance given by individuals. We look at the different …Read More

In last week’s essay we traced the winding path taken by the legislation from its genesis in a 2008 Joint Committee constitutional report on children, through to the heads of the bill in 2011, the bill becoming an Act in 2012, the stumbling blocks that the …Read More

In this next instalment in our series of essays on Garda Vetting and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016 (the “Act”), we’re going to take a walk along the path trodden by the Act in its legislative journey since 2011 up to …Read More

Scales of Justice
In our next series of essays, I am going to take us on a walk through of the National Vetting Bureau Act 2012 (the “Act”). Today’s essay will be a brief overview of this ground-breaking legislation, and sets out what we’ll be exploring …Read More