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MINISTER FOR JUSTICE Frances Fitzgerald has said she is concerned about allegations that there was an inadequate response from State agencies to serious allegations of rape and sexual assault by a Polish woman in 2006.
The Irish Examiner this week reported on the case of Anna Bubula, who alleges she was held against her will, beaten, raped and sexually assaulted by a man at his apartment.
She has said medical staff failed to report the rape allegation to gardaí, gardaí did not follow up despite being at the scene when she was taken in an ambulance and there was no effort to collect evidence as part of the investigation.
Speaking in the Dáil in response to comments from Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin, the Justice Minister said she has a “profound abhorrence for sexual and domestic violence in all its manifestations”.
The reports regarding this case are indeed very serious and I am sure that all in the House will agree that they merit the most thorough investigation. Apart from the very brutal nature of the reported assault in this case there are disturbing allegations about a lack of response from state agencies including An Garda Síochána and the health services.
The minister said the woman wrote to her and the Garda Commissioner at the end of last year and she requested a full report from the Commisioner. A report is now being compiled and Anna Bubula has already attended a meeting with gardaí in relation to it.
Fitzgerald noted the Garda Inspectorate report last year raised some serious concerns about the treatment of domestic and sexual violence victims and recommendations on the back of this report are being implemented.
“It is essential that in this and all similar cases we do not lose sight of the paramount importance of supporting the victims of crime and ensuring that everything that can be done to assist them is actually done.”
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No state or semi state body should be selling land or any asset which is owned by the people of Ireland to foreign investment funds. We have vulture funds and cukoo funds that were given the red carpet when they arrived and the poorer people in society suffer while at the same time loop holes being left in place where they pay zero tax on profits. The land coillte is selling dosen’t belong to them it belongs to the people of Ireland. Can you imagine what the people who fought for Irish Independence would think of all this.
If anyone thinks this is a good idea. Look at it like this. The biggest lake in the UK and Ireland in Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland and its privately owned by one guy, Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury who lives in Dorset. How can one guy own a lake? Lakes and rivers should be the property of the state owned by the people of that country. Coillte are gonna go backwards doing the same with our forestry.
@Diarmuid O’Braonáin: We’ll see how long your comment lasts on here. Let that be an indication of the level of backwardness. The Windsor Family (royals) are in receipt of one of the largest payments for agricultural land under CAP.
Take 200million from the property tax or rainy day fund and buy the land for the Irish people or the Irish state.
Selling our land back to the English government would sell anything for money they have no loyalty
We should be fining the brits for stripping our land of our Native Oak not so long ago. Not selling off to them. Coillte is state owned. Let that sink in.
@cathalsurfs: One of the finest Oak forests in Europe was in the blackwater valley. The land was given to him by king or royal in charge. It was cut down and sold. The guy then built himself a big castle…. Lismore Castle…
Happy for any investment profit to go to the UK but the people who live here can’t buy a car in the UK without giving them 10k. Have to wonder who they’re working for.
This is not okay on any way.
Why are these guys always screwing us?
Pulp for election posters. We the people, have no say.
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