Sinn Féin will abstain in a Dáil vote today to extend the role of the Special Criminal Court for a year.
The review is currently underway and Deputy Kenny said he was hopefully it would recommend the changes the party hopes for: “And we expect that the review will be reporting very shortly and that progress will be made in having better and more strengthened legislation to deal with criminal gangs.”Nowadays the court is used mainly to deal with gangland crime when there are concerns that jury members could be intimidated and Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said this was why the party had changed its policy:
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