Key recommendations
* Provide further information on specific measures taken to investigate allegations of the State’s involvement in “rendition programmes”.
* Investigate the increased drop in positive determinations for refugee status to ensure that applications are processed following due process.
* The committee is “deeply concerned” at overcrowding in prisons and calls for specific timeframes for the construction of new prison facilities and the ending of “slopping out”.
* Urgent measures needed to keep remand prisoners separate from sentenced prisoners.
* Establish an independent and effective complaint and investigation in prisons.
* The committee is “gravely concerned” at State follow up to Ryan report and calls for implementation of the report’s findings and the prosecution of perpetrators of abuse.
* The State should carry out a statutory investigation into allegations of torture and inhumane treatment of women in the Magdalene laundries. It should prosecute and punish the perpetrators of the alleged abuse in appropriate cases and provide redress and compensation to the victims.
* The State should build without delay the proposed new national children’s detention facility at Oberstown in order to end the detention of children at St Patrick’s Institution.
* The State should make all forms of corporal punishment in the home an offence and organise an information campaign for parents.
* Legislate to clarify the scope of legal abortion in Ireland.