{"id":181823,"date":"2025-10-01T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181823\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:44:08","slug":"counselling-notes-are-used-to-undermine-victims-hazel-behan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181823\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselling Notes Are Used To Undermine Victims &#8211; Hazel Behan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 30 September 2025 16:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68dbf61ae17ce.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A bill put forward by TD Ruth Coppinger aimed at banning the practice has started.\n        <\/p>\n<p>TDs and senators are hearing from those calling for the use of counselling notes in sexual assault and gender-based violence trials to be banned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Oireachtas Justice Committee has begun scrutinising a bill, tabled by TD Ruth Coppinger, to outlaw the practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those addressing the committee this evening are the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the charity One in Four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rape survivor and campaigner, Mullingar&#8217;s Hazel Behan also had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 30 September 2025 16:24 A bill put forward by TD Ruth Coppinger aimed at banning the practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,30256,26127,137,30259,30257,2289,30255,514,515,30253,30254,44,13547,1195,30258],"class_list":["post-181823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-health","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}