Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 12:

In page 23, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:

Amendment of Schedule 1A to Criminal Justice Act 1994

23Schedule 1A to the Criminal Justice Act 1994 is amended—(a) in Part 1—

(i) by the deletion of paragraph 1, and

(ii) in paragraph 6, by the substitution of “paragraphs 2 to 5” for “paragraphs 1 to 5”, and

(b) in Part 2—

(i) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 17:

17A. An offence under section 5 of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018.”, and

(ii) in paragraph 19, by the substitution of “16, 17 and 17A” for “16 and 17”.".

I am bringing forward this amendment to update certain references to corruption offences in Schedule 1A to the Criminal Justice Act 1994. That Act allows orders to be made for the confiscation of the proceeds of offences after conviction.

Paragraph (a) is a technical amendment. It deletes the references to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 from the Schedule. Paragraph (b) inserts a reference to an offence under section 5 of this Bill in Part 2 of the Schedule. This will allow a certain type of confiscation orders to be made where a person is convicted of that offence. I ask for the agreement of the committee to the amendment.