Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

On promised legislation, I tried to get an answer to this previously on Taoiseach's Question Time. The Council of Europe has recommended we should have tougher laws on trafficking or extraordinary renditions. There is legislation in train from the Department of Justice, Equality and Reform which is slightly wide of the mark — the criminal justice trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation of children Bill. I know the ISPCC would be interested in it, but it does not have a date. Will the Government apply itself to addressing the concerns of the Council of Europe that Ireland is a happy hunting ground for foreign security services? We need a criminal justice Bill which deals with this because of the extraordinary renditions going through Shannon.

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