Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Deputy Jonathan O'Brien's support for our amendment No. 11. I hope the Minister will consider accepting the amendment which I signalled in the course of my Second Stage contribution on the Bill. We felt there was an anomaly in the Bill whereby a person who is a sex worker could have his or her assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau as a result of the legislation. We propose that money or any other form of remuneration or consideration that is paid or given to a sex worker in return for sexual services would not, by reason of the creation of the new offence, be deemed to be the proceeds of crime for the purposes of the Proceeds of Crime Acts 1996 to 2016. In effect, anything above €5,000 could be seized from a sex worker as the proceeds of crime.

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