Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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I move:

(1) That a select committee consisting of seven members of Dáil Éireann be joined with a select committee to be appointed by Seanad Éireann to form the Joint Committee on Child Protection to:—

—review the substantive criminal law relating to sexual offences against children;

—examine the issues surrounding the age of consent in relation to sexual offences;

—examine criminal justice procedures relating to the evidence of children in abuse cases;

—consider the implications arising from and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision of 23 May 2006 in the CC case;

—examine the desirability or otherwise of amending the Constitution to deal with the outcome of the CC case and-or to provide for a general right of protection for children;

—make such other recommendations on the protection of children as shall to the committee seem appropriate;

the committee shall report back to each House with recommendations in a final report by 30 November 2006;

(2) The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Department of Health and Children and the Department of Education and Science with special responsibility for children shall be ex officio members of the committee and shall be entitled to vote;

(3) The quorum of the joint committee shall be four, of whom at least one shall be a Member of Dáil Éireann and one a Member of Seanad Éireann;

(4) The joint committee shall have the powers defined in Standing Orders 81(1) to (8) inclusive and 91(2);

(5) The Chairperson of the joint committee shall be a Member of Dáil Éireann.

Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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I move:

That the following members be appointed to the Select Committee on Child Protection: — Deputies James Breen, John Curran, Olwyn Enright, Brendan Howlin, M.J. Nolan, Jim O'Keeffe and Peter Power.