Results 2,741-2,760 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if in relation to charges levied on people in receipt of in-patient services on premises where nursing care is provided on a 24 hour basis on those premises, the charges will be varied to take account of regular weekends and holidays spent by the patient in the family home or if the full charge of â¬120 is to be levied irrespective...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That is true.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The offence we are seeking to re-enact this evening has had a curious legislative history that I had the opportunity to re-examine today. It seems, when one reads over the enactments, to have been characterised by some fundamental errors as to its purpose. It is, however, a serious offence â the offence of soliciting or importuning a child for sex. It is an offence which I do not believe...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I may oversimplify the matter but we need to get it clear before Committee Stage because we are expected to draft amendments to the Bill. I am advised that defences are put into Acts which create offences not just because they are required by the Constitution but so that we in this House, the elected Members of the Oireachtas, can define the substance of those defences, instead of leaving...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I do not believe the Minister does either.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: What happens when we change the Constitution to put in the ability to have a zone of absolute protection?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Can we alter that order because we are running early?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That is fine.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I support the general principle that this is a difficult way to make law. When the Labour Party pointed out the loophole last week the Minister acknowledged fairly speedily that it needed to be addressed and we want to facilitate it. The Minister has chosen yet again to go further than simply plugging a loophole. I do not wish to sound smart but lifting a portion of the Fine Gael Bill and...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Minister obtain an explanation as to why the number of prosecutions began to fall?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: It is fair to ask why it happened.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: There are 70 years' worth of Acts.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 30, to delete "inserted" and substituted "as substituted". This amendment is merely technical in nature. I do not propose to delay proceedings and I merely offer the wording in the amendment as a better alternative to that contained in the Bill.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: There were more than 30 convictions in 2000.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Were the children prosecuted?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: There cannot have been that many. I would have thought that it might be childrenââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The point I made is that it never had that meaning.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The position was crystal clear after 2001.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I welcome that.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Less.