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Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is hardly likely to have happened in the city as Bishop Murphy was in charge and he was a long way from such nonsense.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Senator O'Rourke took a peculiar position on the first referendum.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise to the Leader for heckling. I welcome the Bill and apologise to the Minister on behalf of my colleague, the Labour Party spokesperson on justice matters, Senator Tuffy, who has been unavoidably delayed. As I recently told another Minister, I am more disorganised than usual. I apologise in advance if parts of my contribution are less coherent than I would wish. Several...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I do not want to get involved in an exchange which might identify the individual in question. However, I want to defend the then Bishop of Cork Michael Murphy who was not of that breed and was, in many ways, most enlightened, as I am aware in both a personal and public capacity.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: As a result of the publicity associated with the Stay Safe programme, a parents' meeting we held at the school was packed. The meeting scrutinised the programme in great detail and the overwhelming response of the largely female audience was that it was not nearly blunt, explicit or clear enough to satisfy parents. The idea that the introduction of the Stay Safe programme gave rise to a...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Stay Safe would not be in the style of a certain bishop of a diocese near Cork city. I welcome the Bill. At the risk of attracting the sort of headline I do not want, I am mindful of a letter written by the late Judge O'Leary about some issues in life and society and the apparent determination to create a climate in which people can be easily branded. It is in this context that I will...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I invite Members to consider how many of us——

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The normal procedure is for the Chair to warn speakers when they have one minute remaining. I got no such warning but I apologise for exceeding my time.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have no problem with that. There is no need for the Acting Chairman to get annoyed with me.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I was not objecting.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 20, to delete "inserted" and substitute "as substituted". I will not spend long on this amendment, as some of the others are more substantive. I am advised the word "inserted" should not be used and the appropriate legal term would be "as substituted". While I will not start a big row with as eminent a lawyer as the Minister, I have great faith in the...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister's belief in the consistency of parliamentary draftsmen is touching but it is not my experience.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "(3) A defence available under the Act of 2006 shall be available in respect of an offence under this Act.". As I think the Minister addressed this issue in his contribution on Second Stage I do not propose to pursue the amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following subsection: "(3) The Schedule to the Act of 2006 is amended, in the row relating to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993, in the third column of that row, by the deletion of "Sections 3 and 4" and the substitution therefor of "Section 3".". The Acting Chairman need only read out my name for the next...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Not at all. This amendment concerns the offence of gross indecency, which is a matter of controversy between my party and the Minister. The amendment attempts to restore an offence which has been deleted either by accident or design. That is the nub of the issue.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, paragraph (a), between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: "(1A) (a) A person commits an offence if— (i) he or she intentionally arranges or facilitates something that he intends to do, intends another person to do, or believes that another person will do, in any part of the world, and (ii) doing it will involve the commission of an offence under...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: From what I hear, he is better than the Government's draftsman.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: How does the Minister believe the offence of grooming, as distinct from the consequences of grooming, is illegal? That is what I do not understand. We do not have any dispute with all the other issues. The offence of grooming is the process of making contact maliciously with the intent of doing something else.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: At the risk of being beaten up by Labour Party lawyers, the Minister has a point in his argument about the amendment as it is drafted. I will deal with the consequences of this, I am well able for it. The Minister is conceding that grooming is not, per se, illegal in this country. That is a matter of concern. In party political nonsense I could beat the Minister over the head with this...